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We present high-resolution, optical images (BVI + Halpha) of the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM) in the thick disks of the edge-on spiral galaxies NGC 4013 and NGC 4302. Our images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Large Binocular…

We present adaptive optics assisted integral field spectroscopy of nine Halpha-selected galaxies at z=0.84--2.23 selected from the HiZELS narrow-band survey. Our observations map the star-formation and kinematics of these representative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 Mark Swinbank , Ian Smail , David Sobral , Tom Theuns , Philip Best , Jim Geach

We present Halpha rotation curves for a sample of 15 dwarf and LSB galaxies. From these, we derive limits on the slopes of the central mass distributions. Assuming the density distributions of dark matter halos follow a power-law at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Swaters , B. F. Madore , F. C. van den Bosch , M. Balcells

The dust properties of all early-type galaxies imaged with the Planetary Camera of the HST in cycles I-III are examined. Dust is detected in 31 out of 64 galaxies, although the sample is biased against the detection of dust. From the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. G. van Dokkum , M. Franx

We study the self-consistent, linear response of a galactic disc to non-axisymmetric perturbations in the vertical direction as due to a tidal encounter, and show that the density distribution near the disc mid-plane has a strong impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Pratyush Pranav , Chanda J. Jog

We have measured the central structural properties for a sample of S0-Sbc galaxies down to scales of ~10 pc using HST NICMOS images. We find that the photometric masses of the central star clusters, which occur in 58% of our sample, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Balcells , A. W. Graham , R. F. Peletier

Tadpole galaxies, with a bright peripheral clump on a faint tail, are morphological types unusual in the nearby universe but very common early on. Low mass local tadpoles were identified and studied photometrically in a previous work, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Sanchez Almeida , C. Munoz-Tunon , D. M. Elmegreen , B. G. Elmegreen , J. Mendez-Abreu

The stellar velocity dispersion as a function of the galactocentric radius of an early-type galaxy can generally be well approximated by a power law $\sigma \propto r^{\beta}$. However, some observed dispersion profiles show a deviation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna T. P. Schauer , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Andreas Burkert , Peter H. Johansson

We investigate the build-up of galaxies at z~1 using maps of Halpha and stellar continuum emission for a sample of 57 galaxies with rest-frame Halpha equivalent widths >100 Angstroms in the 3D-HST grism survey. We find that the Halpha…

This paper is the second in a series, studying the optical properties of a sample of mid-IR Warm Seyfert galaxies and a control sample of mid-IR Cold galaxies. The present paper is devoted to aperture photometry. We discuss nuclear (within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eleni T. Chatzichristou

We present the results of an investigation on the main structural properties derived from VRI and Halpha surface photometry of galaxies hosting nuclear emission-line regions (including Seyfert 1, Seyfert 2, LINER and starburst galaxies) as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel Sanchez-Portal , Angeles I Diaz , Elena Terlevich , Roberto Terlevich

High-resolution observations from the sub-mm to the optical wavelength regime resolve the central few 100pc region of nearby galaxies in great detail. They reveal a large diversity of features: thick gas and stellar discs, nuclear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 M. Schartmann , J. Mould , K. Wada , A. Burkert , M. Durré , M. Behrendt , R. I. Davies , L. Burtscher

Star formation is mainly determined by the observation of H$\alpha$ radiation which is related to the presence of short lived massive stars. Disc galaxies show a strong cutoff in H$\alpha$ radiation at a certain galactocentric distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-31 Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Pavel Kroupa

We compare properties of classical and pseudo-bulges and properties of their hosting galaxies selected from the MaNGA survey. Bulge types are identified based on the S$\mathrm{\acute{e}}$rsic index n of bulge component and the position of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-08 Jia Hu , Lan Wang , Junqiang Ge , Kai Zhu , Guangquan Zeng

It is well known that both the star formation rate and the cold gas content of a galaxy depend on the local density out to distances of a few Megaparsecs. In this paper, we compare the environmental density dependence of the atomic gas mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Silvia Fabello , Guinevere Kauffmann , Barbara Catinella , Cheng Li , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

In this work, we aim at providing a consistent analysis of the dust properties from metal-poor to metal-rich environments by linking them to fundamental galactic parameters. We consider two samples of galaxies: the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS)…

The gas-phase velocity dispersions in disk galaxies, which trace turbulence in the interstellar medium, are observed to increase with lookback time. However, the mechanisms that set this rise in turbulence are observationally poorly…

Dust lanes bisect the plane of a typical edge-on spiral galaxy as a dark optical absorption feature. Their appearance is linked to the gravitational stability of spiral disks; the fraction of edge-on galaxies that displays a dust lane is a…

The detailed morphology of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the central kiloparsec of galaxies is controlled by pressure and gravitation. The combination of these forces shapes both circumnuclear star formation and the growth of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul Martini , Michael W. Regan , John S. Mulchaey , Richard W. Pogge

Over the past two decades observations have revealed that the vertical density distribution of stars in galaxies near the mid-plane is substantially steeper than the sech^2 function that is expected from an isothermal approximation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Arunima Banerjee , Chanda J. Jog