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The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) is a large Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) treasury program to obtain resolved stellar photometry for a volume-limited sample of galaxies out to 4 Mpc. As part of…

We here present the ages of four compact stellar clusters (CSCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy M81, using long-slit optical spectra obtained with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). All the four CSCs, including the brightest in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-29 Y. D. Mayya , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , M. Santiago-Cortes

We probe the disk structure of the nearby, massive, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891 with sub-arcsecond resolution JHKs-band images covering ~+/-10 kpc in radius and +/-5 kpc in height. We measure intrinsic surface brightness profiles using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-26 Andrew Schechtman-Rook , Matthew A. Bershady

Stellar mass distribution in M31 is estimated using optical and infrared imaging data. Combining the derived stellar mass model with various kinematical data, properties of the DM halo of the galaxy are constrained. SDSS observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Tamm , E. Tempel , P. Tenjes , O. Tihhonova , T. Tuvikene

We present 4.5, 8, and 16um photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope for 204 stars in the Upper Scorpius OB Association. The data are used to investigate the frequency and properties of circumstellar disks around stars with masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John M. Carpenter , Eric E. Mamajek , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Michael R. Meyer

[Abridged] We map the stellar age distribution ($\lesssim 1$ Gyr) across a 6kpc$\,\times\,$6kpc area of the Galactic disc to constrain our Galaxy's recent star-formation history. Our modelling draws on the sample of Zari et al. (2021) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 E. Zari , N. Frankel , H. -W. Rix

For four well studied spiral galaxies (M33, M81, M100 and M101) we consider the dependencies of star formation rate (SFR) and star formation efficiency (SFE = SFR/M_{gas}) both on the radial distance R and on some kinematic parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zasov , O. V. Abramova

Over the past several years, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has acquired many broad-band images of various regions in the M31 disk. I have obtained 27 such fields from the HST data archive in order to produce color-magnitude diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Benjamin F. Williams

We employ the CFHT Megacam camera to survey ~ one deg$^2$ of the southern outer disc of M31, a region which includes the area where Battinelli et al. (2003) have identified nearly one thousand C stars. In the outer M31 region not previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Battinelli , Serge Demers

We present new proper motions from the 10 m Keck telescopes for a puzzling population of massive, young stars located within 3.5" (0.14 pc) of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. Our proper motion measurements have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. R. Lu , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , M. R. Morris , E. E. Becklin , K. Matthews

We present images for 36 galaxies of the M81 group obtained in the H-alpha line. Estimates of the H-alpha flux and star formation rate, SFR, are avialable now for all the known members of the group with absolute magnitudes down to M_B =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor D. Karachentsev , Serafim S. Kaisin

By adopting the chemical evolution model of the Milky Way disk, we have studied the star formation and chemical evolution history for M31 galaxy disk. We mainly concentrated on the global properties of the M31 disk. The model has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-17 J. L. Hou , J. Yin , S. Boissier , N. Prantzos , R. X. Chang , L. Chen

We present a catalog of 2,990 extended sources in a 1deg x1deg area centered on M33 using the MegaCam camera on the 3.6m Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (CFHT). The catalog includes 599 new candidate stellar clusters, 204 previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Izaskun San Roman , Ata Sarajedini , Antonio Aparicio

We present an updated catalog of 1300 objects in the field of M31, including 670 likely star clusters of various types. Archival images were inspected to confirm cluster classifications where possible, but most of the classifications were…

The M33 galaxy is a nearby, relatively metal-poor, late-type spiral. Its proximity and almost face-on inclination means that it projects over a large area on the sky, making it an ideal candidate for wide-field CCD mosaic imaging.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. F. Rowe , H. B. Richer , J. P. Brewer , D. R. Crabtree

We present new kinematic measurements and modeling of a sample of 116 young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy in order to investigate the properties of the young stellar disk. The measurements were derived from a combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Sylvana Yelda , Andrea M. Ghez , Jessica R. Lu , Tuan Do , Leo Meyer , Mark R. Morris , Keith Matthews

By using images from the HST/WFPC2/ACS archive, we have analyzed the spatial distribution of the AGB and RGB stars along the galactocentric radius of nearby spiral galaxies M~81, NGC 300 and NGC 55. Using color-magnitude diagrams and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Tikhonov , O. A. Galazutdinova , I. O. Drozdovsky

A panchromatic investigation of morphology for the early-type spiral galaxy M81 is presented in this paper. We perform bulge-disk decomposition in M81 images at a total of 20 wavebands from FUV to NIR obtained with GALEX, Swift, SDSS, WIYN,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Jun-Yu Gong , Ye-Wei Mao , Hua Gao , Si-Yue Yu

We study the population of compact stellar clusters (CSCs) in M81, using the HST/ACS images in the filters F435W, F606W and F814W covering, for the first time, the entire optical extent of the galaxy. Our sample contains 435 clusters of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Santiago-Cortes , Y. D. Mayya , D. Rosa-Gonzalez

We have identified a major global enhancement of star formation in the inner M31 disk that occurred between 2-4 Gyr ago, producing $\sim$60% of the stellar mass formed in the past 5 Gyr. The presence of this episode in the inner disk was…