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We investigate the star formation activity in the molecular complex associated with the Galactic HII region Sh2-90, using radio-continuum maps obtained at 1280 MHz and 610 MHz, Herschel Hi-GAL observations at 70 -- 500 microns, and deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. R. Samal , A. Zavagno , L. Deharveng , S. Molinari , D. K. Ojha , D. Paradis , J. Tigé , A. K. Pandey , D. Russeil

We present a study of the molecular gas and interstellar dust distribution in the environs of the HII region NGC 3503 associated with the open cluster Pis 17 with the aim of investigating the spatial distribution of the molecular gas linked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 N. U. Duronea , J. Vasquez , C. E. Cappa , M. Corti , E. M. Arnal

We analyze the distribution of the interstellar matter in the environs of the HII region Gum31, excited by the open cluster NGC3324, located in the complex Carina region, with the aim of investigating the action of the massive stars on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Cappa , V. S. Niemela , R. Amorin , J. Vasquez

The southern Galactic high mass star-forming region, G351.6-1.3, is a HII region-molecular cloud complex with a luminosity of 2.0 x 10^5 L_sun, located at a distance of 2.4 kpc. In this paper, we focus on the investigation of the associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh , D. K. Ojha , R. P. Verma , M. Tamura

We present multiwavelength investigation of morphology, physical-environment, stellar contents and star formation activity in the vicinity of star-forming region Sh 2-100. It is found that the Sh 2-100 region contains seven HII regions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 M. R. Samal , A. K. Pandey , D. K. Ojha , S. K. Ghosh , V. K. Kulkarni , N. Kusakabe , M. Tamura , B. C. Bhatt , M. A. Thompson , R. Sagar

We have obtained deep spectra of 26 planetary nebulae (PNe) and 9 compact HII regions in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300, and analyzed them together with those of the giant HII regions previously observed. We have determined the physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Stasinska , M. Pena , F. Bresolin , Yi. Tsamis

We report the results obtained from a multi-wavelength study of the HII region, G18.148$-$0.283, using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at 1350 MHz along with other archival data. In addition to the radio continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-28 Jyotirmoy Dey , Jagadheep D. Pandian , Dharam Vir Lal

We present the results of a galaxy-wide study of molecular gas and star formation in a sample of 76 HII regions in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300. We have measured the molecular gas at 250 pc scales using pointed CO(J=2-1) observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Christopher M. Faesi , Charles J. Lada , Jan Forbrich , Karl Menten , Herve Bouy

We present a detailed characterization of the population of compact radio-continuum sources in W51 A using subarcsecond VLA and ALMA observations. We analyzed their 2-cm continuum, the recombination lines (RL's) H77$\alpha$ and H30$\alpha$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Rudy Rivera-Soto , Roberto Galván-Madrid , Adam Ginsburg , Stan Kurtz

To investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar neighborhood, we analyzed ${\gamma}$-ray data by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) for five nearby molecular cloud regions. Our data includes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Tsunefumi Mizuno , Katsuhiro Hayashi , Hinako Ochi , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

We analyze the statistical properties of the circumnuclear HII regions of a sample of 52 nearby galaxies ($v < 1000km/s) from archival HST/NICMOS H-band and Pa alpha (1.87micron) observations at unprecedented spatial resolutions of between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Almudena Alonso-Herrero , Johan H. Knapen

As part of our ongoing HII Region Discovery Survey (HRDS), we report the Green Bank Telescope detection of 148 new angularly-large Galactic HII regions in radio recombination line (RRL) emission. Our targets are located at a declination…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 L. D. Anderson , W. P. Armentrout , Matteo Luisi , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger

We present a new catalog of HII regions based on the integral field spectroscopy (IFS) data of the extended CALIFA and PISCO samples. The selection of HII regions was based on two assumptions: a clumpy structure with high contrast of…

We present here our shape analysis method for a sample of 76 Galactic HII regions from MAGPIS 1.4 GHz data. The main goal is to determine whether physical properties and initial conditions of massive star cluster formation is linked to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Justyn Campbell-White , Dirk Froebrich , Alfred Kume

The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) millimeter array was used to make observations of the CS(2-1) line (at 97.981 GHz) arising from the G0.07+0.04 region of the ``-30 km/s'' molecular cloud near the Galactic center with a spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cornelia C. Lang , W. M. Goss , Mark Morris

The Carina Nebula is an extremely bright southern HII region embedded in a giant molecular cloud and contains some of the most massive stars known in our Galaxy. We are undertaking a multi-wavelength study of the Carina Nebula in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. J. Brooks , J. B. Whiteoak , J. W. V. Storey

We present the first results on the diffuse transition clouds observed in [CII] line emission at 158 microns (1.9 THz) towards Galactic longitudes near 340deg (5 LOSs) and 20deg (11 LOSs) as part of the GOT C+ survey. Out of the total 146…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Velusamy , W. D. Langer , J. L. Pineda , P. F. Goldsmith , D. Li. , H. W. Yorke

Hypercompact HII regions (HC) are regions of ionized gas associated with the early stages of high-mass star formation. With the aim of better understanding their characteristics, we studied five candidate HC HII regions. Here, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 I. T. Rodríguez-Esnard , S. Kurtz , J. D. Pandian , J. Franco , A. Sánchez-Monge , M. A. Trinidad , V. Migenes

The properties of molecular clouds associated with 10 HII regions were studied using CO observations. We identified 142 dense clumps within our sample and found that our sources are divided into two categories: those with clumps that show a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mohaddesseh Azimlu , Michel Fich

The Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (BU-FCRAO) Galactic Ring Survey (GRS) of 13 CO (1-0) emission covers Galactic longitudes 18 deg < l < 55.7 deg and Galactic latitudes |b| <= 1 deg. Using the SEQUOIA array on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Rathborne , A. M. Johnson , J. M. Jackson , R. Y. Shah , R. Simon