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(first paragraph) We have obtained Halpha and Palpha emission line images covering the central 3 - 4 arcmin of M51 using the WFPC2 and NICMOS cameras on HST to study the high-mass stellar population. The 0.1 - 0.2 arcsec pixels provide 4.6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Z. Scoville , M. Polletta , S. Ewald , S. R. Stolovy , R. Thompson , M. Rieke

We present new narrow-band H alpha imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope of two redshift 0.91 galaxies that have been lensed by foreground galaxy cluster Abell 2390. These data probe spatial scales as small as 0.3 kpc, providing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Alice Olmstead , Jane R. Rigby , Mark Swinbank , Sylvain Veilleux

We investigate the relation between the star formation rate surface density (Sigma_SFR) and the mass surface density of gas (Sigma_gas) in NGC 5194. VIRUS-P integral field spectroscopy is used to measure H-alpha, H-beta [NII]6548,6584, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Guillermo A. Blanc , Amanda Heiderman , Karl Gebhardt , Neal J. Evans , Joshua Adams

We have recently carried out the first wide-field hydrogen Paschen-alpha line imaging survey of the Galactic Center (GC), using the NICMOS instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The survey maps out a region of 2253 pc^2 around the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Q. D. Wang , H. Dong , A. Cotera , S. Stolovy , M. Morris , C. C. Lang , M. P. Muno , G. Schneider , D. Calzetti

The halo of NGC 891 has been the subject of studies for more than a decade. One of its most striking features is the large asymmetry in H$\alpha$ emission. In this letter, we will take a quantitative look at this asymmetry at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kamphuis , B. W. Holwerda , R. J. Allen , R. F. Peletier , P. C. van der Kruit

We used a data set from AKARI and Herschel images at wavelengths from 7 $\mu$m to 500 $\mu$m to catch the evidence of dust processing in galactic winds in NGC 1569. Images show a diffuse infrared (IR) emission extending from the galactic…

[abridged] Aims. The aim of the present paper is to provide new and more detailed relations at the kpc scale between the gas surface density and the face-on optical depth directly calibrated on galaxies, in order to compute the attenuation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Boquien , A. Boselli , V. Buat , M. Baes , G. Bendo , S. Boissier , L. Ciesla , A. Cooray , L. Cortese , S. Eales , J. Koda , V. Lebouteiller , I. de Looze , M. W. L. Smith , L. Spinoglio , C. D. Wilson

Our HST/NICMOS Pa survey of the Galactic center (GC) provides a uniform, panoramic, high-resolution map of stars and ionized diffuse gas in the central 416 arcmin^2 of the Galaxy. This survey was carried out with 144 HST orbits using two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Dong , Q. D. Wang , A. Cotera , S. Stolovy , M. R. Morris , J. Mauerhan , E. A. Mills , G. Schneider , D. Calzetti , C. Lang

We investigate the resolved relation between local extinction and star formation surface density within nearby star-forming galaxies selected from the MaNGA survey. Balmer decrement measurements imply an extinction of the H{\alpha} line…

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The stellar populations in a stellar complex in NGC 6946 are analyzed on images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The complex is peculiar by its very high density of stars and clusters and…

We present Ha maps at 1kpc spatial resolution for star-forming galaxies at z~1, made possible by the WFC3 grism on HST. Employing this capability over all five 3D-HST/CANDELS fields provides a sample of 2676 galaxies. By creating deep…

We present Monte Carlo simulations of the Diffuse H$\alpha$ Galactic Background. Our models comprise direct and multiply scattered H$\alpha$ radiation from the kpc scaleheight Warm Ionized Medium and midplane H II regions. The scattering is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenneth Wood , Ron Reynolds

We present HST/WFC3 narrowband imaging of the H-alpha emission in a sample of eight gravitationally-lensed galaxies at z = 1 - 1.5. The magnification caused by the foreground clusters enables us to obtain a median source plane spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. C. Livermore , T. Jones , J. Richard , R. G. Bower , R. S. Ellis , A. M. Swinbank , J. R. Rigby , Ian Smail , H. Ebeling , R. A. Crain

We have carried out a deep imaging survey for H$\alpha$ emitting galaxies at $z\approx$0.24 using a narrowband filter tuned with the redshifted line. The total sky area covered is 706 arcmin$^2$ within a redshift range from 0.234 to 0.252…

We analyze the statistical properties of the circumnuclear HII regions of a sample of 52 nearby galaxies ($v < 1000km/s) from archival HST/NICMOS H-band and Pa alpha (1.87micron) observations at unprecedented spatial resolutions of between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Almudena Alonso-Herrero , Johan H. Knapen

We combined the spectroscopic information from the 3D-HST survey with \textit{Herschel} data to characterize the H$\alpha$ dust attenuation properties of a sample of 79 main sequence star-forming galaxies at $z \sim 1$ in the GOODS-S field.…

In this letter we present the first systematic spectroscopic measurements of the Near-InfraRed (NIR) hydrogen recombination lines Paschen alpha ($Pa_{\alpha}$ $\lambda = 1.875 \mu m$) and Brackett beta ($Br_{\beta}$ $\lambda = 2.626 \mu…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Ciaràn Rogers , Guido de Marchi , Bernhard Brandl

We present deep narrowband observations with high spatial resolution of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in the halo of NGC891, obtained with the WFPC2 on-board the HST. Our H-alpha observations, centered on the northern part of NGC891,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joern Rossa , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar , Rene A. M. Walterbos , Colin A. Norman

Observations of ongoing HI accretion in nearby galaxies have only identified about 10% of the needed fuel to sustain star formation in these galaxies. Most of these observations have been conducted using interferometers and may have missed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 D. J. Pisano