We present high-resolution (~2-3"; ~0.1 pc) radio observations of the
Galactic center cloud M0.10-0.08 using the Very Large Array at K and Ka band
(~25 and 36 GHz). The M0.10-0.08 cloud is located in a complex environment near
the Galactic center Radio Arc and the adjacent M0.11-0.11 molecular cloud. From
our data, M0.10-0.08 appears to be a compact molecular cloud (~3 pc) that
contains multiple compact molecular cores (5+; <0.4 pc). In this study we
detect a total of 15 molecular transitions in M0.10-0.08 from the following
molecules: NH3, HC3N, CH3OH, HC5N, CH3CN, and OCS. We have identified more than
sixty 36 GHz CH3OH masers in M0.10-0.08 with brightness temperatures above 400
K and 31 maser candidates with temperatures between 100-400 K. We conduct a
kinematic analysis of the gas using NH3 and detect multiple velocity components
towards this region of the Galactic center. The bulk of the gas in this region
has a velocity of 51.5 km/s (M0.10-0.08) with a lower velocity wing at 37.6
km/s. We also detect a relatively faint velocity component at 10.6 km/s that we
attribute to being an extension of the M0.11-0.11 cloud. Analysis of the gas
kinematics, combined with past X-ray fluorescence observations, suggests
M0.10-0.08 and M0.11-0.11 are located in the same vicinity of the Galactic
center and could be physically interacting.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa