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We have carried out a sensitive search for gas emission lines at infrared and millimeter wavelengths for a sample of 15 young sun-like stars selected from our dust disk survey with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We have used mid-infrared…

Post-starburst (or "E+A") galaxies are characterized by low H$\alpha$ emission and strong Balmer absorption, suggesting a recent starburst, but little current star formation. Although many of these galaxies show evidence of recent mergers,…

The $\rm H_2$ mass of molecular clouds has traditionally been traced by the CO(J=1-0) rotational transition line. This said, CO is relatively easily photodissociated, and can also be destroyed by cosmic rays, thus rendering some fraction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Qi Li , Desika Narayanan , Romeel Dave , Mark R. Krumholz

We present Arecibo 21 cm spectroscopy, Keck HIRES Hb spectroscopy, and WIYN R-band images of 11 nearby blue compact galaxies selected to be similar to blue compact star-forming galaxies at intermediate redshifts (0.1<z<1). We detect HI in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. J. Pisano , Henry A. Kobulnicky , Rafael Guzman , Jesus Gallego , Matthew A. Bershady , ;

We combine morphological classifications from deep HST imaging of a sample of 3 clusters at z=0.31 and a further 9 clusters at z=0.37-0.56 with existing spectroscopic observations of their E and S0 populations, to study the relative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lewis Jones , Ian Smail , Warrick J. Couch

To investigate what drives the reversal of the morphology-density relation at intermediate/high redshift, we present a multi-wavelength analysis of 27 dusty starburst galaxies in the massive cluster Cl 0024+17 at z = 0.4. We combine H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 H. L. Johnson , C. M. Harrison , A. M. Swinbank , R. G. Bower , Ian Smail , Y. Koyama , J. E. Geach

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) show a bimodal distribution in key structural properties like stellar specific angular momentum, kinematic morphology, and nuclear surface brightness profiles. Slow rotator ETGs, mostly found in the densest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Michele Cappellari

We study the evolution of atomic and molecular gas in galaxies in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation that include new modeling of the partitioning of cold gas in galactic discs into atomic, molecular, and ionised phases. We adopt two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gergo Popping , Rachel S. Somerville , Scott C. Trager

We have investigated the radial g-r color gradients of early-type galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR6 in the redshift range 0.00<z<0.06. The majority of massive early-type galaxies show a negative color gradient (red-cored)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Hyewon Suh , Hyunjin Jeong , Kyuseok Oh , Sukyoung K. Yi , Ignacio Ferreras , Kevin Schawinski

We have initiated the first CO interferometer survey of early-type spiral galaxies (S0-Sab). We observed five early-type spiral galaxies with HII nuclei (indicating circumnuclear starburst activities). These observations indicate gas masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Koda , T. Okuda , K. Nakanishi , K. Kohno , S. Ishizuki , N. Kuno , S. K. Okumura

We present a demographic analysis of integrated star formation and gas properties for a sample of galaxies representative of the overall population at z~0. This research was undertaken in order to characterise the nature of star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. S. Bothwell , R. C. Kennicutt , J. C. Lee

We analyze a sample of 753 S0 galaxies from the MPL-10 of MaNGA survey and investigate the gas-star kinematic misalignment and merger remnant fraction in galaxies with different morphological types. The misalign fraction in S0s is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Yuren Zhou , Yanmei Chen , Yong Shi , Qiusheng Gu , Junfeng Wang , Dmitry Bizyaev

It is a longstanding and remarkable problem when and how red S0 galaxies were formed in clusters of galaxies. We here propose that the major mechanism for the S0 creation is galaxy merging between two spirals with unequal mass. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kenji Bekki

Post-starburst, or E+A galaxies, are the best candidates for galaxies in transition from being gas-rich and star-forming to gas-poor and passively-evolving via galaxy-galaxy mergers. To determine what E+A galaxies become after their young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Yujin Yang , Ann Zabludoff , Dennis Zaritsky , Christopher Mihos

Molecular gas, as the fuel for star formation, and its relationship with atomic gas are crucial for understanding how galaxies regulate their star forming (SF) activities. We conducted IRAM 30m observations of 23 nearby spiral galaxies from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Yan Jiang , Jiang-Tao Li , Qing-Hua Tan , Li Ji , Joel N. Bregman , Q. Daniel Wang , Jian-Fa Wang , Li-Yuan Lu , Xue-Jian Jiang

Observations of neutral hydrogen (HI) and molecular gas show that 50% of all nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs) contain some cold gas. Molecular gas is always found in small gas discs in the central region of the galaxy, while neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 M. K. Yıldız , R. F. Peletier , P. -A. Duc , P. Serra

We present numerical computations and analytic scaling relations for interstellar ion-molecule gas phase chemistry down to very low metallicities ($ 10^{-3} \times$ solar), and/or up to high driving ionization rates. Relevant environments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Shmuel Bialy , Amiel Sternberg

Post-starburst galaxies are typically considered to be a transition population, en route to the red sequence after a recent quenching event. Despite this, recent observations have shown that these objects typically have large reservoirs of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Timothy A. Davis , Freeke van de Voort , Kate Rowlands , Stuart McAlpine , Vivienne Wild , Robert A. Crain

About half of the S0 galaxies in the nearby Universe show signatures of recent or ongoing star formation. Whether these S0 galaxies were rejuvenated by the accretion of fresh gas is still controversial. We study minor mergers of a gas-rich…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-12 Michela Mapelli

We examine the fraction of early-type (and spiral) galaxies found in groups and clusters of galaxies as a function of dark matter halo mass. We use morphological classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project matched to halo masses from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ben Hoyle , Karen. L. Masters , Robert C. Nichol , Raul Jimenez , Steven P. Bamford