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Star formation is underway in the W49N molecular cloud (MC) at a high level of efficiency, with almost twenty ultra-compact (UC) HII regions observed thus far, indicating a recent formation of massive stars. Previous works have suggested…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-19 Mendoza-Torres , J. E. , Juárez-Gama , M. , Rodríguez-Esnard , I. T

We have detected C91$\alpha$ (8.5891 GHz) emission toward 4 ultra-compact \HII regions (\UCHII s; W49G, J, L & C) in the W49 North massive star forming region with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 3\arcsec resolution. No carbon line emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Anish Roshi , C. G. De Pree , W. M. Goss , K. R. Anantharamaiah

Recent, high sensitivity, HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies show that their thin `cold' disks are surrounded by thick layers (halos) of neutral gas with anomalous kinematics. We present results for three galaxies viewed at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Fraternali , Tom Oosterloo , Rense Boomsma , Rob Swaters , Renzo Sancisi

The neutral hydrogen structure of high-velocity cloud A0 (at about -180 km/s) has been mapped with a 9.1 arcmin resolution. Gaussian decomposition of the profiles is used to separately map families of components defined by similarities in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Gerrit L. Verschuur

We investigate the physical state of HI absorbing gas at low redshift (z = 0.25) using a subset of cosmological, hydrodynamic simulations from the OWLS project, focusing in particular on broad (b_HI > 40 km/s) HI Lyman-Alpha absorbers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Thorsten Tepper-García , Philipp Richter , Joop Schaye , Craig M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Tom Theuns

We present 21-cm observations and models of the HI kinematics and distribution of NGC 4244, a nearby edge-on Scd galaxy observed as part of the Westerbork Hydrogen Accretion in LOcal GAlaxieS (HALOGAS) survey. Our models give insight into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-21 Laura K. Zschaechner , Richard J. Rand , George H. Heald , Gianfranco Gentile , Peter Kamphuis

W49A is one of the most luminous giant H II (GH II) regions in our Galaxy. This star forming complex contains numerous compact and ultra-compact (UC) H II regions, extending over an area of 15 pc. It emits about 10^{51} Lyman continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter S. Conti , Robert D. Blum

We performed deep optical observations of the area of the new supernova remnant G 69.4+1.2 in the emission lines of [O III], Halpha+[N II] and [S II]. The low ionization images reveal diffuse and filamentary emission in the central and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fotis Mavromatakis , Panayotis Boumis , Euthimios V. Paleologou

We present HI imaging of GBT 1355+5439 performed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. This is a dark HI object recently discovered close to the nearby galaxy M101. We find GBT 1355+5439 to be an HI cloud 5x3 arcmin in size. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 T. A. Oosterloo , G. H. Heald , W. J. G. de Blok

We report the results obtained from a multi-wavelength study of the HII region, G18.148$-$0.283, using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at 1350 MHz along with other archival data. In addition to the radio continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-28 Jyotirmoy Dey , Jagadheep D. Pandian , Dharam Vir Lal

We have detected over 400 HI clouds in the lower halo of the Galaxy within the pilot region of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), a region of the fourth quadrant that spans 18 degrees in longitude, 40 degrees in latitude and is centered on…

We use observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) 21-cm emission line to study the spatial distribution of the HI gas in a 80$\degree\times~$90$\degree$ region of the Galaxy halo. The HI column densities in the range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Ericson López , Jairo Armijos , Mario Llerena , Franklin Aldás

We report a new high-sensitivity HI mapping observation of the NGC 5055 galaxy group over an area of $1.^\circ5\times0.^\circ75$ with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Our observation reveals that the warped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-01 Xiao-Lan Liu , Ming Zhu , Jin-Long Xu , Peng Jiang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Nai-Ping Yu , Jun-Jie Wang , Yan-Bin Yang

W75N is a star-forming region containing various ultracompact HII regions and OH, water, and methanol maser emission. Our VLBA map shows that the OH masers are located in a thin disk rotating around an O-star which is the exciting star of…

[ABRIDGED] The distance to the relativistic jet source SS433 and the related supernova remnant W50 is re-examined using new observations of HI in absorption from the VLA, HI in emission from the GBT, and 12CO emission from the FCRAO. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Felix J. Lockman , Katherine M. Blundell , W. M. Goss

We present Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope HI images, Lovell Telescope multibeam HI wide-field mapping, Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper facility images, William Herschel Telescope longslit echelle CaII observations, and IRAS ISSA 60 and 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. V. Smoker , L. M. Haffner , F. P. Keenan , R. D. Davies , D. Pollacco

We present a study of the distribution and kinematics of the neutral gas in the low-inclination Scd galaxy NGC 6946. The galaxy has been observed for 192 hours at 21-cm with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. These are among the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Boomsma , T. A. Oosterloo , F. Fraternali , J. M. van der Hulst , R. Sancisi

W51A is one of the most active star-forming region in our Galaxy, which contains giant molecular clouds with a total mass of 10^6 Msun. The molecular clouds have multiple velocity components over ~20 km/s, and interactions between these…

Spatial and kinematical correlations between HI and CO (2-1) emission of the southern spiral galaxy NGC4945 are studied with a common angular (23 arcsec) and velocity resolution (7 km/s). The 21cm continuum emission is also observed. The HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ott , J. B. Whiteoak , C. Henkel , R. Wielebinski

The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope finds a weak 21cm line emission feature at the coordinates (RA-Dec-velocity) of the sub-Damped Lyman-alpha absorber observed at z_abs=0.00632 in the spectrum of PG1216+069. The emission feature,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. H. Briggs , D. G. Barnes