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We present 3D hydrodynamical simulations of ram pressure stripping of a disc galaxy orbiting in a galaxy cluster. In this paper, we focus on the properties of the galaxies' tails of stripped gas. The galactic wakes show a flaring width,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Roediger , M. Brueggen

We report the discovery of a 20-kpc-sized H{\alpha} emission in SDSS J083803.68+540642.0, a ringed dwarf galaxy (M$_V$ = -17.89 mag) hosting an accreting intermediate-mass black hole at z=0.02957. Analysis of the HST images indicates that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Wen-Juan Liu , Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Ning Jiang , Paulina Lira , Zheng Cai , Feige Wang , Jinyi Yang , Ting Xiao , Minjin Kim

While major mergers and their tidal debris are well studied, they are less common than minor mergers (mass ratios < 0.3). The peculiar spiral NGC 2782 is the result of a merger between two disk galaxies with a mass ratio of ~4:1 occurring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-11 Karen Knierman , Patricia Knezek , Paul Scowen , Rolf Jansen , Elizabeth Wehner

A unique short-period Mercury-size Kepler exoplanet candidate KIC012557548b has been discovered recently by Rappaport et al. (2012). This object is a transiting disintegrating exoplanet with a circum-planetary material - comet-like tail.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Z. Garai , G. Zhou , J. Budaj , R. F. Stellingwerf

As globular clusters (GCs) orbit the Milky Way, their stars are tidally stripped forming tidal tails that follow the orbit of the clusters around the Galaxy. The morphology of these tails is complex and shows correlations with the phase of…

Context: Tidal tails of open clusters are the result of stellar evaporation from the cluster through the Galactic potential and internal dynamics. With the recent availability of high-precision data, tidal tails are being detected for most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Dhanraj Risbud , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa

We present the results of a VLA HI imaging survey aimed at understanding why some galaxies develop long extraplanar H$\alpha$ tails, becoming extreme jellyfish galaxies. The observations are centered on five extreme jellyfish galaxies,…

Elongated, bar-like galaxies without a significant disk component, with little rotation support and no gas, often form as a result of tidal interactions with a galaxy cluster, as was recently demonstrated using the IllustrisTNG-100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Ewa L. Lokas

I report on the discovery of two faint (~ 26.8 Rmag/arcsec^2) tidal tails around the shell elliptical NGC 3656 (Arp 155). This galaxy had previously been interpreted as a case of accretion, or minor merger. The two tidal tails are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc Balcells

We report Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) , Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Spitzer Space Telescope observations of ESO 184$-$G82, the host galaxy of GRB 980425/SN 1998bw, that yield evidence of a companion dwarf galaxy at a projected…

We report the detection of a pair of degree-long tidal tails associated with the globular cluster Palomar 14, using images obtained at the CFHT. We reveal a power-law departure from a King profile at large distances to the cluster center.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Sollima , D. Martinez-Delgado , D. Valls-Gabaud , J. Penarrubia

We use the data of modern digital sky surveys (PanSTARRS-1, SDSS) combined with HI-line and far ultraviolet (GALEX) surveys to reclassify 165 early-type galaxies from the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies (KIG). As a result, the number of E- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 V. E. Karachentseva , I. D. Karachentsev , O. V. Melnyk

We present a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength HST/WFC3 imaging and Keck/OSIRIS near-IR AO-assisted integral field spectroscopy for a highly magnified lensed galaxy at z=1.70. This young starburst is representative of UV-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Eva Wuyts , Jane R. Rigby , Michael D. Gladders , Keren Sharon

MUSE observations of the cluster of galaxies CGr32 ($M_{200}$ $\simeq$ 2 $\times$ 10$^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$) at $z$ = 0.73 reveal the presence of two massive star forming galaxies with extended tails of diffuse gas detected in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Boselli , Epinat , Contini , Abril-Melgarejo , Boogaard , Pointecouteau , Ventou , Brinchmann , Carton , Finley , Michel-Dansac , Soucail , Weilbacher

{We present, for the first time, photometric and kinematical evidence, obtained with FORS2 on the VLT, for the existence of kinematically decoupled cores (KDCs) in two dwarf elliptical galaxies; FS76 in the NGC5044 group and FS373 in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. De Rijcke , H. Dejonghe , W. W. Zeilinger , G. K. T. Hau

We present results from a mosaic of nine Chandra observations of M86 and the surrounding field. We detect three main diffuse components: the Virgo ICM at ~2.4 keV, the extended halo of M86 at ~1.2 keV, and the cooler central and stripped…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Randall , P. Nulsen , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , M. Machacek , S. S. Murray , B. Maughan

A significant part of the Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies orbit within a Vast POlar Structure (VPOS), which is perpendicular to the Galactic disc and whose origin has not yet been identified. It includes the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Istiak Akib , François Hammer , Yanbin Yang , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Jianling Wang

We report the discovery of two well-defined tidal tails emerging from the Hyades star cluster. The tails were detected in Gaia DR2 data by selecting cluster members in the three-dimensional galactocentric cylindrical velocity space. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Stefan Meingast , João Alves

Tidal ring galaxies are observed rarely in the local universe due to their intrinsically transient nature. The tidal ring structures are the result of strong interactions between gas-rich stellar disks and smaller galactic systems and do…

We report the discovery of tidal tails around the Galactic globular cluster NGC 7492, based on the Data Release 1 of the Pan-STARRS 1 survey. The tails were detected with a version of the matched filter technique applied to the $(g-r,r)$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Camila Navarrete , Vasily Belokurov , Sergey E. Koposov