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We present HST/STIS spectra of the Sbc spiral galaxy NGC 4041 which were used to map the velocity field of the gas in its nuclear region. We detect the presence of a compact (r~0.4" ~40 pc), high surface brightness, rotating nuclear disk…

We present Halpha rotation curves for a sample of 15 dwarf and LSB galaxies. From these, we derive limits on the slopes of the central mass distributions. Assuming the density distributions of dark matter halos follow a power-law at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Swaters , B. F. Madore , F. C. van den Bosch , M. Balcells

Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are dense clusters of stars that reside in the centers of a majority of the galaxies. In this paper, we study the density profiles for 29 galaxies in a volume-limited survey within 10 Mpc to characterize their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Renuka Pechetti , Anil Seth , Nadine Neumayer , Iskren Georgiev , Nikolay Kacharov , Mark den Brok

Using a nearest neighbor analysis, we construct a sample of void galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and compare the photometric properties of these galaxies to the population of non-void (wall) galaxies. We trace the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Randall R. Rojas , Michael S. Vogeley , Fiona Hoyle , Jon Brinkmann

The surface-brightness profiles of galaxies are well described by the S\'ersic law: systems with high S\'ersic index m have steep central profiles and shallow outer profiles, while systems with low m have shallow central profiles and steep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Carlo Nipoti

We derive radial profiles of the surface-mass-density for 19 spiral galaxies directly from their high-resolution rotation curves. Using the corresponding luminosity profiles, we obtain the radial distribution of the mass-to-luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Takamiya , Y. Sofue

We have explored radial color and stellar surface mass density profiles for a sample of 85 late-type spiral galaxies with deep (down to ~27 mag arcsec^-2) SDSS g'- and r'-band surface brightness profiles. About 90% of the light profiles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Judit Bakos , Ignacio Trujillo , Michael Pohlen , ;

The S\'ersic or $R^{1/m}$ model has become the de facto standard model to describe the surface brightness profiles of early-type galaxies and the bulges of spiral galaxies. The photometric, intrinsic, and dynamical properties of this model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Maarten Baes , Luca Ciotti

We present photometric and spectroscopic measurements of 53 QSO-galaxy pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, where nebular emission lines from a 0<z<0.84 foreground galaxy are detected in the fiber spectra of a background QSO, bringing…

We report the results of high-resolution 5 GHz Very Long Baseline Array and European VLBI Network observations of 36 nearby galaxies, an extension of the Legacy e-MERLIN Multi-band Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (LeMMINGs) survey. Our sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Xiaopeng Cheng , Tao An , Willem Baan , Raneri D. Baldi , David R. A. Williams-Baldwin , Bong Won Sohn , Robert Beswick , Ian M. Mchardy

We present archival high spatial resolution VLA and VLBA data of the nuclei of seven of the nearest and brightest Seyfert galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere. At VLA resolution (~0.1 arcsec), the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxies is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Orienti , M. A. Prieto

Although early observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) pointed to a sharp dichotomy among early-type galaxies in terms of the logarithmic slope gamma' of their central surface brightness profiles, several studies in the past few…

Motivated by recent observations that suggest a low density of old stars around the Milky Way supermassive black hole, models for the nuclear star cluster are considered that have not yet reached a steady state under the influence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 David Merritt

Based on the SDSS data, the properties of galaxies with quenched star formation (QGs) within the "splashback"-radius of galaxy clusters $R_{\rm sp}$ and beyond it have been studied. We used a sample of 40 groups and galaxy clusters and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Flera G. Kopylova , Alexander I. Kopylov

Genuine spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the central few parsec of the nearest and brightest active galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere are presented. They are compiled from very high spatial resolution observations in the radio…

Clusters of galaxies are excellent locations to probe the distribution of baryons and dark matter (DM) over a wide range of scales. We study a sample of seven massive, relaxed galaxy clusters with centrally-located brightest cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew B. Newman , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , David J. Sand , Carlo Nipoti , Johan Richard , Eric Jullo

HST images of NGC 3379 show that the V and I luminosity profiles in the inner 13 arcsec of this E1 galaxy are represented by two different components: a stellar bulge following a Sersic Law with exponent n = 2.36, and a central core (r <…

We have studied the X-ray nuclear activity of 187 nearby (distance < 15 Mpc) galaxies observed with Chandra/ACIS. We found that 86 of them have a point-like X-ray core, consistent with an accreting black hole (BH). We argue that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Wei Ming Zhang , Roberto Soria , Shuang Nan Zhang , Douglas A. Swartz , JiFeng Liu

We report 75 milli-arcsec resolution, near-IR imaging spectroscopy within the central 30 light days of the Galactic Center [...]. To a limiting magnitude of K~16, 9 of 10 stars in the central 0.4 arcsec, and 13 of 17 stars out to 0.7 arcsec…

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