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We present the first integral-field spectroscopic observations of high-redshift submillimeter-selected galaxies (SMGs) using Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS-AO). We target H-alpha emission of three SMGs at redshifts z~1.4-2.4 with the…

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I explore the hypothesis that Ly$\alpha$ absorption at low redshift is caused by the outer regions of extended galaxy disks, including those of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies. McGaugh (1996) has shown that the distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Suzanne M. Linder

We present WFC3 observations of three low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies from the Schombert et. al LSB catalog that are within 11 Mpc of the Milky Way. Deep imaging at F336W, F555W and F814W allow the construction of the V-I…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 J. Schombert , S. McGaugh

[Abridged] We present deep optical and near-infrared UBVRIHKs imaging data for 24 blue compact galaxies (BCGs). The sample contains luminous dwarf and intermediate-mass BCGs which are predominantly metal-poor, although a few have near-solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Genoveva Micheva , Göran Östlin , Nils Bergvall , Erik Zackrisson , Josefa Masegosa , Isabel Marquez , Thomas Marquart , Florence Durret

We compare star formation in the inner and outer disks of 11 dwarf Irregular galaxies (dIm) within 3.6 Mpc. The regions are identified on GALEX near-UV images, and modeled with UV, optical, and near-IR colors to determine masses and ages. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nicholas W. Melena , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter , Lea Zernow

The Little Red Dots (LRDs) are high-redshift galaxies uncovered by JWST, characterized by small effective radii ($R_{\rm eff} \sim 80-300$ pc), number densities that are intermediate between those of typical galaxies and quasars, and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Fabio Pacucci , Abraham Loeb

The widely varying dwarf galaxy counts in different environments provide a strong challenge to standard hierarchical clustering models. The luminosity function is not universal, but seems to be strongly dependent upon environment. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Sabatini , J. Davies , R. Scaramella , R. Smith , M. Baes , S. M. Linder , S. Roberts , V. Testa

We present long slit optical spectroscopy of 67 HII regions in 21 dwarf irregular galaxies to investigate the enrichment of oxygen, nitrogen, neon, sulfur, and argon in low mass galaxies. Oxygen abundances are obtained via direct detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. van Zee , M. P. Haynes

Although low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) contribute a large fraction to the number density of galaxies, their properties are still poorly known. LSBs are often considered dust poor, based only on a few studies. We use, for the first…

To investigate the effects the cluster environment has on Late-Type Galaxies (LTGs) we studied HI perturbation signatures for all Abell 1367 LTGs with HI detections. We used new VLA HI observations combined with AGES single dish blind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-24 T. C. Scott , E. Brinks , L. Cortese , A. Bosell , H. Bravo-Alfaro

In order to investigate the contribution of diffuse components to their total HI emission, we have obtained high precision HI line flux densities with the 100m Green Bank Telescope for a sample of 100 isolated spiral and irregular galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David E. Hogg , Morton S. Roberts , Martha P. Haynes , Ronald J. Maddalena

We report the measured H$\alpha$ fluxes and images of 66 nearby objects observed with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Three of these objects: IC2233, UGC4704, and NGC3432 are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 S. S. Kaisin , I. D Karachentsev

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

The origin of kpc-scale holes in the atomic hydrogen (H I) distributions of some nearby dwarf irregular galaxies presents an intriguing problem. Star formation histories (SFHs) derived from resolved stars give us the unique opportunity to…

We investigate the bursty star formation histories (SFHs) of dwarf galaxies using the distribution of log($L_{H\alpha}/L_{UV}$) of 185 local galaxies. We expand on the work of Weisz et al. 2012 to consider a wider range of SFHs and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Najmeh Emami , Brian Siana , Daniel R. Weisz , Benjamin D. Johnson , Xiangcheng Ma , Kareem El-Badry

As part of a continuing study of the effect of cluster environment on the star formation properties of galaxies, we have undertaken an H-alpha objective prism survey of the nearby cluster, Abell 1060. We detect 33 galaxies in emission, 24…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. M. Bennett , C. Moss

The search for chemically unevolved galaxies remains prevalent in the nearby Universe, mostly because these systems provide excellent proxies for exploring in detail the physics of high-z systems. The most promising candidates are extremely…

We have extended our H alpha objective prism survey of 8 low-redshift clusters (viz. Abell 262, 347, 400, 426, 569, 779, 1367 and 1656) to include a complete sample of early-type galaxies within 1.5 Abell radii of the cluster centres. Of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Moss , M. Whittle

About 30\% of disk galaxies show lopsidedness in their stellar disk. Although such a large-scale asymmetry in the disk can be primarily looked upon as a long-lived mode ($m=1$), the physical origin of the lopsidedness in the disk continues…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Biju Saha , Suman Sarkar , Arunima Banerjee

Irregular (Irr) galaxies are gas-rich objects with recent or ongoing star formation. In absence of spiral density waves, star formation occurs largely stochastically. The scattered star-forming regions tend to be long-lived and migrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K. Grebel