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Cold dark matter halos are expected to be triaxial and often tilted relative to the stellar disk. Stellar streams provide a sensitive tracer of the Milky Way's halo shape, though models for the Galactic potential are typically limited to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-11 Jacob Nibauer , Ana Bonaca

Deep photometric surveys of the Milky Way have revealed diffuse structures encircling our Galaxy far beyond the "classical" limits of the stellar disk. This paper reviews results from our own and other observational programs, which together…

We use spatially resolved spectroscopy from the Calar Alto Legacy Field Area (CALIFA) survey to study the nature of the line emitting gas in galaxies of different Hubble types, focusing on the separation of star-forming (SF) regions from…

Understanding the nature of spiral structure in disk galaxies is one of the main, and still unsolved questions in galactic astronomy. However, theoretical works are proposing new testable predictions whose detection is becoming feasible…

We recently developed an automated method, auto-GMM to decompose simulated galaxies. It extracts kinematic structures in an accurate, efficient, and unsupervised way. We use auto-GMM to study the stellar kinematic structures of disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Min Du , Luis C. Ho , Victor P. Debattista , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson , Dongyao Zhao , Lars Hernquist

The extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) represents ionized gases traced by optical/UV lines beyond the stellar extent of galaxies. We herein introduce a novel multi-slit narrow-band spectroscopy method to conduct spatially resolved…

We present a study of the HI distribution and dynamics of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC5055 based on observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The gaseous disk of NGC5055 extends out to about 40 kpc, equal to 3.5 R_25, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Battaglia , F. Fraternali , T. Oosterloo , R. Sancisi

The extraplanar diffuse ionised gas is a key component for understanding the feedback processes that connect galactic discs and their halos. In this paper, we present the second study of the BETIS project, which aims to explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-01 R. González-Díaz , F. F. Rosales-Ortega , L. Galbany

(Abridged). We present new high spatial resolution narrowband imaging observations of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) in four late-type, actively star forming edge-on spirals, obtained with ACS on-board HST. Our F658N (H-alpha)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-25 Joern Rossa , Michael Dahlem , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar , Roeland P. van der Marel

We have extended our previous observation (Lim et al. 2008) of NGC1275 covering a central radius of ~10kpc to the entire main body of cool molecular gas spanning ~14kpc east and west of center. We find no new features beyond the region…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 I-Ting Ho , Jeremy Lim , Dinh-V-Trung

We have studied the differences between the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) and the HII regions along a slit position in the local dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. The slit position passes through the two most prominent HII regions: Hubble V and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez , A. Peimbert

We compare dynamical mass estimates based on spatially extended stellar and ionized gas kinematics ($\mathrm{M_{dyn,*}}$ and $\mathrm{M_{dyn,eml}}$, respectively) of 157 star forming galaxies at $0.6\leq z<1$. Compared to $z\sim0$, these…

The halos of elliptical galaxies are faint and difficult to explore, but they contain vital clues to both structure and formation. We present the results of an imaging and spectroscopic survey for planetary nebulae (PNe) in the nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric W. Peng , Holland C. Ford , Kenneth C. Freeman

Much of our understanding of dark matter halos comes from the assumption that the mass-to-light ratio (M/L) of spiral disks is constant. The best way to test this hypothesis is to measure the disk surface mass density directly via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kimberly A. Herrmann , Robin Ciardullo

Among the most fundamental properties of a dark matter halo is its density profile. Motivated by the recent proposal by Garc\'ia et al. [R. Garc\'ia et. al., MNRAS 521, 2464 (2023)] to define a dynamical halo as the collection of orbiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Tristen Shields , Edgar M. Salazar , Eduardo Rozo , Aakanksha Adya , Calvin Osinga , Ze'ev Vladimir

A study is presented of HI line observations of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 3521 observed with the VLA as part of The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey. Clearly evident in the HI data cube is the presence of an anomalous HI component that is both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Edward Elson

We present ionized-gas (OIII) and stellar kinematics (velocities and velocity dispersions) for 30 nearly face-on spiral galaxies out to as much as three disk scale lengths (h_R). These data have been derived from PPak IFU spectroscopy…

We investigate the connection between the morphology and internal kinematics of the stellar component of central galaxies with mass $M_\star > {10}^{9.5} {\rm M}_\odot$ in the EAGLE simulations. We compare several kinematic diagnostics…

The new observational data concerning distribution, excitation, and kinematics of the ionized gas in the giant early-type disk galaxy NGC 2655 obtained at the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS) and at the 2.5m…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Olga K. Sil'chenko , Alexei V. Moiseev , Alexandre S. Gusev , Daria V. Kozlova

We have directly compared MgII halo gas kinematics to the rotation velocities derived from emission/absorption lines of the associated host galaxies. Our 0.096<z<0.148 volume-limited sample comprises 13 ~L* galaxies, with impact parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. G. Kacprzak , C. W. Churchill , E. J. Barton , J. Cooke