{"paper":{"title":"ALMA Observations of the Antennae Galaxies: I. A New Window on a Prototypical Merger","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"2-National Radio Astrophysical Observatory, 3-The University of Toledo, 4), 4-University of Virginia, 5), 5-Adjunct Astronomer, Aaron Evans (2, Adam Leroy (2), Anthony Remijan (2), Bradley C. Whitmore (1), Crystal Brogan (2), George Privon (4), John Hibbard (2), Kartik Sheth (2) (1-Space Telescope Science Institute, Kelsey Johnson (4, National Radio Astrophysical Observatory), Rupali Chandar (3)","submitted_at":"2014-10-16T15:56:07Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present the highest spatial resolution (~0.5\") CO (3-2) observations to date of the \"overlap\" region in the merging Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038/39), taken with the ALMA. We report on the discovery of a long (3 kpc), thin (aspect ratio 30/1), filament of CO gas which breaks up into roughly ten individual knots. Each individual knot has a low internal velocity dispersion (~10 km/s), and the dispersion of the ensemble of knots in the filament is also low (~10 km/s). At the other extreme, we find that the individual clouds in the Super Giant Molecular Cloud 2 region discussed by Wilson and coll"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1410.4473","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}