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The environments surrounding nine Wolf-Rayet stars were studied in molecular emission. Expanding shells were detected surrounding these WR stars (see left panels of Figure 1). The average masses and radii of the molecular cores surrounding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tie Liu , Yuefang Wu , Huawei Zhang

G15.9+0.2 is a Galactic shell-type supernova remnant (SNR), which was detected in radio and has been confirmed in X-rays based on Chandra observations. An X-ray point source CXOUJ181852.0-150213 has been detected and suggested to be an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Manami Sasaki , Minja M. Maäkelaä , Dmitry Klochkov , Andrea Santangelo , Valery Suleimanov

We report the detection of a ring like HI structure toward l=90.0, b=2.8 with a velocity of v_LSR=-99 km/s. This velocity implies a distance of d=13 kpc, corresponding to a Galactocentric radius of R_gal=15 kpc. The l-v_LSR diagram implies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bulent Uyaniker , Roland Kothes

We present low frequency wide band observations (300-500 MHz) of the star forming complex G351.7-1.2 using upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), India. Combining this with the optical, infrared and submillimeter data, we analyse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 V. S. Veena , S. Vig , B. Sebastian , D. V. Lal , A. Tej , S. K. Ghosh

Using the Subaru 8.2m Telescope with an IRCS Echelle spectrograph, we obtained high-resolution (R=10,000) near-infrared (1.01-1.38 \mu m) spectra of images A and B of the gravitationally lensed QSO B1422+231 (z=3.628) consisting of four…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-12 Satoshi Hamano , Naoto Kobayashi , Sohei Kondo , Takuji Tsujimoto , Katsuya Okoshi , Toshikazu Shigeyama

The effect of a newly born star cluster inside a giant molecular cloud (GMC) is to produce a hot bubble and a thin, dense shell of interstellar gas and dust swept up by the H II expansion, strong stellar winds, and repeated supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lihong Yao , T. A. Bell , S. Viti , J. A. Yates , E. R. Seaquist

We investigate the environment in the vicinity of the supernova remnant (SNR) G59.5+0.1 and identify all young stellar objects (YSOs) around the SNR, to derive the physical properties, obtain insight into the star-formation history, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jin-Long Xu , Jun-Jie Wang

We analyze the distribution of the interstellar matter in the environs of the HII region Gum31, excited by the open cluster NGC3324, located in the complex Carina region, with the aim of investigating the action of the massive stars on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Cappa , V. S. Niemela , R. Amorin , J. Vasquez

Aims: We wish to establish whether sequential star formation is taking place at the periphery of the Galactic HII region Sh2-212. Methods: We present CO millimetre observations of this region obtained at the IRAM 30-m telescope to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Deharveng , B. Lefloch , S. Kurtz , D. Nadeau , M. Pomarès , J. Caplan , A. Zavagno

Dense, star-forming gas is believed to form at the stagnation points of large-scale ISM flows, but observational examples of this process in action are rare. We here present a giant molecular cloud (GMC) sandwiched between two colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. R. Dawson , E. Ntormousi , Y. Fukui , T. Hayakawa , K. Fierlinger

We report the first detection of optical emission from the shell-type Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G108.2$-$0.6. We obtained H$\alpha$ images and long-slit spectra using the 1.5-m RTT150 telescope to examine the morphological and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 Gunay Payli , Hicran Bakis , Ebru Aktekin , Hidetoshi Sano , Aytap Sezer

We present a 142-ks Chandra observation of the enigmatic combination supernova remnant G310.6-1.6 consisting of a bright pulsar-wind nebula driven by an energetic pulsar, surrounded by a highly circular, very faint shell with a featureless,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

We performed a multi-wavelength study toward the filamentary cloud G47.06+0.26 to investigate the gas kinematics and star formation. We present the 12CO (J=1-0), 13CO (J=1-0) and C18O (J=1-0) observations of G47.06+0.26 obtained with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Jin-Long Xu , Ye Xu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Xiao-Lan Liu , Naiping Yu , Chang-Chun Ning , Bing-Gang Ju

To investigate the environment of HII region Sh2-163 and search for evidence of triggered star formation in this region, we performed a multi-wavelength study of this HII region. Most of our data were taken from large-scale surveys: 2MASS,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-14 Naiping Yu , Jun-Jie Wang , Nan Li

The $l=-1.2^{\circ}$ region in the Galactic center has a high CO $J$=3-2/$J$=1-0 intensity ratio and extremely broad velocity width. This paper reports the detection of five expanding shells in the $l=-1.2^{\circ}$ region based on the CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Shiho Tsujimoto , Tomoharu Oka , Shunya Takekawa , Masaya Yamada , Sekito Tokuyama , Yuhei Iwata , Justin A. Roll

We identify the radio-emitting shell-type supernova remnant G15.9+0.2 as a relatively young remnant containing an X-ray point source that may be its associated neutron star. The integrated spectrum of the remnant shell obtained from our 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski , U. Hwang , I. Harrus , R. Petre , G. Dubner

We study the formation of low-mass and extremely metal-poor stars in the early universe. Our study is motivated by the recent discovery of a low-mass (M < 0.8 Msun) and extremely metal-poor (Z <= 4.5 x 10^{-5} Zsun) star in the Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Gen Chiaki , Naoki Yoshida , Tetsu Kitayama

We have carried out 12CO, 13CO, and C18O observations toward the mixed morphology supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443. The observations cover a 1.5*1.5 deg^2 area and allow us to investigate the overall molecular environment of the remnant. Some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-29 Yang Su , Min Fang , Ji Yang , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen

We present for the first time the detection of mid-J CO line emission in the outskirts of an evolved massive star, which indicates the presence of warm and/or high density molecular gas. Aiming to learn about the interplay between evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. R. Rizzo , F. M. Jimenez-Esteban , E. Ortiz

We report the results obtained from a multi-wavelength study of the HII region, G18.148$-$0.283, using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at 1350 MHz along with other archival data. In addition to the radio continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-28 Jyotirmoy Dey , Jagadheep D. Pandian , Dharam Vir Lal