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This paper reports a Galactic kinematical and dynamical analysis of 1003 main-sequence carbon stars. The sample is drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and cross-matched with Gaia DR3 to obtain 6-dimensional positions and velocities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Jay Farihi , Jason L. Sanders , Sophia Lilleengen , Lewis J. Whitehouse , Denis Erkal

We extend here a previous investigation on the characteristics of Galactic carbon stars using more accurate EDR3 astrometry measurements. Based on a much larger statistics, we confirm that N- and SC-type carbon stars share a very similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Carlos Abia , Patrick de Laverny , Merce Romero , Francesca Figueras

CH stars form a distinct class of objects with characteristic properties like iron deficiency, enrichment of carbon and overabundance in heavy elements. These properties can provide strong observational constraints for theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Aruna Goswami , Drisya Karinkuzhi , N. S. Shantikumar

We report new observations of circumgalactic gas in the halos of early type galaxies obtained by the COS-Halos Survey with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We find that detections of HI surrounding early…

Recent, high sensitivity, HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies show that their thin `cold' disks are surrounded by thick layers (halos) of neutral gas with anomalous kinematics. We present results for three galaxies viewed at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Fraternali , Tom Oosterloo , Rense Boomsma , Rob Swaters , Renzo Sancisi

We report on the discovery of a new Milky Way companion stellar system located at (RA, Dec) = (22h10m43.15s, +14:56:58.8). The discovery was made using the eighth data release of SDSS after applying an automated method to search for…

In this work we present the main atmospheric parameters, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen abundances, and 12C/13C ratios determined in a sample of 28 Galactic clump stars. Abundances of carbon were studied using the C2 band at 5086.2 {\AA}. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-17 G. Tautvaišienė , G. Barisevičius , Y. Chorniy , I. Ilyin , E. Puzeras

This chapter presents a review of the current state of knowledge on the cool (T ~ 1e4 K) halo gas content around massive galaxies at z ~ 0.2-2. Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in characterizing the cool…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Hsiao-Wen Chen

Our goal in this paper is to derive a carbon-star luminosity function that will eventually be used to determine distances to galaxies at $50$-$60$ Mpc and hence yield a value of the Hubble constant. Cool N-type carbon stars exhibit redder…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-29 Paul Ripoche , Jeremy Heyl , Javiera Parada , Harvey Richer

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we have resolved individual red-giant branch stars in the halos of eight nearby spiral galaxies. The fields lie at projected distances between 2 and 13 kpc along the galaxies' minor axes. The data set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mouhcine , H. C. Ferguson , R. M. Rich , T. M. Brown , T. E. Smith

We present observations of circumstellar millimetre-wave 13CO line emission towards a sample of 20 cool carbon stars. Using a detailed radiative transfer model we estimate the circumstellar 12CO/13CO-ratios, which we believe accurately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. L. Schoeier , H. Olofsson

We present predictions for the clustering of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) in a \Lambda cold dark matter Universe, using a semi-analytical galaxy formation model in combination with a cosmological N-body simulation. EROs are red, massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey , J. -W. Kim

We identify new structures in the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy from positions, colors and magnitudes of five million stars detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most of these stars are within 1.26 degrees of the celestial equator. We…

We characterize the physical properties of the cool T ~10^4 K circumgalactic medium surrounding z ~2-3 quasar host galaxies, which are predicted to evolve into present day massive ellipticals. Using a statistical sample of 14 quasar pairs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Marie Wingyee Lau , J. Xavier Prochaska , Joseph F. Hennawi

The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project is a photometric and spectroscopic survey from which we select relatively blue stars (V-R<0.30 mag) as probes of the Milky Way halo. The Survey strip spans the range of Galactic latitude 35<b<88 deg,…

We investigate the star formation occurring in the Planck Galactic cold clump PGCC 120.69+2.66. Near-infrared JHKs images and K-band spectroscopy obtained with NOTCam at the Nordic Optical Telescope complemented with archive data are used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-08 Anlaug Amanda Djupvik , João L. Yun , Fernando Comerón

We present the first map of carbonicity, [C/Fe], for the halo system of the Milky Way, based on a sample of over 100,000 main-sequence turnoff stars with available spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This map, which explores…

In this work, we present the new catalog of carbon stars from the LAMOST DR2 catalog. In total, 894 carbon stars are identified from multiple line indices measured from the stellar spectra. Combining the CN bands in the red end with \ctwo\…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wei Ji , Wenyuan Cui , Chao Liu , Ali Luo , Gang Zhao , Bo Zhang

(Abridged) A large fraction of the gas in galactic haloes has temperatures between 10^4.5 and 10^7 K. At these temperatures, cooling is dominated by metal-line emission if the metallicity Z>~0.1 Zsun. We explore the detectability of several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Freeke van de Voort , Joop Schaye

We found that at least 18 Young Stellar Object candidates invisible at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, as well as ^12CO emission. They are IRAS point sources with FIR colors similar to those of usual YSOs, and the infrared spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ikuru Iwata , Shin-ichiro Okumura , Mamoru Saito