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The dense clusters within the Serpens Molecular Cloud are among the most active regions of nearby star formation. In this paper, we use Gaia DR2 parallaxes and proper motions to statistically measure 1167 kinematic members of Serpens, few…

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the brightest cluster galaxy Hydra-A, a nearby ($z=0.054$) giant elliptical galaxy with powerful and extended radio jets. The observations reveal CO(1-0), CO(2-1),…

We have made an unbiased survey for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l = 252 deg to 266 deg and b = -5 deg to -1 deg, has revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masanori Nakagawa , T. Onishi , A. Mizuno , Y. Fukui

We report the discovery of eleven high-velocity HI clouds at Galactic latitudes of 25-30 degrees, likely embedded in the Milky Way's nuclear wind. The clouds are detected with deep Green Bank Telescope 21 cm observations of a $3.2^\circ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Rongmon Bordoloi , Andrew J. Fox , Felix J. Lockman

We investigate the dynamical effects of a molecular cloud complex with a mass of about 10**7 M_sun and a size of a few 100 pc on the vertical distribution of stars and atomic hydrogen gas in a spiral galactic disc. Such massive complexes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chanda J. Jog , Chaitra A. Narayan

The halo of NGC 891 has been the subject of studies for more than a decade. One of its most striking features is the large asymmetry in H$\alpha$ emission. In this letter, we will take a quantitative look at this asymmetry at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kamphuis , B. W. Holwerda , R. J. Allen , R. F. Peletier , P. C. van der Kruit

We report the first determination of a distance bracket for the high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex C. Combined with previous measurements showing that this cloud has a metallicity of 0.15 times solar, these results provide ample evidence…

The review is devoted to the Radcliffe Wave recently discovered by Alves et al. from the analysis of molecular clouds. These authors singled out a narrow chain of molecular clouds, elongated almost in one line, located at an inclination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , Yu. N. Mishurov

We compare the molecular cloud properties in sub-galactic regions of two galaxies, barred spiral NGC 1313, which is forming many massive clusters, and flocculent spiral NGC 7793, which is forming significantly fewer massive clusters despite…

We present the highest resolution (1") $^{12}$CO(1-0) observations of molecular gas in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 625, to date, obtained with ALMA. Molecular gas is distributed in discrete clouds within an area of $0.4$ kpc$^2$ and does…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Nia Imara , Ilse De Looze , Christopher M. Faesi , Diane Cormier

We use the $Gaia$ DR2 RR Lyrae sample to gain an uninterrupted view of the Galactic stellar halo. We dissect the available volume in slices parallel to the Milky Way's disc to show that within $\sim30$ kpc from the Galactic centre the halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 G. Iorio , V. Belokurov

We present Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observations of a galaxy-sized intergalactic HI cloud (the Vela Cloud) in the NGC 3256 galaxy group. The group contains the prominent merging galaxy NGC 3256, which is surrounded by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jayanne English , Baerbel Koribalski , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ken Freeman , Claudia McCain

The Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) has long been hypothesized to be tidally disrupting, yet no conclusive evidence has been found for tidal disruption owing partly to difficulties in identifying Hercules member stars. In this work,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Xiaowei Ou , Anirudh Chiti , Nora Shipp , Joshua D. Simon , Marla Geha , Anna Frebel , Mohammad K. Mardini , Denis Erkal , Lina Necib

We analyse velocity, chemical abundance and spatial distribution data for some 1500 K- and M- giants in the Galactic Bulge. The bulge has a well-determined linear rotation curve over the range $\rm 700pc \le R \le 3500pc$ with amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rodrigo Ibata , Gerard Gilmore

We present the results of a search for strong H-alpha emission line galaxies (rest frame equivalent widths greater than 50 A) in the z=0.23 cluster Abell 2390. The survey contains 1189 galaxies over 270 square arcminutes, and is 50%…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael L. Balogh , Simon L. Morris

We report the discovery of molecular gas streams orbiting around an invisible massive object in the central region of our Galaxy, based on the high-resolution molecular line observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Shunya Takekawa , Tomoharu Oka , Yuhei Iwata , Shiho Tsujimoto , Mariko Nomura

The Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey is mapping the entire Arecibo sky at 21-cm, over a velocity range of -700 to +700 km/s (LSR), at a velocity resolution of 0.18 km/s and an angular resolution of 3.5 arcmin. The…

With the HOPS, MALT90 and HiGAL Galactic plane surveys we are mapping a significant fraction of the dense, star-forming, molecular gas in the Galaxy. I present results from two projects based on this combined dataset, namely, (i) looking…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-07 Steven N. Longmore

We present the first results of a multi-wavelength survey, incoporating Herschel-SPIRE, Spitzer, GALEX and ATCA observations, of a 1 deg x 1 deg field centred on Centaurus A. As well as detecting the inner lobes of the active galactic…

We have observed the Galactic Center 50km/s molecular cloud (50MC) with ALMA to search for filamentary structures. In the CS J=2-1 emission line channel maps, we succeeded in identifying 27 molecular cloud filaments using the DisPerSE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Kenta Uehara , Masato Tsuboi , Yoshimi Kitamura , Ryosuke Miyawaki , Atsushi Miyazaki