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We present high spatial resolution ($52$ au) observations of the high-mass young stellar object (HMYSO) G345.4938+01.4677 made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA). This O-type HMYSO is located at 2.38 kpc and it…

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Dust grains with sizes around (sub)mm are expected to couple only weakly to the gas motion in regions beyond 10 au of circumstellar disks. In this work, we investigate the influence of the spatial distribution of such grains on the (sub)mm…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 J. P. Ruge , M. Flock , S. Wolf , N. Dzyurkevich , S. Fromang , Th. Henning , H. Klahr , H. Meheut

Detecting planet signatures in protoplanetary disks is fundamental to understanding how and where planets form. In this work, we report dust and gas observational hints of planet formation in the disk around 2MASS-J16120668-301027, as part…

We wish to investigate the structure, velocity field, and stellar content of the G16.59-0.05 high-mass star-forming region, where previous studies have established the presence of two almost perpendicular (NE-SW and SE-NW), massive…

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We present long-slit HST/STIS measurements of the ionized-gas kinematics in the nucleus of three disk galaxies, namely NGC 2179, NGC 4343, NGC 4435. The sample galaxies have been selected on the basis of their ground-based spectroscopy, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Coccato , E. Dalla Bonta' , M. Sarzi , A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , F. Bertola

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 5 and Cycle 6 observations of CO(2$-$1) and CO(3$-$2) emission at 0.2''$-$0.3'' resolution in two radio-bright, brightest group/cluster early-type galaxies, NGC 315 and…

We apply novel survival analysis techniques to investigate the relationship between a number of the properties of galaxies and their atomic ($M_\mathrm{HI}$) and molecular ($M_{\mathrm{H_2}}$) gas mass, with the aim of devising efficient,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho

In recent years, ALMA has been able to observe large-scale substructures within protoplanetary disks. Comparison with the predictions from models of planet-disk interaction has indicated that most of these disk substructures can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Benjamin Burrill , Luca Ricci , Sarah Harter , Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

We present multi-wavelengths observations and a radiative transfer model of a newly discovered massive circumstellar disk of gas and dust which is one of the largest disks known today. Seen almost edge-on, the disk is resolved in…

The co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) underpins our understanding of galaxy evolution, but different methods to measure SMBH masses have only infrequently been cross-checked. We attempt to identify targets to…

Unresolved gas and dust observations show a surprising diversity in the amount of interstellar matter in early-type galaxies. Using ALMA observations we resolve the ISM in z$\sim$0.05 early-type galaxies. From a large sample of early-type…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-08 A. E. Sansom , D. H. W. Glass , G. J. Bendo , T. A. Davis , K. Rowlands , N. Bourne , L. Dunne , S. Eales , S. Kaviraj , C. Popescu , M. Smith , S. Viaene

The detection of GW230529_181500 suggested the existence of more symmetric black hole-neutron star mergers where the black hole mass can be as low as 2.6 times that of the neutron star. Black hole-neutron star binaries with even more…

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The clumpy maser disks observed in some galactic nuclei mark the outskirts of the accretion disk that fuels the central black hole and provide a potential site of nuclear star formation. Unfortunately, most of the gas in maser disks is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Abraham Loeb

Circumstellar disks are thought to experience a rapid "transition" phase in their evolution that can have a considerable impact on the formation and early development of planetary systems. We present new and archival high angular resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Sean Andrews , David Wilner , Catherine Espaillat , A. M. Hughes , C. P. Dullemond , M. K. McClure , Chunhua Qi , J. M. Brown

We present ALMA Band 6 observations of the CO(2-1), HCN(3-2), and HCO$^{+}$(3-2) lines in the nearby radio galaxy / brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of NGC 1275 with the spatial resolution of $\sim20$ pc. In the previous observations, CO(2-1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 H. Nagai , K. Onishi , N. Kawakatu , Y. Fujita , M. Kino , Y. Fukazawa , J. Lim , W. Forman , J. Vrtilek , K. Nakanishi , H. Noda , K. Asada , K. Wajima , Y. Ohyama , L. David

High-angular resolution observations at sub-millimeter/millimeter wavelengths of disks surrounding young stars have shown that their morphology is made of azimuthally-symmetric or point-symmetric substructures, in some cases with spiral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Diana Blanco , Luca Ricci , Mario Flock , Neal Turner

High-resolution observations of the central few 100 pc of the galactic nuclear environments remain prohibitive for large statistical samples, which are crucial for tracing the links between central black hole formation, galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anca Constantin

The majority of massive black holes (MBHs) likely hosted gas discs during their lifetimes. These could either be long-lived active galactic nuclei (AGN) discs, or shorter-lived discs formed following singular gas infall events, as was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-12 Aleksey Generozov , Hagai B. Perets

The rotation curves of regularly rotating disc galaxies are a unique probe of the gravitational potential and dark matter distribution. Until recently, matter decomposition of rotation curves at $z>0.5$ was challenging, not only due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

A typical galaxy is thought to contain tens of millions of stellar-mass black holes, the collapsed remnants of once massive stars, and a single nuclear supermassive black hole. Both classes of black holes accrete gas from their…