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Extended nebular filaments are seen at optical wavelengths in NGC 1275, the central galaxy in the Perseus cluster. The agents responsible for the excitation of these filaments remain poorly understood. In this paper we investigate possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Sabra , J. C. Shields , A. V. Filippenko

We report ALMA observations of the most massive (star forming) galaxy in the redshift range 3<z<4 within the whole GOODS-S field. We detect a large elongated structure of molecular gas around the massive primeval galaxy, traced by the…

We present near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of the central kiloparsec of NGC 1275 at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, obtained with the UIST IFU on UKIRT. The nuclear ro-vibrational H_2 emission is spatially resolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. J. Wilman , A. C. Edge , R. M. Johnstone

We present new interferometer observations of the 12CO(1-0) and 12CO(2-1) line emission of NGC 1068 with a resolution of 0.7''. The molecular gas in the inner 5'' is resolved into a ring with two bright knots east and west of the nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Schinnerer , A. Eckart , L. J. Tacconi , R. Genzel , D. Downes

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

We present CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) maps of the LINER galaxy NGC7217, obtained with the IRAM interferometer, at 2.4"x1.9" and 1.2"x0.8" resolution respectively. The nuclear ring (at r=12"=0.8kpc) dominates the CO maps, and has a remarkable sharp…

We investigate the molecular gas content and the excitation and fragmentation properties in the central region of the spiral galaxy Messier 81 in both the ^{12}CO(1-0) and ^{12}CO(2-1) transitions. We have recently observed the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Casasola , F. Combes , D. Bettoni , G. Galletta

Cold molecular gas is found in several clusters of galaxies (Edge, 2001, Salome' & Combes, 2003): single dish telescope observations in CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission lines have revealed the existence of large amounts of cold gas (up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Salome , F. Combes

We present new ALMA CO(2-1) observations tracing $2.2 \times 10^{10}$ solar masses of molecular gas in Abell 2390's brightest cluster galaxy, where half the gas is located in a one-sided plume extending 15 kpc out from the galaxy centre.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 Tom Rose , B. R. McNamara , F. Combes , A. C. Edge , H. Russell , P. Salome , P. Tamhane , A. C. Fabian , G. Tremblay

Maps of the J=2-1 12CO emission from the SbII galaxy NGC 7331 show a low-contrast ring at a radius of about 3.5 kpc. There is no evidence for a pronounced central hole in the CO distribution as claimed by others. The molecular ring is just…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. P. Israel , F. Baas

We have used the Xco conversion factor, Local Thermal Equilibrium and Large Velocity Gradient approximation to parametrize the cold and warm phase of the interstellar medium from five different low transitions of CO in the central 21"(kpc)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nuria Piñol-Ferrer , Kambiz Fathi , Andreas Lundgren , Glenn van de Ven

We present the results of interferometric observations of the cool core of Abell 1795 at CO(1-0) using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy. In agreement with previous work, we detect a significant amount of cold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael McDonald , Lisa H. Wei , Sylvain Veilleux

The physical relationship between low-excitation gas filaments at ~10^4 K, seen in optical line emission, and diffuse X-ray emitting coronal gas at ~10^7 K in the centers of many galaxy clusters is not understood. It is unclear whether the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 W. B. Sparks , J. E. Pringle , R. F. Carswell , M. Donahue , R. Martin , M. Voit , M. Cracraft , N. Manset , J. H. Hough

We present Spitzer high-resolution spectra of off-nuclear regions in the central cluster galaxies NGC 1275 and NGC 4696 in the Perseus and Centaurus clusters, respectively. Both objects are surrounded by extensive optical emission-line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Johnstone , N. Hatch , G. Ferland , A. Fabian , C. Crawford , R. Wilman

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) influence their host galaxies through winds and jets that can drive molecular outflows, traceable with CO line emissions using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Recent studies leveraging ALMA data have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Yuze Zhang , Serena Viti , Santiago García-Burillo , Ko-Yun Huang

We present recent ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) emission lines in the brightest cluster galaxy of RXCJ1504.1$-$0248, which is one of the most extreme cool core clusters known. The central galaxy contains $1.9\times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 A. N. Vantyghem , B. R. McNamara , H. R. Russell , A. C. Edge , P. E. J. Nulsen , F. Combes , A. C. Fabian , M. McDonald , P. Salome

We present new interferometric observations of the 12CO(1-0), 12CO(2-1) and HCN (1-0) molecular line emission in NGC 3227 obtained with the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI). We achieved an unprecedented angular resolution in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Schinnerer , A. Eckart , L. J. Tacconi

NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) is one of the best targets to study AGN-feedback in the local Universe. Optical filaments located at 16 kpc from the galaxy along the radio jet direction show recent star formation, likely triggered by the interaction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-27 Quentin Salomé , Philippe Salomé , Antoine Gusdorf , Françoise Combes

We present observations of the $^{12}$CO(6-5) line and 686GHz continuum emission in NGC253 with the Submillimeter Array at an angular resolution of ~4arcsec. The $^{12}$CO(6-5) emission is clearly detected along the disk and follows the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Melanie Krips , Sergio Martin , Alison Peck , Kazushi Sakamoto , Roberto Neri , Mark Gurwell , Glen Petitpas , Jun-Hui Zhao

within 24 lines with 80 characters) We present ^12CO (1-0) observations in the central 4.5 kpc (1 arcmin) of the Halpha/Radio lobe galaxy NGC 3079 with the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. The molecular gas shows four components: a main disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Koda , Y. Sofue , K. Kohno , H. Nakanishi , S. Onodera , S. K. Okumura , Judith A. Irwin