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... Here we present our first results of a study of the neutral hydrogen gas (HI) in the southern spiral galaxy NGC 253 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Several peculiar features have been found. ... Similar features have been found in other starburst galaxies like M82, NGC 1808 and NGC 4945 and are interpreted in terms of bar-induced gas dynamics and star formation. Keywords. galaxies: individual (NGC 253) - galaxies: active - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics. ...

We explore variations in dust emission within the edge-on Sd spiral galaxy NGC 4631 using 3.6-160 ЮМm Spitzer Space Telescope data and 450-850 ЮМm JCMT data with the goals of understanding the relation between PAHs and dust emission, studying the variations in the colors of the dust emission, and searching for possible excess submillimeter emission compared to what is expected from dust models extrapolated from far-infrared wavelengths. ...

... Subject and Problems of Stellar Astronomy. ... Plane of Galaxy, Methods of Its Location Determination. ... Stars Distances. ... Other Methods of Stars Distances Determination. ... Tangential Velocities, Their Determination by Self-Motions. ... Determination of Solar Apex and Spatial Velocity by Radial and Spatial Velocities of Stars. ... Features of Orientation and Parameters of Peculiar Stellar Velocities Ellipsoid. ... General and Selective Light Absorption in Galaxy. ... Darc Clouds in Galaxy. ...

... 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Nuclear activity and environment Effect of environment on AGN is not completely clear yet. ... 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Effect of the mass Mass slices ­ optical and radio AGN overall interaction one-on-one interaction relative location 05/09/2013 Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades - Cambridge 2013 Stratified study Stratifed study that considers several strata of mass. ...

... Our resulting sample of ELGs presented in Tables 2 and 3 is not artificially biased to any specific type of galaxies. ... Since we are looking for selection of a sample of Case BCGs, it is interesting to examine how the detected BCGs are connected with Case emission-line codes. ... Altogether BCGs comprise about 60 % of all Case ELGs which display emission lines in our spectra, or about 44 % of all Case galaxies with some emission-line code. ... Among those with the code ``w'' about 40 % are BCGs. ...

... Credit: Mischa Schirmer Explanation: What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? ... The cause of the shells is currently unknown, but possibly tidal tails related to debris left over from absorbing numerous small galaxies in the past billion years. Alternatively the shells may be like ripples in a pond, where the ongoing collision with the spiral galaxy to the right of NGC 474 is causing density waves to ripple though the galactic giant. ... Publications with keywords: galaxies - interacting galaxies . ...

... The colors indicate the relative motions of galaxies with accurately measured distances, with shades of green and blue indicating motions toward us and shades of yellow to red indicating motions away from us. Our nearest neighbors have only small relative motions (represented by yellows and greens), as seen best in the exploded view of the right panel. We, along with all these nearest neighbors, are moving together toward the lower right corner of the figures. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... 4. (a) Distribution of distance from the Galactic plane, (b) kinematic diagram, and (c) relation between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane for RR Lyrae stars with [Fe /H ] > -0.95 . ... The solid line in the middle panel is a regression line, whose slope is determined by the subsystem’s rotation rate; the open circles and dashed line correspond to stars with [Fe/H] > -0.4, and the filled circles and dashed line to stars with -0.95 < [Fe/H] < -0.4. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

... Size of the Solar System Compared to our Galaxy . Mentally construct a model of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy and the distribution of stars using your hand and some birdseed. ... Using a strip of paper, construct a quick scale model of the distances between the orbits of the planets, the Asteroid Belt, and Pluto as part of the Kuiper Belt. Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

... A universal physical relation for quasars . ... Harvey Tananbaum and his collaborators have first observed a relation between the soft X-ray and the optical/ultraviolet emission in AGN in 1979. Such relation is nonlinear, and it is usually parameterized as dependence between the logarithm of the monochromatic luminosities at 2500 †Е ( L 2500†Е ) and 2 keV ( L 2keV ) . ... Yet, the dispersion along the L 2500†Е тАУ L 2keV relationship is found to be rather high, typically ~0.35тАУ0.4 in log units. ...

A comparative study of type I and type II supernovae . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (Received 26 November, 1985) . ... No significant difference between SNe I and SNe II has been found in their radial distribution and frequency of outbursts in spiral galaxies. ... The radial distribution of type Ia SNe in spiral galaxies is only slightly steeper than the one for SNe II, while SNe Ib/c are more concentrated towards the central regions. ...

... According to the most popular cosmological paradigm, the greater part of the galaxy mass is accumulated in the dark matter halo. ... The polar ring galaxies (PRGs) reveal external rings or disks of gas, dust and stars rotating in a plane roughly perpendicular to the disk of the central galaxy. ... The shape of the dark halo in the model was chosen so as to achieve the best fit to the observed rotation of both galaxies themselves and their polar rings. ... The SPRC-7 galaxy. ...

... High redshift radio galaxies . ... Verkhodanov O.V., Kopylov A.I., Zhelenkova O.P., Verkhodanova N.V., Chernenkov V.N., Parijskij Yu.N., Soboleva N.S., Temirova A.V. 2000. ... Verkhodanov O.V., Kopylov A.I., Parijskij Yu.N., Soboleva N.S., Temirova A.V. "Color ages of parent galaxies of high redshift radio sources", in Proc. XV Conf. on "Aktualnye problemy vnegalakticheskoi astronomii" ("Current Problems of Extragalactic Astronomy"), Pushchino, May 25--29, 1998, printed in Pushchino Sci. ...

... CV & PUBLICATIONS | ... Nicholls, DC, Dopita, MA, Sutherland, RS, Jerjen, H, & Kewley, LJ " Metal-poor Dwarf Galaxies in the SIGRID Galaxy Sample. ... Nicholls DC, Jerjen, H, Dopita MA, & Basurah, H. (2014) " Nebular Metallicities in Two Isolated Local Void Dwarf Galaxies ", Astrophysical Journal 780, 88 * . ... Sweet SM, Drinkwater MJ, Meurer G, Bekki K, Dopita MA, Kilborn V, & Nicholls DC, " CHOIRS H I Galaxy Groups: The Metallicity of Dwarf Galaxies" , (2014) Astrophysical Journal , 782, 35 * . ...

... Our Galaxy . Milky Way . ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... Other galaxies are not moving away because they are recoiling in disgust from the Milky Way, but appear to be receding because the Universe is expanding. ... Observers in any galaxy will see every other galaxy as redshifted, so there is nothing special about the Milky Way. ... If the Universe is expanding today, that implies that in the past the galaxies would have been closer together and the Universe was much smaller than it is now. ...

Do LIRGs follow the Tully-Fisher relation? ... For a small we can say majority of investigate i Conclusion number of galaxies in our sample, that the T-F relation holds. ... The purpose of this research was to study the LIRGs (Luminous Infrared Galaxies) and see if they follow the Tully-Fisher relation. The LIRGs are different to normal galaxies in the fact that they emit 90% of their light in infrared. ... The faster the galaxy rotates, the wider is the emission line in velocity. ...

... Makarov D.I., Karachentsev I.D., Burennkov A.N., Tyurina N.V., Korotkova G.G. "Rotation curves of edge-on galaxies" . ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I., Sharina M.E., Dolphin A.E., Grebel E.K., Geisler D., Guhathakurta P., Hodge P.W., Karachentseva V.E., Sarajedini A., Seitzer P. "Local galaxy flows within 5 Mpc" . ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "Local Field of Galaxy Velocities" . ... Karachentsev I.D., Makarov D.I. "The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field"...