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We use deep HI observations obtained as part of the extended GALEX Arecibo SDSS survey (xGASS) to study the cold gas properties of central galaxies across environments. We find that, below stellar masses of 10^10.2 Msun, central galaxies in…

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We analyze line-of-sight atomic hydrogen (HI) line profiles of 31 nearby, low-mass galaxies selected from the Very Large Array - ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (VLA-ANGST) and The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS) to trace regions…

Galactic spiral shocks are dominant morphological features and believed to be responsible for substructure formation within spiral arms in disk galaxies. They can also contribute a substantial amount of kinetic energy to the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We characterize the column density probability distributions functions (PDFs) of the atomic hydrogen gas, HI, associated with seven Galactic molecular clouds (MCs). We use 21 cm observations from the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn Galactic HI Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Nia Imara , Blakesley Burkhart

Based on an axisymmetric galactic disk model, we estimate the equilibrium gas pressure P/k in the disk plane as a function of the galactocentric distance R for several galaxies (MW, M33, M51, M81, M100, M101, M106, and the SMC). For this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 A. V. Kasparova , A. V. Zasov

We derive the atomic hydrogen content for a total of 1900 spirals in the fields of eighteen nearby clusters. By comparing the HI deficiency distributions of the galaxies inside of and outside of one Abell radius of each cluster, we find…

New 21cm observations with the Green Bank Telescope show that a significant fraction of the HI in the inner Galaxy's halo 1 kpc from the midplane exists in the form of discrete clouds. Some look very much like a Spitzer ``standard'' diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix J. Lockman

We use spectroscopic data from HST and FUSE to study the wide range of ionization states of the "highly ionized high-velocity clouds". Studied extensively in OVI absorption, these clouds are usually assumed to be infalling gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

The Milky Way disc presents a warp, a flare, lopsidedness and other deviations from a purely axisymmetrical double exponential density component, both for the stellar and the gas component. Moreover, recent large-scale extended kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Combined Poisson's-Boltzman equations of hydrostatic equilibrium were set up and solved numerically for different baryonic components to obtain the molecular scale height as defined by the Half Width at Half Maxima (HWHM) in the spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-09 Narendra Nath Patra

High velocity gas that does not conform to Galactic rotation is observed throughout the Galaxy's halo. One component of this gas, HI high velocity clouds (HVCs), have attracted attention since their discovery in the 1960s and remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-24 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

The distributions of normal matter and of dark matter in the Galaxy are coupled to each other as they both move in the common gravitational potential. In order to fully exploit this interplay and to derive the various properties of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-16 Benjamin Burch , Ramanath Cowsik

We use radio-wave scattering data to constrain the distribution of ionized gas in the outer Galaxy. Like previous models, our model for the H II disk includes parameters for the radial scale length and scale height of the H II, but we allow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Joseph W. Lazio , James M. Cordes

Atomic Hydrogen (HI) is a useful tracer of gas in and around galaxies, and can be found in extended disk-like structures well beyond a system's optical extent. Here we investigate the properties of extended HI disks that emerge in six Milky…

We present deep HI 21-cm and optical observations of the face-on spiral galaxy M 83 obtained as part of a project to search for high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in nearby galaxies. Anomalous-velocity neutral gas is detected toward M 83, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Eric D. Miller , Joel N. Bregman , Bart P. Wakker

Current understanding of the secular evolution of galactic disks suggests that this process is dominated by two or more heating mechanisms, which increase the random motions of stars in the disk. In particular, the gravitational influence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristen L. Shapiro , Joris Gerssen , Roeland P. van der Marel

We present a comprehensive analysis of atomic hydrogen (HI) properties using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and N-body simulations covering a large cosmological volume at high resolution. We examine the HI mass function and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Marta Spinelli , Anna Zoldan , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Matteo Viel

The atomic hydrogen gas (HI) disk in the outer region (beyond ~10 kpc from the centre) of Milky Way can provide valuable information about the structure of the dark matter halo. The recent 3-D thickness map of the outer HI disk from the all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Kanak Saha , Evan S. Levine , Chanda J. Jog , Leo Blitz

The High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed in the Galactic neighbourhood, have been proposed to be remnants of the formation of the galaxies in the Local Group, having distances, and thus masses, predominantly of dark matter, considerably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. E. Beckman , E. Casuso