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We present deep optical long-slit spectra of 17 edge-on spiral galaxies of intermediate to late morphological type, mostly parallel to their major axes and in a few cases parallel to the minor axes.The line-of-sight stellar kinematics are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit , K. C. Freeman

We present 3D kinematic observations of stars within the central 0.5 pc of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster using adaptive optics imaging and spectroscopy from the Keck telescopes. Recent observations have shown that the cluster has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Do , G. D. Martinez , S. Yelda , A. M. Ghez , J. Bullock , M. Kaplinghat , J. R. Lu , A. G. H. Peter , K. Phifer

The new observational data concerning distribution, excitation, and kinematics of the ionized gas in the giant early-type disk galaxy NGC 2655 obtained at the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS) and at the 2.5m…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Olga K. Sil'chenko , Alexei V. Moiseev , Alexandre S. Gusev , Daria V. Kozlova

We present the discovery of an inhomogenous, low-surface brightness, extended disk-like structure around the Andromeda galaxy (M31) based on a large kinematic survey of more than 2800 stars with the Keck/DEIMOS spectrograph. The stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Ibata , S. Chapman , A. M. N. Ferguson , G. Lewis , M. Irwin , N. Tanvir

We present the stellar kinematics across the Galactic bulge and into the disk at positive longitudes from the SDSS-III APOGEE spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. APOGEE includes extensive coverage of the stellar populations of the bulge…

Encounters between galaxies modify their morphology, kinematics, and star formation (SF) history. The relation between these changes and external perturbations is not straightforward. The great number of parameters involved requires both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 I. Fuentes-Carrera , M. Rosado , P. Amram , E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , J. A. Gomez-Lopez , H. O. Castaneda , A. Bernal , C. Balkowski

We present a study of the mass distributions in the bright E0 galaxy NGC 1407 and its associated group by analyzing the high quality Chandra and ROSAT X-ray spectroscopic data. In order to probe the stellar mass distribution we calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhongli Zhang , Haiguang Xu , Yu Wang , Tao An , Yueheng Xu , Xiang-Ping Wu

We present a follow-up analysis examining the dynamics and structures of 41 massive, large star-forming galaxies at z~0.67-2.45 using both ionized and molecular gas kinematics. We fit the galaxy dynamics with models consisting of a bulge, a…

We report results of proper motions of 25 known Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters (ages ~ 1 - 10 Gyr old) derived from Gaia EDR3 data sets. When these mean proper motions are gathered with existent radial velocity measurements to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Andrés E. Piatti

We have mapped the starless core TMC-1C in a variety of molecular lines with the IRAM 30m telescope. High density tracers show clear signs of self-absorption and sub-sonic infall asymmetries are present in N2H+ (1-0) and DCO+ (2-1) lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Schnee , P. Caselli , A. Goodman , H. G. Arce , J. Ballesteros-Paredes , K. Kuchibhotla

We present a detailed study of the stellar kinematics in the barred galaxy NGC 5728 based on I-band photometry and long-slit spectroscopic observations in the region of the near-IR Ca II triplet. The analysis of the stellar line-of-sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Prada , C. M. Gutierrez

While most galaxies live in group environments where they undergo an accelerated evolution, the characteristics of their circumgalactic medium (CGM) remain uncertain. We present an analysis of the CGM of two galaxy groups in different…

We examine the structure and dynamics of the galaxies in the Coma cluster using a catalog of 552 redshifts including 243 new measurements. The velocity distribution is shown to be non-Gaussian due to structure associated with the group of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Colless , Andrew M. Dunn

We investigate the kinematics of the molecular gas in a sample of seven edge-on (i>60{\deg}) galaxies identified as hosting large-scale outflows of ionised gas, using ALMA CO(1-0) observations at ~ 1kpc resolution. We build on Hogarth et…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Lucy M. Hogarth , Amelie Saintonge , Tim A. Davis

Using The Hubble Space Telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph HST's STIS, observations of the OIII emission from the narrow-line region (NLR) of NGC 4151 were obtained and radial velocities determined. Five orbits of HST time were…

We present interferometric observations of CO lines (12CO(1-0, 2-1) and 13CO(1-0, 2-1)) and dense gas tracers (HCN(1-0), HCO+(1-0), HNC(1-0) and HNCO(4-3)) in two nearby edge-on barred lenticular galaxies, NGC 4710 and NGC 5866, with most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Selcuk Topal , Martin Bureau , Timothy A. Davis , Melanie Krips , Lisa M. Young , Alison F. Crocker

We present detailed numerical simulations of NGC 1433, an intermediate-type barred spiral showing strong morphological features including a secondary bar, nuclear ring, inner ring, outer pseudoring, and two striking, detached spiral arcs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Treuthardt , H. Salo , P. Rautiainen , R. Buta

To probe the initial conditions for high-mass star and cluster formation, we investigate the properties of dense filaments within the infrared dark cloud G035.39-00.33 (IRDC G035.39) in a combined Very Large Array (VLA) and the Green Bank…

We present the discovery of a peculiar central stellar structure in the collisional ring galaxy AM0644-741 using HST imaging and MUSE integral field unit (IFU) data. We identified two S\'ersic components with a S\'ersic index of 1.72 (inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Chayan Mondal , Sudhanshu Barway

Kinematical decoupling between two components of a galaxy suggests the occurrence of a second event. In disk galaxies it is usually observed as a counterrotation of the stellar disk with respect to the gaseous component and/or with respect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bertola , E. M. Corsini
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