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The Local and Loop I superbubbles are the closest and best investigated supernova (SN) generated bubbles and serve as test laboratories for observations and theories of the interstellar medium. Since the morphology and dynamical evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dieter Breitschwerdt , Miguel A. de Avillez

We report the discovery of very high latitude molecular gas in the edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 5775. Emission from both the J=1-0 and 2-1 lines of 12CO is detected up to 4.8 kpc away from the mid-plane of the galaxy. NGC 5775 is known to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -W. Lee , E. R. Seaquist , S. Leon , S. Garcia-Burillo , J. A. Irwin

We present 12CO J=1-0 observations from the Caltech Millimeter Array of a field in the nearby spiral galaxy M81. We detect emission from three features that are the size of large giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Milky Way Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. L. Taylor , C. D. Wilson

The nearby face-on spiral galaxy M101 has been observed with the Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard AKARI. The far-infrared four-band images reveal fine spatial structures of M101, which include global spiral patterns, giant HII regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Suzuki , H. Kaneda , T. Nakagawa , S. Makiuti , Y. Okada , H. Shibai , M. Kawada , Y. Doi

We study the evolution of supernova (SN) remnants of the first stars, taking proper account of the radiative feedback of the progenitor stars on the surroundings. We carry out a series of one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tetsu Kitayama , Naoki Yoshida

We solve for the velocity fields of momentum-conserving supershells driven by feedback from supermassive black holes or nuclear star clusters (central massive objects: CMOs). We treat, for the first time, the case of CMOs embedded in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Rachael C. McQuillin , Dean E. McLaughlin

The recently-detected TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1923+141 coincides with Supernova Remnant (SNR) W51C and the star forming region W51B of the W51 complex. We construct HI absorption spectra to SNR W51C, HII regions G49.2-0.35 and G49.1-0.38…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 W. W. Tian , D. A. Leahy

The properties of the Galactic HI shell GSH 138-01-94 are derived from data of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. The basic parameters of GSH 138-01-94 were determined by fitting the expansion of a thin shell to the expansion velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Stil , Judith A. Irwin

Neutral hydrogen observations of the nearby, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891 reveal the presence of an HI halo extending up to at least 5 kpc from the plane. This halo gas appears to rotate 25 to 100 km/s more slowly than the gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 R. A. Swaters , R. Sancisi , J. M. van der Hulst

Using new ultraviolet (UV) spectra of five background quasars from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, we analyze the low-latitude (|b|=20-30 degree) regions of the Fermi Bubbles, the giant gamma-ray emitting…

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) discovered in the Milky Way (MW) halo are thought to be ejected from near the massive black hole (MBH) at the galactic centre. In this paper we investigate the spatial and velocity distributions of the HVSs which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Blake D. Sherwin , Abraham Loeb , Ryan M. O'Leary

From the analysis of sensitive HI 21-cm line observations, we find evidence for vertically extended HI emission (|z|<~2.4 kpc) in the edge-on, low surface brightness spiral galaxy UGC7321. Three-dimensional modelling suggests that the HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. D. Matthews , Kenneth Wood

We have used the WSRT to carry out an unbiased wide-field survey of HI emission features, achieving an RMS sensitivity of about 18 mJy/Beam at a velocity resolution of 17 km/s over 1800 deg^2. In this paper we present our HI detections at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Braun , David Thilker

In this letter, we report the discovery of a fast neutral hydrogen outflow in SDSS J145239.38+062738.0, a merging radio galaxy containing an optical type I active galactic nuclei (AGN). This discovery was made through observations conducted…

We present new multi-configuration VLA HI spectral line observations of the M81 group dIrr post-starburst galaxy DDO 165. The HI morphology is complex, with multiple column density peaks surrounding a large region of very low HI surface…

Galactic high-velocity clouds (HVCs) are known to be complex, multiphase systems consisting of neutral and/or ionized gas moving at high velocities relative to the rotation of the disk. In this work, we investigate Milky Way-like galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Scott Lucchini , Jiwon Jesse Han , Lars Hernquist , Charlie Conroy , Andrew J. Fox

We examine the connection between diffuse ionised gas (DIG), HII regions, and field O and B stars in the nearby spiral M101 and its dwarf companion NGC 5474 using ultra-deep H$\alpha$ narrow-band imaging and archival GALEX UV imaging. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 A. E. Watkins , J. C. Mihos , P. Harding , R. Garner

We have used the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer to search for OVI 1031.926, 1037.617 A emission in the halos of the edge-on spiral galaxies NGC4631 and NGC891. In NGC4631, we detected OVI in emission toward a soft X-ray bubble above…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Otte , E. M. Murphy , J. C. Howk , Q. D. Wang , W. R. Oegerle , K. R. Sembach

Various scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of the Galactic high-velocity clouds, predicting different distances and implying widely varying properties for the Galaxy's gaseous halo. To eliminate the difficulties of studying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric D. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

The discovery of hypervelocity stars (HVS) leaving our galaxy with speeds of nearly $10^{3}$ km s$^{-1}$ has provided strong evidence towards the existence of a massive compact object at the galaxy's center. HVS ejected via the disruption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 James Guillochon , Abraham Loeb