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Long arcs in clusters of galaxies, produced by gravitational lensing, can be used to estimate the mass interior to the arcs and therefore, constrain the cluster mass distribution. The radial density distribution of the intracluster gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jordi Miralda-Escude , Arif Babul

Recent observational results on the globular cluster systems of spiral galaxies are summarized. Although the number of spirals with well-studied GCSs is still small, new studies promise to increase it rapidly in the next few years. New…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pauline Barmby

We present moderate-resolution spectroscopy of globular clusters (GCs) around the Sa/Sb spiral galaxy M81 (NGC 3031). Sixteen candidate clusters were observed with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. All are…

Young star clusters with masses similar to those of classical old globular clusters are observed not only in starbursts, mergers or otherwise disturbed galaxies, but also in normal spiral galaxies. Some young clusters with masses as high as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Larsen

Without a source of new gas, our Galaxy would exhaust its supply of gas through the formation of stars. Ionized gas clouds observed at high velocity may be a reservoir of such gas, but their distances are key for placing them in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Nicolas Lehner , J. Christopher Howk

We present direct measures of the ionization fractions of several sulfur ions in the Galactic warm ionized medium (WIM). We obtained high resolution ultraviolet absorption line spectroscopy of post-asymptotic giant branch stars in the the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Christopher Howk , S. Michelle Consiglio

Terzan 5 is the only Galactic globular cluster that has plausibly been detected in the very-high-energy range. Stacking upper limits by H.E.S.S. on the integral $\gamma$-ray flux of a population of other globular clusters are very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Hambeleleni Ndiyavala-Davids , Christo Venter , Andreas Kopp , Michael Backes

Francis & Hewett (1993) identified two 10-Mpc scale regions of the high redshift universe that were seemingly very overdense in neutral hydrogen. Subsequent observations showed that at least one of these gas-rich regions enveloped a cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul J. Francis , Greg M. Wilson , Bruce E. Woodgate

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

We have identified a few thousand star clusters in the nearby, late-type spiral galaxy M101, including approximately 90 candidate ancient globular clusters (GCs), from multi-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. We obtained follow-up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-07 Lesley Simanton , Rupali Chandar , Bryan Miller

We reveal the importance of ongoing in-situ star formation in the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in the massive cool-core CLASH cluster MACS 1931.8-2635 at z=0.35. Using a multi-wavelength approach, we assess the stellar and warm ionized medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 B. I. Ciocan , B. L. Ziegler , M. Verdugo , P. Papaderos , K. Fogarty , M. Donahue , M. Postman

We describe a maximum-likelihood method for determining the mass distribution in spherical stellar systems from the radial velocities of a population of discrete test particles. The method assumes a parametric form for the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaoan Wu , Scott Tremaine

We present a first complete 12 CO J=3-2 map of M81, observed as part of the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey being carried out at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We detect 9 regions of significant CO emission located at different positions…

If massive black holes constitute the dark matter in the halo surrounding the Milky Way, the existence of low mass globular clusters in the halo suggests an upper limit to their mass, $M_{_{BH}}$. We use a combination of the impulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ben Moore

We report the discovery of a 10^4 kpc^2 gaseous structure detected in [OII] in an over-dense region of the COSMOS-Gr30 galaxy group at z~0.725 thanks to deep MUSE Guaranteed Time Observations. We estimate the total amount of diffuse ionised…

Globular clusters host complex stellar populations whose chemical signatures suggest early (3 Myr - 1 Gyr) retention and reprocessing of stellar ejecta, yet direct evidence for intracluster gas is lacking. Here we present a unified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Alexey Bobrick , Melvyn B. Davies , Hagai B. Perets

We report the detection of ionized intracluster gas in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Pulsars in this cluster with a negative period derivative, which must lie in the distant half of the cluster, have significantly higher measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 P. C. Freire , M. Kramer , A. G. Lyne , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester , N. D'Amico

Many observed globular clusters (GCs) seem to show a central overabundance of mass whose nature has not yet fully understood. Indeed, it is not clear whether it is due to a central intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) or to a massive stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-23 Manuel Arca-Sedda

We investigate the presence of ionised gas outflows in a sample of 141 main-sequence star-forming galaxies at $1.2<z<2.6$ from the KLEVER (KMOS Lensed Emission Lines and VElocity Review) survey. Our sample covers an exceptionally wide range…

We present the results of a search for molecular gas emission from a star-forming galaxy at z = 4.9. The galaxy benefits from magnification of 22 +/- 5x due to strong gravitational lensing by the foreground cluster MS1358+62. We target the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. C. Livermore , A. M. Swinbank , I. Smail , R. G. Bower , K. E. K. Coppin , R. A. Crain , A. C. Edge , J. E. Geach , J. Richard