Description
Data products created as part of the 3-D CMZ Papers I & II (Battersby et al. 2024a,b). The appendix of Paper I describes the column density and temperature maps in detail, but this information is appended below as well for convenience. Paper II produced the files: "higalcmz_dendrogram.fits" which contains the full hierarchical dendrogram and "higalcmz_dendrogram_mask" which is a flat image where each pixel corresponds to the highest strucutre number contained in the pixel. We combined all the data for Tables 1-4 in Paper II into one megatable, which is released in both fits "MEGATABLE.fits" and simple text file format: "MEGATABLE.tab". Details of paper I files, repeated from Paper I appendix: "The data products are all normalized to the same resolution and pixel grid matching our lowest resolution at 36", and are provided for both the inner 7deg of the Galaxy as well as the full inner 40deg of the Galaxy. For each region (inner 7deg and inner 40deg), we provide: 1) a label map showing the location of the source masks (e.g. higalcmz_column_density_inner40deg_label.fits), 2) a column density map with the fore/background-subtracted column density inside the source masks and the smoothed fore/background column density outside the source masks (e.g. higalcmz_column_density_inner40deg.fits), 3) a column density map with only the fore/background-subtracted column density inside the source masks and NaNs outside the source mask (e.g. higalcmz_column_density_source_only_inner40deg.fits), 4) a column density map without any fore/background subtraction (e.g. higalcmz_WITH_BG_column_density_inner40deg.fits), 5) a temperature map with the fore/background-subtracted temperature inside the source masks and the smoothed fore/background temperature outside the source masks (e.g. higalcmz_temperature_inner40deg.fits), 6) a temperature map with the only the fore/background-subtracted temperature inside the source masks and NaNs outside the source mask (e.g. higalcmz_temperature_source_only_inner40deg.fits), and 7) a temperature map without any fore/background subtraction (e.g. higalcmz_WITH_BG_temperature_inner40deg.fits).
| Date made available | 2026 |
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| Publisher | Harvard Dataverse |
Research output
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3D CMZ. I. Central Molecular Zone overview
Battersby, C., Walker, D. L., Barnes, A., Ginsburg, A., Lipman, D., Alboslani, D., Hatchfield, H. P., Bally, J., Glover, S. C. O., Henshaw, J. D., Immer, K., Klessen, R. S., Longmore, S. N., Mills, E. A. C., Molinari, S., Smith, R., Sormani, M. C., Tress, R. G. & Zhang, Q., 10 May 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 984, 2, 16 p., 156.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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