Fig. 1

Multiphase view of the central 2 pc of the Milky Way. Overlay of the 12CO (J = 3–2) (blue) and H13CN (J = 4–3) (red) integrated emission observed with ALMA tracing warm molecular gas in the southern lobe of the circumnuclear disk (CND). Representative inner and outer circular orbits (1.5 and 2.3 pc deprojected radii) are shown as dashed cyan curves. Closer to the supermassive black hole at Sgr A*, the dotted green curves show arms of the Keplerian elliptical orbits previously proposed to fit the motion of the ionized gas streamers (Zhao et al. 2009, and references therein) shown by the [Ne II]12.8 μm emission (green; from Irons et al. 2012). North is up and east is left.
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