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Various theoretical models predict the existence of extended $\gamma$-ray halo around normal galaxies that could be produced by interactions of cosmic rays with the circumgalactic medium or by annihilation or decay of hypothetical dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 M. S. Pshirkov , B. A. Nizamov

We present the primary results from the Dragonfly Edge-on Galaxies Survey (DEGS), an exploration of the stellar halos of twelve nearby ($d < 25$ Mpc) edge-on disc galaxies with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The edge-on orientation of these…

Ultraviolet Luminous Galaxies (UVLGs) have been identified as intensely star-forming, nearby galaxies. A subset of these, the supercompact UVLGs, are believed to be local analogs of high redshift Lyman Break Galaxies. Here we investigate…

We examine the properties of dark matter halos within a rich galaxy cluster using a high resolution simulation that captures the cosmological context of a cold dark matter universe. The mass and force resolution permit the resolution of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

Large and well defined variations exist between the distribution of mass and the light of stars on extragalactic scales. Mass concentrations in the range 10^12 - 10^13 M_sun manifest the most light per unit mass. Group halos in this range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. Brent Tully

We present an atlas of UV ($\sim 2300$ \AA) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central $22''\times 22''$ of 110 galaxies. The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one…

Recent observations have successfully detected UV or infrared flux from galaxies at the epoch of reionization. However, the origin of their radiative properties has not been fully understood yet. Combining cosmological hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Shohei Arata , Hidenobu Yajima , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuexing Li , Sadegh Khochfar

The stellar halos of spiral galaxies bear important chemo-dynamical signatures of galaxy formation. We present here the analysis of 89 semi-cosmological spiral galaxy simulations, spanning ~ 4 magnitudes in total galactic luminosity. These…

We use 666 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the 2Qz redshift survey to map the Galactic halo in four dimensions (position, distance and velocity). We find that the halo extends to at least 100 kpc in Galactocentric distance, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Roberto De Propris , Craig D. Harrison , Peter J. Mares , CTIO , Cornell University

We characterize the morphological properties of a statistically relevant sample of H$\alpha$ and UV young star-forming clumps and optical complexes, observed with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} in six galaxies of the GASP sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Giunchi , E , Poggianti , B. M. , Gullieuszik , M. , Moretti , A. , Werle , A. , Zanella , A. , Vulcani , B. , Tonnesen , S. , Calzetti , D. , Bellhouse , C. , Scarlata , C. , Bacchini , C

We report a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the internal physical properties of dark matter halos. A total of fifteen halos, each represented by $\sim 1$ million particles within the virial radius, have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

The presence of unseen halos of ``dark matter'' has long been inferred from the high rotation speeds of gas and stars in the outer parts of spiral galaxies$^{1}$. The volume density of this dark matter decreases less quickly from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Penny D. Sackett , Heather L. Morrison , Paul Harding , Todd A. Boroson

In a series of two papers we present results of a new H-alpha imaging survey, aiming at the detection of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of late-type spiral galaxies. We have investigated a sample of 74 nearby edge-on spirals,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joern Rossa , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar

The effects of dust opacity on the radiation of nearby and distant galaxies are reviewed. The geometrical distribution of the dust inside the galaxy plays a fundamental role in determining the wavelength dependence of the obscuration and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniela Calzetti

The existence of stellar halos around galaxies is a natural prediction of the hierarchical nature of the LambdaCDM model. Recent observations of Milky Way-like galaxies have revealed a wide range in stellar halo mass, including cases with…

We used the Revised Flat Galaxy Catalog (RFGC) to select 817 ultra-flat (UF) edge-on disk galaxies with blue and red apparent axial ratios of $(a/b)_B > 10.0$ and $(a/b)_R > 8.5$. The sample covering the whole sky, except the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva , Yu. N. Kudrya

We used ultraviolet (200 nm) images of the local spiral galaxies M33, M51, M81, M100, M101 to compute morphological parameters of galactic disks at this wavelength : half-light radius $r_{hl}$, surface brightness distributions, asymmetries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Denis Burgarella , Veronique Buat , Jose Donas , Bruno Milliard , Sandra Chapelon

We use data from the GAMA and GALEX surveys to demonstrate that the UV upturn, an unexpected excess of ultraviolet flux from a hot stellar component, seen in the spectra of many early-type galaxies, arises from processes internal to…

The outer regions of galactic disks have received increased attention since ultraviolet observations with GALEX demonstrated that nearly 30% of galaxies have UV emission beyond their optical extents, indicating star formation activity.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Stephanie J. Bush , T. J. Cox , Christopher C. Hayward , David Thilker , Lars Hernquist , Gurtina Besla

The acquisition of deep Near-IR imaging with Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope has provided the opportunity to study the very-high redshift Universe. For galaxies up to $z\approx 7.7$ sufficient wavelength coverage exists to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stephen M. Wilkins , Andrew J. Bunker , Elizabeth Stanway , Silvio Lorenzoni , Joseph Caruana