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In this work, we derive a spatially resolved map of the line-of-sight velocity of the interstellar medium and use it, along with a second map of line-of-sight velocity from Paper I of this series, to determine the nature of gaseous spiral…

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Studying the nature of spiral arms is essential for understanding the formation of the intricate disc structure of the Milky Way. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has provided revolutionary observational data that have uncovered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Natsuki Funakoshi , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Daisuke Taniguchi , Michiko Fujii

The rotation curve is significant to research on dark matter and the structure of the Milky Way. But it is a great challenge to measure rotation curve accurately, and different ways obtain distinct results. In this work, we use a DIY small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Hong-Yu Li , Jia-Hao Hu

Recent JWST observations have revealed the prevalence of spiral structures at $z > 1$. Unlike in the local Universe, the origin and the consequence of spirals at this epoch remain unexplored. We use public JWST/NIRCam data from the…

Star formation occurs in molecular gas. In previous studies, the structure of the molecular gas has been studied in terms of molecular clouds, but has been overlooked beyond the cloud scale. We present an observational study of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-01 Guang-Xing Li , Friedrich Wyrowski , Karl Menten , Arnaud Belloche

We report four trigonometric parallaxes for high-mass star-forming regions within 4 kpc of the Galactic center. These measurements were made with the VLBA as part of the BeSSeL Survey. By associating these sources kinematically with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Sanna , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten , T. M. Dame , B. Zhang , M. Sato , A. Brunthaler , L. Moscadelli , K. Immer

We define the molecular cloud properties of the Milky Way first quadrant using data from the JCMT CO(3-2) High Resolution Survey. We apply the Spectral Clustering for Interstellar Molecular Emission Segmentation (SCIMES) algorithm to…

The outer Galaxy presents an optimal setting for investigating molecular clouds and star formation in environments with low metallicity. A total of 72 Galactic edge clouds were surveyed using the CO\,(2--1) line with the IRAM\,30\,m…

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

We have performed a statistical analysis of a sample of 1100 extra-galactic rotation measures (RMs) obtained from the literature. Using a subsample of approximately 800 reliable RMs we compute a rotation measure sky and determine reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Johnston-Hollitt , C. P. Hollitt , R. D. Ekers

We present a map of the spiral structure of the Galaxy, as traced by molecular CS emission associated with IRAS sources which are believed to be compact HII regions. The CS line velocities are used to determine the kinematic distances of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 J. R. D. Lepine , A. Roman-Lopes , Zulema Abraham , T. C. Junqueira , Yu. N. Mishurov

In the last few decades many efforts have been made to understand the effect of spiral arms on the gas and stellar dynamics in the Milky Way disc. One of the fundamental parameters of the spiral structure is its angular velocity, or pattern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-04 T. C. Junqueira , C. Chiappini , J. R. D. Lépine , I. Minchev , B. X. Santiago

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way is mostly obscured by nearby gas in position-velocity space because we reside inside the Galaxy. Substantial biases exist in most studies on the Milky Way's CGM that focus on easier-to-detect…

The extra-planar H I in the inner parts of the Milky Way has been discovered to contain numerous cloud-like structures when observed in the 21cm line with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These halo clouds have motions consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Felix J. Lockman , Yurii Pidopryhora

The Galactic global magnetic field is thought to play a vital role in shaping Galactic structures such as spiral arms and giant molecular clouds. However, our knowledge of magnetic field structures in the Galactic plane at different…

We present a new joint analysis of pulsar dispersion measures and diffuse H-alpha emission in the Milky Way, which we use to derive the density, pressure and filling factor of the thick disk component of the warm ionised medium (WIM) as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. M. Gaensler , G. J. Madsen , S. Chatterjee , S. A. Mao

Using high-resolution ultraviolet spectra obtained with the HST/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, we study the metallicity, kinematics, and distance of the gaseous "Outer Arm" (OA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Todd M. Tripp , Limin Song

We report systematic variations in the CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) line ratio (R) in M51. The ratio shows clear evidence for the evolution of molecular gas from the upstream interarm regions, passage into the spiral arms and back into the downstream…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Koda , N. Scoville , T. Hasegawa , D. Calzetti , J. Donovan Meyer , F. Egusa , R. Kennicutt , N. Kuno , M. Louie , R. Momose , T. Sawada , K. Sorai , M. Umei

We present the Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS), which maps portions of the first Galactic quadrant with an angular resolution, sensitivity and dynamic range that surpasses existing radio images of the Milky Way by more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 David J. Helfand , Robert H. Becker , Richard L. White , Adam Fallon , Sarah Tuttle

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a vast gaseous structure in the Milky Way halo, containing most of its mass in ionized form and tracing the interaction between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Galaxy. Using HST/COS G160M spectra…