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Planetary nebulae (PNe) can be used to trace intermediate and old stellar populations in galaxies and the intracluster medium out to approximately 20 Mpc. PNe can be easily identified with narrow-band surveys, and their chemical abundances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holland C. Ford , Eric W. Peng , Kenneth C. Freeman

The kinematics of star-forming galaxy populations at high redshifts are integral to our understanding of disk properties, merger rates, and other defining characteristics. Nebular gas emission is a common tracer of galaxies' gravitational…

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

The dynamics of an elliptical galaxy within a couple of effective radii can be probed effectively by stars. However, at larger distances planetary nebulae (PNe) replace stars as the tracer of the dynamics. Making use of the motion of PNe,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-15 Yong Tian , Chung-Ming Ko

The distributions of galaxy properties vary with environment, and are often multimodal, suggesting that the galaxy population may be a combination of multiple components. The behaviour of these components versus environment holds details…

Using a slitless spectroscopy method with the 8.2 m Subaru telescope and its FOCAS Cassegrain spectrograph, we have increased the number of planetary nebula (PN) detections and PN velocity measurements in the flattened elliptical galaxy NGC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. M. Teodorescu , R. H. Mendez , F. Bernardi , A. Riffeser , R. P. Kudritzki

Aims. Numerous planetary nebulae show complicated inner structures not obviously explained. For one such object we undertake a detailed 3D photoionization and kinematical model analysis for a better understanding of the underlying shaping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 K. Gesicki , A. Zijlstra , M. Hajduk , A. Iwanowska , K. Grzesiak , K. Lisiecki , J. Lipinski

The [O II] lambda3727 emission lines and absorption features from stellar Balmer and Ca H&K lines are the most accessible kinematic diagnotics in galaxies at z~1. We investigate the kinematics of 22 local late-type galaxies using these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chip Kobulnicky , Karl Gebhardt

This paper discusses the location of a sample of planetary nebulae on the HR diagram. We determine the internal velocity fields of 14 planetary nebulae from high-resolution echelle spectroscopy, with the help of photoionization models. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Krzysztof Gesicki , Agnes Acker , Albert A. Zijlstra

This work presents the results of a kinematic analysis of the Galaxy that uses a new model as applied to the newest available Gaia data. We carry out the Taylor decomposition of the velocity field up to second order for 18 million high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 V. S. Akhmetov , B. Bucciarelli , M. Crosta , M. G. Lattanzi , A. Spagna , P. Re Fiorentin , E. Yu. Bannikova

We have selected a group of 100 evolved planetary nebulae (PNe) and study their kinematics based upon spatially-resolved, long-slit, echelle spectroscopy. The data have been drawn from the San Pedro M\'artir Kinematic Catalogue of PNe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Margarita Pereyra , Michael G. Richer , José Alberto López

The image of planetary nebulae is made by three different physical processes. The first process is the expansion of the shell that can be modeled by the canonical laws of motion in the spherical case and by the momentum conservation when…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Clues to the origins and evolution of our Galaxy can be found in the kinematics of stars around us. Remnants of accreted satellite galaxies produce over- densities in velocity-space, which can remain coherent for much longer than spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-08 Martin C. Smith

Aims. We present positions and velocities for 796 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Fornax Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 1316 (Fornax A). The planetary nebulae and existing kinematics are used to explore the rotation of this merger remnant and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Emily K. McNeil-Moylan , Kenneth C. Freeman , Magda Arnaboldi , Ortwin E. Gerhard

We present a method, based on the kinematic analysis of the Galactic disk stars, to clarify whether the internal motions of the stellar system in spiral arms follow those expected in the density wave theory. The method relies on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taihei Yano , Masashi Chiba , Naoteru Gouda

Planetary nebulae have been used as tracers of light and kinematics for the stellar populations in early-type galaxies since more than twenty years. Several empirical properties have surfaced: for example the invariant bright cut-off of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Magda Arnaboldi

(abbreviated) We present the first results of the ESO large program, ``IMAGES'' which aims at obtaining robust measurements of the kinematics of distant galaxies using the multi-IFU mode of GIRAFFE on the VLT. 3D spectroscopy is essential…

We have undertaken a long term program to measure high precision proper motions of nearby Galactic globular cluster (GC) stars using multi-epoch observations with the WFPC2 and the ACS cameras on-board the Hubble Space Telescope. The proper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , I. R. King

We show that the kinematics of the shells seen around some elliptical galaxies provide a new, independent means for measuring the gravitational potentials of elliptical galaxies out to large radii. A numerical simulation of a set of shells…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. R. Merrifield , K. Kuijken

We present models the gas physics and dynamics of the inner 50 pc of the Galaxy. In a first step the gas properties of an isolated clumpy circumnuclear disk were analytically investigated. We took the external UV radiation field, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , W. J. Duschl , R. Zylka