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We present deep maps of dust emission from the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891, obtained with the ISOPHOT instrument on board the Infrared Space Observatory in broad band filters with reference wavelengths centered on 170 and 200 micron.…

Halos surrounding spiral galaxies act as the bridges connecting the galactic disk and the intergalactic medium (IGM). They host a significant fraction of the baryonic mass in the Universe, and feedback from star formation (SF) or active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 D. Jiménez-López , S. García-Burillo , M. Querejeta , A. Usero , P. Tarrío

Radiative transfer models were developed to understand the optical polarizations in edge-on galaxies, which are observed to occur even outside the geometrically thin dust disk, with a scale height of ~ 0.2 kpc. In order to reproduce the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Kwang-Il Seon

We present high-resolution (<0.7") ground-based images of the edge-on spiral galaxies NGC 891 (D=9.5 Mpc) and NGC 4013 (D=17 Mpc) acquired with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope. These BVI + H-alpha images reveal complex webs of dusty interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Christopher Howk , Blair D. Savage

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

The results of the stellar photometry of the images ACS/WFC and WFPC2 of the HST are used to study stellar population and spatial distribution of stars in three edge-on galaxies: NGC 891, NGC 4144 and NGC 4244. The measuring of the number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Tikhonov , O. A. Galazutdinova

We present new, deep optical images (BVI+H-alpha) of the interstellar medium (ISM) far above the plane of NGC 891. These sub-arcsecond images give a direct visual view of two physically distinct ``phases'' of the thick interstellar disk of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Christopher Howk , Blair D. Savage

We present a study of ionized gas, PAHs, and molecular hydrogen emission in the halos of three edge-on galaxies, NGC 891, NGC 5775 and NGC 3044, based on 10-20 micron Spitzer Space Telescope spectra. The [Ne III]/[Ne II] ratio, an excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Richard J. Rand , Kenneth Wood , Robert A. Benjamin , Sharon E. Meidt

The advent of submillimeter wavelength array cameras operating on large ground-based telescopes is revolutionizing imaging at these wavelengths, enabling high-resolution submillimeter surveys of dust emission in star-forming regions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Serabyn , D. C. Lis , C. D. Dowell , D. J. Benford , T. R. Hunter , M. Trewhella , S. H. Moseley

We present high resolution BV images of 12 edge-on spiral galaxies observed with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope. These images were obtained to search for extraplanar (|z| > 0.4 kpc) absorbing dust structures similar to those previously found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Christopher Howk , Blair D. Savage

We present the results from an analysis of deep Herschel far-infrared observations of the edge-on disk galaxy NGC 3079. The PSF-cleaned PACS images at 100 and 160 um display a 25 kpc x 25 kpc X-shape structure centered on the nucleus that…

Neutral hydrogen observations of the nearby, edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891 reveal the presence of an HI halo extending up to at least 5 kpc from the plane. This halo gas appears to rotate 25 to 100 km/s more slowly than the gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 R. A. Swaters , R. Sancisi , J. M. van der Hulst

We explore the nature of variations in dust emission within an individual galaxy using 3.6 - 160 micron Spitzer Space Telescope observations and 450 and 850 micron James Clerk Maxwell Telescope observations of the edge-on Sd spiral galaxy…

NGC 891 is a nearby edge-on galaxy that is similar to the Milky Way and has a hot X-ray emitting halo that could arise from accretion, a galactic fountain, or a combination of the two. The metallicity of the gas can help distinguish between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck , Joel N. Bregman

Context. Edge-on spiral galaxies with prominent dust lanes provide us with an excellent opportunity to study the distribution and properties of the dust within them. The HEROES project was set up to observe a sample of seven large edge-on…

We present infrared spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope at one disk position and two positions at a height of 1 kpc from the disk in the edge-on spiral NGC 891, with the primary goal of studying halo ionization. Our main result is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard J. Rand , Kenneth Wood , Robert A. Benjamin

We present a structural analysis of NGC891, an edge-on galaxy that has long been considered to be an analogue of the Milky Way. Using starcounts derived from deep HST/ACS images, we detect the presence of a thick disk component in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodrigo Ibata , Mustapha Mouhcine , Marina Rejkuba

Galaxies are surrounded by halos of hot gas whose mass and origin remain unknown. One of the most challenging properties to measure is the metallicity, which constrains both of these. We present a measurement of the metallicity around NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Joel N. Bregman , Jiang-tao Li