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Tohoku University

Figure 1

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The central region of the Circinus Galaxy observed with ALMA. The distributions of carbon monoxide (CO; reflecting the presence of medium-density molecular gas), atomic carbon (C; reflecting the presence of the atomic gas), hydrogen cyanide (HCN; reflecting the presence of high-density molecular gas), and the hydrogen recombination line (H36α; reflecting the presence of ionized gas), are shown in red, blue, green, and pink, respectively.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Izumi et al.

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