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Fig. 1 -
of radio intensity at 5.5 GHz, constructed with uniform weighting and cleaned with MFS-MS algorithm, showing the central 15' radio bright zone (RBZ) at the Galactic center. The rms noise is 8 μJ/beam with a FWHM beam (1.6" x 0.6", PA=11o) |
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Fig. 2 -
Galactic longitude is up) showing with dashed rectangles the regions containing the SE (lower-left) and NW (upper-right) "wings" that extend from the Mini-spiral arms, in the direction nearly perpendicular to the Galactic plane. the top image. |
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Fig. 3 -
and the CN molecular line image (red) observed with the SMA (Mart ́ et al. 2012). The combination results in a pink colo for the CND. Radio continuum emission from the Mini-spiral HII g as ın appears in light blue. |
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Fig. 4 -
image integrated over 1 Msec (Markoff 2010). Thecoordinate frames between the X-ray and radio images were aligned using a dozen X-ray compact sources with positions given by Muno et al. (2009) include Sgr A* and the Cannonball (Park et al. 2005; Zhao, Morris & Goss 2013). In this figure, the X-ray and radio lobes are oriented almost horizontally, or at a position angle of ~ -75o with respect to equatorial north. |
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Fig. 5 -
line indicates the direction of an X-ray feature (blue segment) that has been proposed to be part of a jet from Sgr A* (Li et al. 2013); the green vector line points to the tip of the "V"-shaped feature, SEblb-5, in the SE Lobe (c.f., section 3.4.2 and Fig. 8.). Download postscript - Figure 5 |
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Fig. 6 -
in the NW radio lobe with the FWHM beam of 1.6" x 0.6" (PA=11o). Also the radio counterpart of the compact X-ray source CXOUGCJ174538.0-285911 is marked with an open arrow. The inset at top left shows the head-tail structure of the southern arch of source "M", located in the region marked with open rectangle. The contours of this inset are 1 σ x (100, 150, 250, 400, 600, 850), σ = 8μ /y beam, and the beam is marked on the top-right corner. The bottom-right inset presents the radio image as contours (at 10μ Jy / beam) x 2n and n = 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, ..., 16) overlaid on the HST/NICMOS Pα image(color) (Wang et al. 2010). Both radio and Pα image have been smoothed with a circular Gaussian of FWHM 2". The equatorial coordinate frame in this inset has been rotated 15o (clockwise). The directions of the major axes of the radio streamers in the NW Lobe as well as the predominant axis of the amorphous blobs in the SW Lobe are marked by open arrows. |
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Fig. 7 -
of the NW Lobe, showing details of the structures that we refer to as "Smoke Rings" (SmR 1, SmR 2 and SmR 3, from right to left). Equatorial North is up. The FWHM beam is 1.6" x 0.6" (PA=11o ). No correction for primary beam attenuation has been applied. Bottom: The HST/NICMOS image of Pα emission Wang et al. 2010; Dong et al. 2011) corresponding to the same region. Minor differences between the two images can be attributed to foreground extinction features that affect the Pα distribution . The green circles mark two massive stars in the region, as discussed in the text. |
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Fig. 8 -
radio blobs in the SE Lobe. The FWHM beam of 1.6" x 0.6" (PA=11o). Top panel b: an HST/NICMOS image showing the Pα counterpart of the same region . The individual components are marked with their sequential numbers in both images. The inset at top-right shows an image of the SW Shell (marked in Fig. 5) in radio (color) and Pα contours) to verify the alignment between the radio and IR coordinate frames. The bottom eight panels show the details of individual components of the amorphous radio blobs (color) overlaid with contours of Pα emission that has bee smoothed with a 2-D Gaussian function identical to the radio clean beam of 1.6" x 0.6" (PA=11o). The central positions (offsets in arcseconds from the field center, see footnote of Table 1) of the eight regions are (65,-190), (86,-164), (50,-170), (14,-165), (55,-145), (28,-133), (37.5,-101) and (14,-115.5). |