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This paper reports preliminary yet compelling kinematical inferences for N ~ 600 carbon-rich dwarf stars that demonstrate around 30% to 60% are members of the Galactic halo. The study uses a spectroscopically and non-kinematically selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 J. Farihi , A. R. Arendt , H. S. Machado , L. J. Whitehouse

In order to better determine the large-scale 3D-structure of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies we present a Faraday rotation analysis of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5775. Deep radio-continuum observations in total power and linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Marian Soida , Marita Krause , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar , Marek Urbanik

Dark matter (DM) halos in $\Lambda$ Cold DM cosmological simulations are triaxial. Most exhibit figure rotation. We study 40 isolated halos with stellar disks from the TNG50 simulation suite across $\sim 4$~Gyr to understand whether and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-03 Saarthak Johri , Neil Ash , Monica Valluri

As part of a large study to map the distribution of star formation across galactic disks, we have obtained deep Halpha images of the nearby Sculptor Group spirals NGC 247 and NGC 7793. These images are of sufficiently high quality that they…

The diffuse ionized gas (DIG) is an important component of the interstellar medium that can provide insights into the different physical processes affecting the gas in galaxies. We utilise optical IFU observations of 71 gas-stripped and…

The thickness of the neutral hydrogen layer, coupled with the rotation curve, traces the outer dark matter potential. We estimate the amplitude of the flaring in spiral galaxies from a 3D model of the HI gas. Warps in particular are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -F. Becquaert , F. Combes

Ionized gas and stellar kinematics have been measured along the major axes of seventeen nearby spiral galaxies of intermediate to late morphological type. We discuss the properties of each sample galaxy distinguishing between those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , J. C. Vega-Beltran , F. Bertola

The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

We use 25 simulated galaxies from the NIHAO project to define and characterize a variety of kinematic stellar structures: thin and thick discs, large scale single discs, classical and pseudo bulges, spheroids, inner discs, and stellar…

We present the first kinematic study of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) in the nearby, face-on disk galaxy M83 using optical emission-line spectroscopy from the Robert Stobie Spectrograph on the Southern African Large Telescope. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Erin Boettcher , J. S. Gallagher , Ellen G. Zweibel

We report a dynamical determination of the separate contributions of disk and dark halo masses to the rotation curve of a spiral galaxy. We use fluid-dynamical models of gas flow in the barred galaxy NGC 4123 to constrain the dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Benjamin J. Weiner , J. A. Sellwood , T. B. Williams

Context: H\alpha images of star bursting irregular galaxies reveal a large amount of extended ionized gas structures, in some cases at kpc-distance away from any place of current star forming activity. A kinematic analysis of especially the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. van Eymeren , D. J. Bomans , K. Weis , R. -J. Dettmar

We present a comparison of the interstellar medium traced by [CII] (ALMA), and ionised halo gas traced by Lya (MUSE), in and around QSO host galaxies at z~6. To date, 18 QSOs at this redshift have been studied with both MUSE and…

Spiral galaxies are thin and susceptible to being disrupted vertically. The largest star clusters, and nuclear starbursts, generate enough energy from winds and supernovae to send disk material to the halo. % METHODS Observations of edge-on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-10 William T. Reach , Dario Fadda , Richard J. Rand , Gordon J. Stacey

In this third paper of a series, we study the kinematics of the ionised gas and stars, calculating the dynamical masses of the circumnuclear star-forming regions in the ring of of the face-on spiral NGC 7742. We have used high spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 S. Zamora , A. I. Díaz , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich , R. Amorín

NGC 4013 is a distinctly warped galaxy with evidence of disk-halo activity. Through deep HI observations and modeling we confirm that the HI disk is thin (central exponential scale height of with an upper limit of 4" or 280 pc), but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Laura K. Zschaechner , Richard J. Rand

(Abridged) We present H-alpha images of five edge-on galaxies: NGC 891, NGC 4631, NGC 4244, NGC 3003, and UGC 9242. We also analyze [SII] 6717+6731A and [OIII] 5007A images of NGC 4631. We analyze the ionized gas content, with particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles Hoopes , Rene Walterbos , Richard Rand

Spectroscopic measurements of emission line ratios and velocities are presented for ionized gas across the central plane of NGC 55, a late-type galaxy in the Sculptor group. The low metallicity in NGC 55 leads to relatively low line ratios…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Otte , R. -J. Dettmar

Abridged. Context. The metal content of dwarf galaxies and the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium both suggest that mass loss from galaxies is a significant factor for the chemical evolution history of galaxies, in particular of…

(abridged) Photometry and long-slit spectroscopy are presented for a sample of 6 galaxies with a low surface brightness stellar disc and a bulge. The stellar and ionised-gas kinematics were measured along the major and minor axis in half of…