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Star formation in the Local spiral arm in the direction of the Galactic longitudes 132--158 deg is reviewed. Recent star-forming activity in this Milky Way direction is evidenced by the presence here of the Cam OB1 association and dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-19 V. Straizys , V. Laugalys

New ALMA CO, HCO+, and 100 GHz continuum observations and Gemini NIFS K-band spectra are combined with previous radio to X-ray data to study Feature i, a highly luminous starburst clump on an outer arm of the interacting galaxy NGC 2207.…

The detailed spiral structure in the outer Galactic disk is still poorly known, and for several Galactic directions we rely on model extrapolations. One of these regions is the fourth Galactic quadrant, in the sector comprised between Vela…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giovanni Carraro , Edgardo Costa

We discuss the results of the first model of the gas dynamics in the Milky Way in the presence of two bars: the large scale primary bar or boxy bulge and a secondary bar in the Galactic center region. We have obtained an accurate potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-21 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez

The details of the spiral structure of the Milky Way are still debated due to large uncertainties in the distance estimates obtained through the most common tracers. X-ray dust scattering rings produced by short extragalactic X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 B. Vaia , I. Fornasiero , A. Tiengo , A. Bracco , V. Jelić , Ž. Bošnjak , F. Pintore , P. Esposito

We use the largest open clusters catalogue in the post-Gaia era to provide the observational view of the Galactic disk. By compiling the physical parameters like age, distance, and kinematic information, we investigate the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Yogesh C. Joshi , Sagar Malhotra

We present the first detection of a large quantity of molecular gas in the extended tail of an interacting galaxy. Using the NRAO 12m telescope, we have detected CO (1 - 0) at five locations in the eastern tail of the peculiar starburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Beverly J. Smith , Curtis Struck , Jeffrey D. P. Kenney , Shardha Jogee

As part of the BeSSeL Survey, we report trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of molecular maser sources associated with 13 distant high mass star forming regions in the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way. In particular, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Y. W. Wu , M. J. Reid , N. Sakai , T. M. Dame , K. M. Menten , A. Brunthaler , Y. Xu , J. J. Li , B. Ho , B. Zhang , K. L. J. Rygl , X. W. Zheng

We report the discovery of two symmetric spiral arms in the near-infrared (NIR) images of the starburst galaxy M82. The spiral arms are recovered when an axi-symmetric exponential disk is subtracted from the NIR images. The arms emerge from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. D. Mayya , L. Carrasco , A. Luna

We explore the development of structures in molecular gas in the Milky Way by applying the analysis of the brightness distribution function (BDF) and the brightness distribution index (BDI) in the archival data from the Boston…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Tsuyoshi Sawada , Tetsuo Hasegawa , Jin Koda

We report measurements of trigonometric parallaxes for six high-mass star-forming regions in the Scutum spiral arm of the Milky Way as part of the BeSSeL Survey. Combining our measurements with 10 previous measurements from the BeSSeL…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Sato , Y. W. Wu , K. Immer , B. Zhang , A. Sanna , M. J. Reid , T. M. Dame , A. Brunthaler , K. M. Menten

CONTEXT. One of the most difficult and unexplored regions of the Milky Way is the highly extincted in-plane central region within the Galactic coordinates $10^\circ \lesssim |\ell |\lesssim 30^\circ $, $|b|\lesssim 3^\circ $, where we have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 M. Lopez-Corredoira , W. Wu , H. -F. Wang , F. Garzon

The spiral arm tangencies are ideal lines of sight in which to determine the distribution of interstellar gas components in the spiral arms and study the influence of spiral density waves on the interarm gas in the Milky Way. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-15 T. Velusamy , W. D. Langer , P. F. Goldsmith , J. L. Pineda

We present the detections of CO line emission in the central galaxy of sixteen extreme cooling flow clusters using the IRAM 30m and the JCMT 15m. These detections of CO(1-0), CO(2-1), CO(3-2) and CO(4-3) are consistent with the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 A. C. Edge

We present the results of CO interferometric observations of the southern elliptical galaxy NGC3557 with ALMA. We have detected both the CO(1-0) emission line and a relatively strong continuum at 3mm. The continuum shows a flat-spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 B. Vila-Vilaro , D. Espada , P. Cortes , S. Leon , E. Pompei , J. Cepa

Mapping the Galactic spiral structure is a difficult task since the Sun is located in the Galactic plane and because of dust extinction. For these reasons, molecular masers in radio wavelengths have been used with great success to trace the…

We carry out analyses of some parameters of the galactic spiral arms, in the currently available samples. We present a catalog of the observed pitch angle for each spiral arm in the Milky Way disk. For each long spiral arm in the Milky Way,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Jacques P Vallee

The line of sight through the Galactic Plane between longitudes l = 37.83 degr and l = 42.50 degr allows for the separation of Galactic Ring Survey molecular clouds into those that fall within the spiral arms and those located in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 D. J. Eden , T. J. T. Moore , L. K. Morgan , M. A. Thompson , J. S. Urquhart

We present a new 12CO(J=1-0)-line survey of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, covering the bright disk with the highest resolution to date (85 pc along the major axis), observed On-the-Fly (in italics) with the IRAM 30-m telescope. We discuss the…

In the inner 3kpc of M51 we find that logarithmic spirals provide good fits to the peak intensities in molecular gas observed by BIMA in the CO (J=1-0) emission line along the spiral arms. However, we measure significant asymmetries between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alaina L. Henry , A. C. Quillen , Robert Gutermuth