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We report interstellar C II column densities or upper limits determined from weak absorption of the 2325.4029 A intersystem transition observed in six translucent sightlines with STIS. The sightlines sample a wide range of interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 U. J. Sofia , J. T. Lauroesch , D. M. Meyer , S. I. B. Cartledge

Gas infall and outflow are critical for determining the star formation rate and chemical evolution of galaxies but direct measurements of gas flows are diffcult to make. Young massive stars and HII regions in the halos of galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Y. Stein , D. J. Bomans , A. M. N. Ferguson , R. -J. Dettmar

Within the last 10 years, strong, narrow Na I absorption has appeared at v_sun ~ -38 km/s toward the halo star HD 219188; that absorption has continued to strengthen, by a factor 2-3, over the past three years. The line of sight appears to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel E. Welty , Edward L. Fitzpatrick

[Abridged] We present Gemini-N GMOS-IFU observations of the central starburst clumps and inner wind of M82, together with WIYN DensePak IFU observations of the inner 2x0.9kpc of the disk. These cover the emission lines of H$\alpha$, [NII],…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 M. S. Westmoquette , L. J. Smith , J. S. Gallagher , G. Trancho , N. Bastian , I. S. Konstantopoulos

We report the detection of variable UV absorption lines in NGC 4395, based on UV observations with the HST STIS carried out in April and July, 2004, as part of a reverberation-mapping campaign. Low-ionization lines of O I, N I, Si II, C II,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor

We searched for 21-cm absorption associated with the z_abs = 1.3647 absorption system toward PKS 0237-233 using the GMRT. A high quality UVES spectrum shows that C I and C I* are detected at this redshift together with C II*, Mg I, Mg II,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Raghunathan Srianand , Neeraj Gupta , Patrick Petitjean

(Abridged) We present fine structure and recombination lines observations of the ionized gas toward a sample of 18 sources located within 300 pc of the center of the Galaxy (GC). The fine structure lines from [NII] and [SIII] have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado

We present an ultraviolet quasar absorption line analysis of metal lines associated with three strong intervening H I absorbers (with $N$(H I) $>$ 10$^{16.5}$ cm$^{-2}$) detected in the outskirts of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Jayadev Pradeep , Anand Narayanan , Sowgat Muzahid , Daisuke Nagai , Jane C. Charlton , Raghunathan Srianand

We have used integral field echelle spectroscopy with the DensePak fiber-optic array on the KPNO WIYN telescope to observe the central 27" x 43" of the globular cluster M92 in the Na I D wavelength region at a spatial resolution of 4". Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sean M. Andrews , David M. Meyer , J. T. Lauroesch

Spectral monitoring of the yellow hypergiant $\rho$ Cas with the by 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory with a spectral resolution of R$\ge$60000 has led to the detection of new features in the kinematic state of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 V. G. Klochkova , V. E. Panchuk , N. S. Tavolzhanskaya

Sub-arcsecond images, taken in B, R, and H-Alpha filters, and area spectroscopy obtained with the WIYN 3.5-m telescope provide the basis for an investigation of the unusual structures in the stellar body and ionized gas in and around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher J. Conselice , John S. Gallagher , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

We present high-resolution (FWHM ~ 0.3-1.5 km/s) spectra of interstellar Ca I absorption toward 30 Galactic stars. Comparisons of the column densities of Ca I, Ca II, K I, and other species -- for individual components identified in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel E. Welty , L. M. Hobbs , Donald C. Morton

Four transits of the planet orbiting the star HD209458 were observed with the STIS spectrograph on board HST. The wavelength domain (1180-1710A) includes HI as well as CI, CII, CIV, NV, OI, SI, SiII, SiIII and SiIV lines. During the…

Quasar outflows are fundamental components of quasar environments that might play an important role in feedback to galaxy evolution. We report on the emergence of a remarkable new outflow absorption-line system in the quasar PG1411+442…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Fred Hamann , Todd M. Tripp , David Rupke , Sylvain Veilleux

NGC 1365 is a Seyfert 2 galaxy with a starburst ring in its nuclear region. In this work we look at the XMM Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) data from four 2012-13, three 2007 and two 2004 observations of NGC 1365. We characterise the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-03 M. Whewell , G. Branduardi-Raymont , M. J. Page

A Near-infrared (1.18-1.35 micron) high-resolution spectrum of the gravitationally-lensed QSO APM 08279+5255 was obtained with the IRCS mounted on the Subaru Telescope using the AO system. We detected strong NaI D 5891,5897 doublet…

While studying extraplanar neutral hydrogen in the disk-halo transition of the inner Galaxy we have discovered what appears to be a huge superbubble centered around l ~ 30 deg, whose top extends to latitudes > 25 deg at a distance of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , Joseph C. Shields

We used the Green Bank Telescope to detect molecular lines observed toward Mid-Infrared (MIR) bubbles N62, N65, N90, and N117. The bubbles were selected from Watson et al. (2016) who detected non-Gaussian CS (1-0) emission lines toward the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Kathryn Devine , Johanna Mori , Christer Watson , Leonardo Trujillo , Matthew Hicks

We present moderately-high resolution echelle observations of the nucleus of NGC 5195, the line of sight to which samples intervening interstellar material associated with the outer spiral arm of M51. Our spectra reveal absorption from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-07 Adam M. Ritchey , George Wallerstein