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We have conducted a systematic search around the Milky Way (MW) analog NGC 253 (D=3.5 Mpc), as a part of the Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor (PISCeS) - a Magellan+Megacam survey to identify dwarfs and other substructures…

We present results from our Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) HI observations of the Arp 305 system. The system consists of two interacting spiral galaxies NGC 4016 and NGC 4017, a large amount of resultant tidal debris and a prominent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 C. Sengupta , T. C. Scott , S. Paudel , K. S. Dwarakanath , D. J. Saikia , B. W. Sohn

NGC 2915 is a nearby blue compact dwarf with a differentially rotating HI disc extending out to ~ 5 R-band R_{25} radii. This disc serves as an ideal tracer of the system's gravitational potential in regions of the galaxy that are dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. C. Elson , W. J. G. de Blok , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a well studied grand design galaxy with two major spiral arms, and a large satellite NGC 5195. The arms both show long uniform sections with perturbations ('kinks' or sharp turns) in specific regions. Comparing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-24 Joan Font , John E. Beckman , Benoît Epinat , Clare L. Dobbs , Miguel Querejeta

Results from new HI synthesis observations of the nearby blue compact dwarf galaxy, NGC 2915, carried out on the Australian Telescope Compact Array are presented. High resolution HI moment maps for the galaxy reveal complex HI distributions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 E. C. Elson , W. J. G. de Blok , R. C. Kraan-Koretweg

The structure of a dwarf galaxy is an important probe into the effects of stellar feedback and environment. Using an unprecedented sample of 223 low-mass satellites from the ongoing Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey, we…

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The thin, extended planes of satellite galaxies detected around both the Milky Way and Andromeda are not a natural prediction of the LCDM paradigm. Galaxies in these distinct planes may have formed and evolved in a different way (e.g.,…

We present an analysis of the proper motion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), based on the Early Third Data Release of the Gaia mission. We use the Gaia photometry to select young blue main sequence stars, and apply several quality cuts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-06 J. -B. Salomon , R. Ibata , C. Reylé , B. Famaey , N. I. Libeskind , A. W. McConnachie , Y. Hoffman

We report the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy (NGC6503-d1) during the Subaru extended ultraviolet (XUV) disk survey. It is a likely companion of the spiral galaxy NGC6503. The resolved images, in B, V, R, i, and Halpha, show an irregular…

We report the discovery of a detached 20 min orbital period binary white dwarf. WD0931+444 (SDSS J093506.93+441106.9) was previously classified as a WD + M dwarf system based on its optical spectrum. Our time-resolved optical spectroscopy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mukremin Kilic , Warren R. Brown , A. Gianninas , J. J. Hermes , Carlos Allende Prieto , S. J. Kenyon

We present a comprehensive analysis of the structural properties and luminosities of the 23 dwarf spheroidal galaxies that fall within the footprint of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS). These dwarf galaxies represent the…

We use images from the Hubble Space Telescope to determine the distances to a dozen objects with low surface brightness recently observed around the bright nearby spiral M101. Only two dwarf galaxies, M101-DwA and M101-Dw9, turn out to be…

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Published maps of red giant stars in the halo region of M31 exhibit a giant stellar stream to the south of this galaxy, as well as a giant "shelf" to the northeast of M31's center. Using these maps, we find that there is a fainter shelf of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Fardal , P. Guhathakurta , A. Babul , A. W. McConnachie

We investigate a possible close encounter between M33 and M31 in the past to understand the role of galaxy-galaxy interactions in shaping the matter distribution in galaxy outskirts. We recovered possible orbital trajectories of M33, M31…

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We present a deep photometric survey of M31, conducted with the CFHT and INT, covering the inner 50 kpc of the galaxy, the Southern quadrant out to 150 kpc, and extending to M33. This is the first systematic panoramic study of this very…

We have investigated whether or not a tidal stripping scenario can reproduce the observed surface-brightness profile of omega Centauri using N-body simulations. Assuming that the progenitor of omega Centauri is a dwarf elliptical galaxy, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Makoto Ideta , Junichiro Makino

The arrangement of M31's dwarf galaxies exhibits anisotropy, with the majority located in the hemisphere between the Milky Way and the host galaxy. This study aims to investigate whether M31's present location is aligned with the center of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky , N. F. Martin , Michelle L. M. Collins

We report the detection of a pair of dwarf galaxies at $z\!=\!0.30$ which may be in the early stages of an interaction. Both galaxies have stellar masses of $<10^{9}M_\odot$, and display a projected separation of $\sim\!29$kpc and a…

Finding nearby neutron stars can probe the supernova and metal-enrichment histories near our Solar system. Recently, Lin et al. 2023 reported an exciting neutron star candidate, 2MASS J15274848+3536572 (hereafter J1527), with a small Gaia…

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