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We employ three-band Spitzer-MIPS observations to search for cold dust emission in three neutral hydrogen compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) in the vicinity of the Milky Way. Far-infrared emission correlated with HI column density was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-06 Rik J. Williams , Smita Mathur , Shawn Poindexter , Martin Elvis , Fabrizio Nicastro

Hypervelocity stars (HVS) move so fast that they are unbound to the Galaxy. When they were first discovered in 2005, dynamical ejection from the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic Centre (GC) was suggested as their origin. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 E. Ziegerer , M. Volkert , U. Heber , A. Irrgang , B. T. Gaensicke , S. Geier

The central region of the Milky Way provides a unique laboratory for a systematic, spatially-resolved population study of evolved massive stars of various types in a relatively high metallicity environment. We have conducted a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Dong , Q. D. Wang , M. R. Morris

We use deep images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope of the disk galaxy NGC 891, to search for globular cluster candidates. This galaxy has long been considered to be a close analog in size and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. E. Harris , M. Mouhcine , M. Rejkuba , R. Ibata

Utilizing astrometric parameters sourced from \textit{Gaia} Data Release 3 and radial velocities obtained from various spectroscopic surveys, we identify 519 high-velocity stars (HiVels) with a total velocity in the Galactocentric restframe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-05 Jiwei Liao , Cuihua Du , Mingji Deng , Dashuang Ye , Hefan Li , Yang Huang , Jianrong Shi , Jun Ma

The Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located in the inner regions of the Milky Way suffer from high extinction that makes their observation challenging. The VVV survey provides a way to explore these GGCs in the near-infrared where…

We present new observational results on high-velocity clouds (HVCs) based on an analysis of the Leiden/Dwingeloo HI survey. We cataloged all HVCs with NHI > 1 10^19 cm^-2 and found 252 clouds that form a representative flux limited sample.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bruens , J. Kerp , P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Mebold

Motivated by the idea that a subset of HVCs trace dark matter substructure in the Local Group, we search for signs of star formation in the Smith Cloud, a nearby ~2x10^6 Msun HVC currently falling into the Milky Way. Using GALEX NUV and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David V. Stark , Ashley D. Baker , Sheila J. Kannappan

We present a selection of candidates of clusters and protoclusters of galaxies identified in the photometric data of the HSC-SSP Wide Public Data Release 3 (PDR3), spanning the redshift range $\rm 0.1 \leq z \leq 2$. The selection method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Marcelo C. Vicentin , Laerte Sodré , Michael A. Strauss , Erik V. R. de Lima , Pablo Araya-Araya

The results of the stellar photometry of the images ACS/WFC and WFPC2 of the HST are used to study stellar population and spatial distribution of stars in three edge-on galaxies: NGC 891, NGC 4144 and NGC 4244. The measuring of the number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Tikhonov , O. A. Galazutdinova

We report the first search for new star clusters performed using the VISTA near-infrared YJKs Magellanic Clouds survey (VMC) data sets. We chose a pilot field of ~ 0.4 deg^2 located in the South-West of the Small Magelllanic Cloud (SMC)…

AIMS: In their 1st extension to the Milky Way Star Clusters (MWSC) survey, Schmeja et al. applied photometric filters to the 2MASS to find new cluster candidates that were subsequently confirmed or rejected by the MWSC pipeline. To further…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 R. -D. Scholz , N. V. Kharchenko , A. E. Piskunov , S. Röser , E. Schilbach

Hyper-velocity stars are believed to be ejected out from the Galactic center through dynamical interactions between (binary) stars and the central massive black hole(s). In this paper, we report 19 low mass F/G/K type hyper-velocity star…

Following a dynamical encounter with Sgr A*, binaries in the Galactic Centre (GC) can be tidally separated and one member star ejected as a hyper-velocity star (HVS) with a velocity beyond the escape speed of the Milky Way. As GC-born…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 F. A. Evans , T. Marchetti , E. M. Rossi

We present the results based on the 2.5 arcsec-resolution observations using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G-0.02-0.07, or the 50 km/s Molecular Cloud (50MC), in the SO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Ryosuke Miyawaki , Masato Tsuboi , Kenta Uehara , Atsushi Miyazaki

This study developed an automated identification procedure for compact clouds with broad velocity widths in the spectral line data cubes of highly crowded regions. The procedure was applied to the CO J=3-2 line data, obtained using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Tomoharu Oka , Asaka Uruno , Rei Enokiya , Taichi Nakamura , Yuto Yamasaki , Yuto Watanabe , Sekito Tokuyama , Yuhei Iwata

The mass assembly history of the Milky Way can inform both theory of galaxy formation and the underlying cosmological model. Thus, observational constraints on the properties of both its baryonic and dark matter contents are sought. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-24 Elena M. Rossi , T. Marchetti , M. Cacciato , M. Kuiack , R. Sari

We have examined the resolved stellar populations at large galactocentric distances along the minor axis (from 10 kpc up to between 40 and 75 kpc), with limited major axis coverage, of six nearby highly-inclined Milky Way-mass disc galaxies…

Clear identifications of Galactic young stellar clusters farther than a few kpc from the Sun are rare, despite the large number of candidate clusters. We aim to improve the selection of candidate clusters rich in massive stars with a…

We have identified a class of high-velocity clouds which are compact and apparently isolated. The clouds are compact in that they have angular sizes less than 2 degrees FWHM. They are isolated in that they are separated from neighboring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Braun , W. B. Burton