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Star formation in galaxies is a hierarchical process with a wide range of scales from smaller clusters to larger stellar complexes. Here, we present an ultra-violet imaging study of the nearby flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 7793, observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Chayan Mondal , Annapurni Subramaniam , Koshy George , Joseph E. Postma , Smitha Subramanian , Sudhanshu Barway

In this work we report and discuss the detection of two distant diffuse stellar groups in the third Galactic quadrant. They are composed of young stars, with spectral types ranging from late O to late B, and lie at galactocentric distances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Giovanni Carraro , Ruben A. Vazquez , Edgardo Costa , . Gabriel Perren , Andre' Mointinho

In the local (redshift z~0) Universe, collisional ring galaxies make up only ~0.01% of galaxies and are formed by head-on galactic collisions that trigger radially propagating density waves. These striking systems provide key snapshots for…

The unprecedented detail of the WFPC2 colour-magnitude diagrams of the resolved stellar population of Leo A presented here allows us to determine a new distance and an accurate star formation history for this extremely metal-poor Local…

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

Understanding the astrophysical processes acting within galaxy groups and their effects on the evolution of the galaxy population is one of the crucial topic of modern cosmology, as almost 60% of galaxies in the Local Universe are found in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Marino , L. Bianchi , R. Rampazzo , L. M. Buson , D. Bettoni

The recently discovered Antlia dwarf galaxy in analyzed using VI photometry. The galaxy is resolved into a large number of stars and although the galaxy is intrinsically faint and low surface brightness, its stellar populations reveal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Aparicio , J. J. Dalcanton , C. Gallart , D. Martinez-Delgado

We report on the discovery of three new dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. These galaxies are found in new CFHT/MegaPrime g,i imaging of the south-western quadrant of M31, extending our extant survey area to include the majority of the…

We examine the star-forming history (SFH) of the M31 disk during the past few hundred Myr. The luminosity functions (LFs) of main sequence stars at distances R_GC > 21 kpc (i.e. > 4 disk scale lengths) are matched by models that assume a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. J. Davidge , A. W. McConnachie , M. A. Fardal , J. Fliri , D. Valls-Gabaud , S. C. Chapman , G. F. Lewis , R. M. Rich

We use about 15,000 F/G nearby dwarf stars selected from the LAMOST pilot survey to map the U-V velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood. An extreme deconvolution algorithm is applied to reconstruct an empirical multi-Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-17 Qiran Xia , Chao Liu , Yan Xu , Shude Mao , Shuang Gao , Yonghui Hou , Ge Jin , Yong Zhang

We measure the projected half-light radii of young star clusters in 31 galaxies from the Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). We implement a custom pipeline specifically designed to be robust against contamination, which allows us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Gillen Brown , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We investigate the relationship between the spatial distributions of stellar populations and of neutral and ionized gas in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy Sextans A. This galaxy is currently experiencing a burst of localized star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Daniel Puche , Tony Wong

We present the discovery of Bo\"otes V, a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidate. This satellite is detected as a resolved overdensity of stars during an ongoing search for new Local Group dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS photometric…

We present new FLAMES$+$GIRAFFE spectroscopy of 36 member stars in the isolated Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxy Tucana. We measure a systemic velocity for the system of $v_{\mathrm{Tuc}}=216.7_{-2.8}^{+2.9}$kms$^{-1}$, and a velocity…

We present the serendipitous discovery of an extremely broad ($\Delta V_{LSR} \sim 150$ km/s), faint ($T_{mb} < 10 \textrm{mK}$), and ubiquitous 1667 and 1665 MHz ground-state thermal OH emission towards the 2nd quadrant of the outer Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Michael P. Busch , Philip D. Engelke , Ronald J. Allen , David E. Hogg

We present a list of 75 isolated late-type dwarf galaxies which have no neighbors with a relative radial velocity difference of less than 500 km/s or projected separations within 500 kpc. These were selected from $\sim$2000 dwarf galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-14 V. E. Karachentseva , I. D. Karachentsev , M. E. Sharina

This paper is the first of a series considering the properties of distribution of nearby galaxies in the low density regions. Among 7596 galaxies with radial velocities V_{LG}<3500 km/s, absolute magnitudes M_K<-18.4^m$, and Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva , O. V. Melnyk , A. A. Elyiv , D. I. Makarov

We measured velocities of 862 individual red giant stars in seven isolated dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: NGC 6822, IC 1613, VV 124 (UGC 4879), the Pegasus dwarf irregular galaxy (DDO 216), Leo A, Cetus, and Aquarius (DDO 210). We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Evan N. Kirby , James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Manoj Kaplinghat , Judith G. Cohen

A protogalaxy candidate at z=2.72 has been discovered serendipitously by the CNOC cluster redshift survey. The candidate is an extremely luminous (V=20.5 mag, absolute mag -26) and well resolved disk-like galaxy. The redshift is identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. K. C. Yee , E. Ellingson , J. Bechtold , R. Carlberg , J. C. Cuillandre

We report the discovery of Pavo, a faint ($M_V = -10.0$), star-forming, irregular, and extremely isolated dwarf galaxy at $D\approx2$ Mpc. Pavo was identified in Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey imaging via a novel approach that combines…