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We present a 93' by 93' map of the area near the Local Group dwarf galaxy LGS 3, centered on an HI cloud 30' away from the galaxy. Previous authors associated this cloud with LGS 3 but relied on observations made with a 36' beam. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timothy Robishaw , Joshua D. Simon , Leo Blitz

We report HI 21-cm line observations of the AGB star X Her obtained with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Very Large Array (VLA). We have detected HI emission totaling M_HI=2.1e-03 M_sun associated with the circumstellar envelope of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. D. Matthews , Y. Libert , E. Gerard , T. Le Bertre , M. C. Johnson , T. M. Dame

The Smith Cloud is a massive system of metal-poor neutral and ionized gas M_gas >= 2x10^6 M_sun) that is presently moving at high velocity (V_GSR ~300 km s^-1) with respect to the Galaxy at a distance of 12 kpc from the Sun. The kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Nichols , J. Bland-Hawthorn

Very sensitive HI 21cm observations have been made in 860 directions at dec >= -43deg in search of weak, Galactic, high-velocity HI emission lines at moderate and high Galactic latitudes. One-third of the observations were made toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman , Edward M. Murphy , Sara Petty-Powell , Vincent J. Urick

We investigate the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and gas surface densities in Galactic star forming regions using a sample of YSOs and massive clumps. Our YSO sample consists of objects located in 20 molecular clouds from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Amanda Heiderman , Neal J. Evans , Lori E. Allen , Tracy Huard , Mark Heyer

Using the VLA, we have made spectral-line and continuum observations of the neutral hydrogen in the direction of the compact group of galaxies Stephan's Quintet. The high-velocity clouds between 5600 and 6600 km/s, the disk of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. A. Williams , M. S. Yun , L. Verdes-Montenegro

We study the relationship between the [CII] emission and the star formation rate (SFR) in the Galactic plane and separate the relationship of different ISM phases to the SFR. We compare these relationships to those in external galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-05 Jorge L. Pineda , William D. Langer , Paul F. Goldsmith

The first observations of the recently completed Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) facility include a study of emission lines from high velocity clouds in the M, A, and C complexes, with most of the observations on the M I cloud. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. L. Tufte , R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We observed OH, H$_2$O, HN$_3$, C$^{18}$O, and C$_I$ towards the +50 km/s cloud (M-0.02-0.07), the CND and the +20 km/s (M-0.13-0.08) cloud in the Sgr A complex with the VLA, Odin and SEST. Strong OH absorption, H$_2$O emission and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Roland Karlsson , Aage Sandqvist , Åke Hjalmarson , Anders Winnberg , Kambiz Fathi , Urban Frisk , Michael Olberg

We found that an intermediate velocity cloud (IVC) IVC 86-36 in HI 21 cm emission shows a head-tail distribution toward the Galactic plane with marked parallel filamentary streamers, which is extended over 40 degrees in the sky. The…

As part of a program to study the relationship between QSO Lyman alpha clouds and galaxies at low redshifts, we have obtained a high signal-to-noise far UV spectrum of H 1821+643 [z(em) = 0.297] with the G140L grating of the GHRS. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. M. Tripp , L. Lu , B. D. Savage

Fine-structure mid-infrared emission lines with critical densities in the regime 10^4 to 10^6 cm^-3 can be employed to probe the outflow from Wolf-Rayet stars at radii of \sim 10^15 cm. Narrow-band mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. F. Roche , M. D. Colling , M. J. Barlow

We have used the WSRT to carry out an unbiased wide-field survey of HI emission features, achieving an RMS sensitivity of about 18 mJy/Beam at a velocity resolution of 17 km/s over 1800 deg^2. In this paper we present our HI detections at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Braun , David Thilker

Spectra obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope GHRS are combined with high-resolution optical spectra and UV spectra from Copernicus to study the abundances and physical conditions in the diffuse interstellar clouds seen along the line of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. E. Welty , L. M. Hobbs , J. T. Lauroesch , D. C. Morton , L. Spitzer , D. G. York

Observations are reported of H2 IR emission in the S(1) v=1-0 line at 2.121 microns in the Orion Molecular Cloud, OMC1, using the GriF instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. GriF is a combination of adaptive optics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. D. Nissen , M. Gustafsson , J. L. Lemaire , Y. Clenet , D. Rouan , D. Field

We present near-infrared spectroscopy of H-alpha emission lines in a sample of 16 star-forming galaxies at redshifts 2.0<z<2.6. Our targets are drawn from a large sample of galaxies photometrically selected and spectroscopically confirmed…

We study an undocumented large translucent cloud, detected by means of its enhanced radiation on the SHASSA (Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas) survey. We consider whether its excess surface brightness can be explained by light scattered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Lehtinen , M. Juvela , K. Mattila

We report the detection of extremely broad emission toward two molecular clumps in the Galactic central molecular zone. We have mapped the Sagittarius C complex ($-0^\circ.61 < l < -0^\circ.27$, $-0^\circ.29 < b < 0^\circ.04$) in the HCN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Kunihiko Tanaka , Tomoharu Oka , Shinji Matsumura , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai

Halpha and Hbeta spectroscopy with the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) reveals a strong concentration of high velocity emission in a ~ 5 by 5 deg area centered near (l.b) = (27,-3), known as the Scutum Cloud. The high velocities imply that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. J. Madsen , R. J. Reynolds