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Using H I absorption spectra taken from the recent surveys of 21-cm line and continuum emission in the Galactic plane, the distribution of cool atomic clouds in the outer disk of the Milky Way is revealed. The warp of the midplane is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-21 John M. Dickey

An accurate knowledge of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way is of crucial importance for galaxy formation studies and current searches for particle dark matter. In this paper we set new dynamical constraints on the Galactic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-03 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone

We present a three dimensional model for the Milky Way fit to the far-infrared (FIR) and near-infrared (NIR) data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument for Galactic latitudes |b| < 30 degrees and to within 20 degrees of the Galactic center.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 R. Drimmel , D. N. Spergel

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is known to contain multiphase gas in various stages of evolution and interaction with the galaxy. In order to characterize its detailed behavior on short timescales, we use a subregion of the TNG100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Daniel DeFelippis , Shy Genel , Greg L. Bryan

There is mounting evidence for an extra-planar gas layer around the Milky Way disk, similar to the anomalous HI gas detected in a few other galaxies. As much as 10% of the gas may be in this phase. We analyze HI clouds located in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Dedes , P. W. M Kalberla

We present the discovery of a 4 kpc molecular gas lane in the Cygnus A host galaxy, using ALMA CO 2-1 observations. The gas lane is oriented roughly perpendicular to the projected radio jet axis. The CO emission generally follows the clumpy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 C. L. Carilli , R. A. Perley , D. A. Perley , V. Dhawan , R. Decarli , A. Evans , K. Nyland

The variation of the kinematical properties of the Galactic thick disk with Galactic height Z are studied by means of 412 red giants observed in the direction of the south Galactic pole up to 4.5 kpc from the plane. We confirm the non-null…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Moni Bidin , G. Carraro , R. A. Mendez

We present full modeling of tangent point emission of HI as seen in the 21 cm transition in the inner Galaxy ($R \simeq 3-8 \kpc$). The model used takes into account emission from a large path length along the line of sight, corresponding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Sangeeta Malhotra

We investigate the galactic disk distribution of a sample of planetary nebulae characterised in terms of their mid-infrared spectral features. The total number of galactic disk PNe with 8-13mum spectra is brought up to 74 with the inclusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Casassus , P. F. Roche , D. K. Aitken , C. H. Smith

We present a study of the gas kinematics within the Hestia project, a state-of-the-art set of simulations of the Local Group, with a particular focus on the velocity patterns of different ions and the large-scale motion of gas and galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 L. Biaus , S. E. Nuza , C. Scannapieco , P. Richter , M. Damle , N. I. Libeskind , M. Vogelsberger

We present an analytic model for the cool, $T \approx 10^4$ K, circumgalactic medium (CGM), describing the gas distribution, thermal and ionization state. Our model assumes (total) pressure equilibrium with the ambient warm/hot CGM,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-03 Yakov Faerman , Jessica K. Werk

We present dynamical measurements from the KMOS (K-band Multi-Object Spectrograph) Deep Survey (KDS), which is comprised of 77 typical star-forming galaxies at z $\simeq$ 3.5 in the mass range 9.0 < log(M$_{\star}$/M$_{\odot}$) < 10.5.…

Understanding the processes that drive the morphology and kinematics of molecular gas in galaxies is crucial for comprehending star formation and, ultimately, galaxy evolution. Using data obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…

We present a comprehensive study of the velocity dispersion of the atomic (HI) and molecular (H2) gas components in the disks (R < R25) of a sample of 12 nearby spiral galaxies with moderate inclinations. Our analysis is based on sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Anahi Caldu-Primo , Andreas Schruba , Fabian Walter , Adam Leroy , Karin Sandstrom , W. J. G. de Blok , Roger Ianjamasimanana , K. M. Mogotsi

We present a reconstruction of the line-of-sight motions of the local interstellar medium (ISM) based on the combination of a model of the three-dimensional dust density distribution within 1.25 kpc from the Sun and the HI and CO line…

We have explored the galaxy disk/extended halo gas kinematic relationship using rotation curves (Keck/ESI) of ten intermediate redshift galaxies which were selected by MgII halo gas absorption observed in quasar spectra. Previous results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 G. G. Kacprzak , C. W. Churchill , C. C. Steidel , D. Ceverino , A. A. Klypin , M. T. Murphy

We have developed a method for deriving the distribution of the Milky Way's interstellar medium as a function of longitude, latitude, distance and line-of-sight velocity. This method takes as input maps of reddening as a function of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Kirill Tchernyshyov , J. E. G. Peek

We assess the possibility to detect the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) in emission and to characterize its physical conditions and spatial distribution through spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, in the framework of the recently…

We consider the relationship between the total HI mass in late-type galaxies and the kinematic properties of their disks. The mass $M_HI$ for galaxies with a wide variety of properties, from dwarf dIrr galaxies with active star formation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zasov , A. A. Smirnova