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We combine ionized gas ([N II] 6583) and stellar central velocity dispersions for a sample of 345 galaxies, with and without active galactic nuclei (AGNs), to study the dynamical state of the nuclear gas and its physical origin. The gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-17 Luis C. Ho

Abridged: The small-- and intermediate--scale structure and the fraction of the ISM ionized by non--radiative processes is investigated in a small sample of four local starburst galaxies, imaged with the HST WFPC2. The sample comprises…

We present Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) observations of fine structure lines toward the Radio Arc region, close to Sgr A, in the Galactic center region (GCR). The ionization at large scale is dominated by the clusters of massive stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado , P. de Vicente

We recently reported the discovery of a regular corrugation pattern in the HI disk of the isolated, edge-on spiral galaxy IC2233. Here we present measurements of the vertical structure of this galaxy at several additional wavelengths,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. D. Matthews , Juan M. Uson

We report new observations of multiple transitions of the CS molecular lines in the SgrA region of the Galactic center, at an angular resolution of 40" (=1.5 pc). The objective of this paper is to study the polar arc, which is a molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-13 Pei-Ying Hsieh , Paul T. P. Ho , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

The light distribution in the disks of many galaxies is non-axisymmetric or `lopsided' with a spatial extent much larger along one half of a galaxy than the other, as in M101. Recent near-IR observations show that lopsidedness is common.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chanda J. Jog , Francoise Combes

The presence of cold ($T \lesssim 10^4$ K) gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies has been confirmed both in observations and high-resolution simulations, but its origin still represents a puzzle. Possible mechanisms are cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Davide Decataldo , Sijing Shen , Lucio Mayer , Bernhard Baumschlager , Piero Madau

We analyzed ionized gas motion and disk orientation parameters for 15 spiral galaxies. Their velocity fields were measured with the H-alpha emission line by using the Fabry-Perot interferometer at the 6m telescope of SAO RAS. Special…

We present observations of HI and OVI absorption systems proximate to a galaxy at z_gal = 0.3529. The absorption was detected serendipitously in Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observations of the low-z QSO J0943+0531 (z_qso = 0.564). The data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Thom , J. K. Werk , J. Tumlinson , J. X. Prochaska , J. D. Meiring , T. M. Tripp , K. R. Sembach

To determine the properties of the ionized gas at the edge of the CMZ near Sgr E we observed a small portion of the edge of the CMZ near Sgr E with spectrally resolved [C II] 158 micron and [N II] 205 micron fine structure lines at six…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 W. D. Langer , P. F. Goldsmith , J. L. Pineda , T. Velusamy , M. A. Requena-Torres , H. Wiesemeyer

The nature of the interaction 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 galaxy clusters remains a puzzle. The presence of a strong,…

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) is an HI and 1.4-GHz continuum survey of the 4th quadrant of the Galaxy at arcmin resolution. We present here results on linearly polarized continuum emission from an initial 28-square-degree Test…

We detect ionized gas characteristics indicative of winds in three disk-dominated galaxies that are members of a super-group at z=0.37 that will merge to form a Coma-mass cluster. All three galaxies are IR-luminous (L_IR > 4 x 10^{10}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Freeland , K-V. Tran , T. Irwin , L. Giordano , A. Saintonge , A. Gonzalez , D. Zaritsky , D. Just

The metallicity of galactic gaseous halos provides insights into accretion and feedback of galaxies. The nearby edge-on galaxy NGC 891 has a multi-component gaseous halo and a background AGN (LQAC 035+042 003) projected 5 kpc above the disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman , Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck

The Local Group member M33 is a pure disk galaxy bearing no prominent bulge or stellar halo. It constitutes a challenge for any hierarchical galaxy formation theory and an ideal laboratory for studying quiescent star formation. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-24 Edvige Corbelli , Laura Magrini , Simon Verley

Gas interior to the bar of the Milky Way has recently been shown as the closest example of a Low Ionization (Nuclear) Emission Region--LI(N)ER--in the universe. To better understand the nature of this gas, a sample of face-on galaxies with…

It is generally assumed that gas in a galactic disk follows closely non self-intersecting periodic stellar orbits. In order to test this common assumption, we have performed MHD simulations of a galactic-like disk under the influence of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Gilberto C. Gómez , Bárbara Pichardo , Marco A. Martos

We present the discovery of a vast cloud of ionized gas 13$^{\prime}$ (32 kpc) north of the interacting system M51. We detected this cloud via deep narrow-band imaging with the Burrell Schmidt Telescope, where it appears as an extended,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Aaron E. Watkins , J. Christopher Mihos , Matthew Bershady , Paul Harding

We present radio continuum observations of the spiral-shaped ionized feature (Sgr A West) within the inner pc of the Galactic center at three epochs spanning 1986 to 1995. The VLA A-configuration was used at $\lambda$2cm (resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Yusef-Zadeh , D. A. Roberts , J. Biretta

There is a linear relation between the mass of dense gas, traced by the HCN(1-0) luminosity, and the star formation rate (SFR), traced by the far-infrared luminosity. Recent observations of galactic disks have shown some systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Hao Chen , Jonathan Braine , Yu Gao , Jin Koda , Qiusheng Gu