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Photons emitted during the epochs of Hydrogen ($500 \lesssim z \lesssim 1600$) and Helium recombination ($1600 \lesssim z \lesssim 3500$ for HeII $\rightarrow$ HeI, $5000 \lesssim z \lesssim 8000$ for HeIII $\rightarrow$ HeII) are predicted…

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We use a high-resolution hydrodynamic simulation that tracks the non-equilibrium abundance of molecular hydrogen within a massive high-redshift galaxy to produce mock Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) maps of the fine-structure lines of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Matteo Tomassetti , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Diaz , Aaron D. Ludlow , Padelis P. Papadopoulos

A detailed analysis of the data from a high sampling rate, multi-month reverberation mapping campaign, undertaken primarily at MDM Observatory with supporting observations from telescopes around the world, reveals that the Hbeta emission…

We report here Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) N$_2$H$^+$ (1-0) images of the Orion Molecular Cloud 2 and 3 (OMC-2/3) with high angular resolution (3'' or 1200 au) and high spatial dynamic range. Combining dataset from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Nannan Yue , Di Li , Qizhou Zhang , Lei Zhu , Jonathan Henshaw , Diego Mardones , Zhiyuan Ren

The strongest known correspondence between ALMA 3mm emission and other solar observations is between the H-alpha line width and 3 mm brightness temperature, while the typical 3-5min p-mode oscillations found in many chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Lucas A. Tarr , Adam R. Kobelski , Sarah A. Jaeggli , Momchil Molnar , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin P. Reardon

We discuss aspects of non-LTE line formation for hydrogen in early-type stars. We evaluate the effect of variations in the electron-impact excitation cross sections in model atoms of differing complexity by comparison with observation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norbert Przybilla , Keith Butler

We present zELDA(redshift Estimator for Line profiles of Distant Lyman-Alpha emitters), an open source code to fit Lyman-Alpha (Lya) line profiles. The main motivation is to provide the community with an easy to use and fast tool to analyze…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Siddhartha Gurung-Lopez , Max Gronke , Shun Saito , Silvia Bonoli , Alvaro A. Orsi

New X-ray observatories (Chandra and XMM-Newton) are providing a wealth of high-resolution X-ray spectra in which hydrogen- and helium-like ions are usually strong features. We present results from a new collisional-radiative plasma code,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Randall K. Smith , Nancy S. Brickhouse , Duane A. Liedahl , John C. Raymond

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the sub-millimeter and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the infrared have achieved robust spectroscopic detections of emission lines from the interstellar medium (ISM) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 Shengqi Yang , Adam Lidz , Aaron Smith , Andrew Benson , Hui Li

We investigate the role of non-thermal electrons in the formation regions of Halpha, Hbeta, and Hgamma lines in order to unfold their influence on the formation of these lines. We concentrate on pulse-beam heating varying on a subsecond…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Kasparova , M. Varady , P. Heinzel , M. Karlicky , Z. Moravec

High resolution (0.15") Very Large Array observations of 7 mm continuum and H53a line emission toward the hypercompact H II region G28.20-0.04N reveal the presence of large-scale ordered motions. We find a velocity gradient of 1000 km/s/pc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Sewilo , E. Churchwell , S. Kurtz , W. M. Goss , P. Hofner

The VLA has been used at 8.3 GHz in the DnC and CnB array configurations to carry out an H92alpha recombination line study (at 8.3 GHz) of the ionized gas in the Arched Filaments H II complex, which defines the western edge of the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cornelia C. Lang , W. M. Goss , Mark Morris

We compare emission line intensities from photoionization models of smooth and fractal shell geometries for low density H II regions, with particular focus on the low-ionization diagnostic diagram [N II]/H-alpha vs H-alpha. Building on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Kenneth Wood , J. E. Barnes , Barbara Ercolano , L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds , J. Dale

We present results of a search for carbon recombination lines in the Galaxy at 34.5 MHz (C$575\alpha$) made using the dipole array at Gauribidanur near Bangalore. Observations made towards 32 directions, led to detections of lines in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. G. Kantharia , K. R. Anantharamaiah

Various types of galaxies observed in the cosmological scales show P-Cygni type profiles in the Lyman alpha emission lines. A Monte Carlo code is developed to investigate the Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick and moving medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee

We survey the results of a long-term study of the process of radiative recombination. A rigorous theory of nonrelativistic electron radiative recombination with a hydrogen-like ion is used to calculate the total cross section of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Igor A. Kotelnikov , Alexander I. Milstein

Observational studies of HII region-molecular cloud interactions constrain models of feedback and quantify its impact on the surrounding environment. A recent hypothesis proposes that a characteristic spectral signature in ground state…

We observe Arp 220, the nearest Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG), over 4 GHz in the K and Ka bands. We provide constraints for the kinematics,morphology, and identify molecular species on scales resolving both nuclei (0.6" or 230 pc).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Laura K. Zschaechner , Jürgen Ott , Fabian Walter , David S. Meier , Emmanuel Momjian , Nick Scoville

The ALMA SPECtroscopic Survey in the {\it Hubble} Ultra Deep Field is an ALMA large program that obtained a frequency scan in the 3\,mm band to detect emission lines from the molecular gas in distant galaxies. We here present our search…