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Optical Spectroscopy of Galactic Cirrus Clouds: Extended Red Emission in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
Arpad Szomoru, Puragra Guhathakurta
We present initial results from the first optical spectroscopic survey of high latitude Galactic cirrus clouds. The observed shape of the cirrus spectrum does not agree with that o…
Relative Sizes of X-ray and Optical Images of Elliptical Galaxies; Correlation with X-ray Luminosity
William G. Mathews, Fabrizio Brighenti
Optical parameters of elliptical galaxies are tightly correlated, but their x-ray parameters vary widely. The x-ray luminosity L_x ranges over more than an order of magnitude for e…
Recent X-ray Observations and the Evolution of Hot Gas in Elliptical Galaxies: Evidence for Circumgalactic Gas
Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews
X-ray emitting gaseous halos, such as that in elliptical galaxies like NGC 4472, cannot have been produced solely from gas expelled from galactic stars. In traditional models for t…
On the global warping of a thin self-gravitating near Keplerian gaseous disk with application to the disk in NGC 4258
John C. B. Papaloizou, Caroline Terquem, Doug N. C. Lin
On the global warping of a thin self-gravitating near Keplerian gaseous disk with application to the disk in NGC 4258
The Luminosity Function for L>L* Galaxies at z > 3
Matthew A. Bershady, Steven R. Majewski, David C. Koo +2
Through use of multiband (U, B, R, I) photometry we have isolated high redshift (3.0<z<3.5) galaxy candidates in a survey of 1.27 deg^2 to R = 21.25 and a survey of 0.02 deg^2 to R…
The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres
John Magorrian, Scott Tremaine, Douglas Richstone +9
We construct dynamical models for a sample of 36 nearby galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope photometry and ground-based kinematics. The models assume that each galaxy is axisymmet…
X-Ray Observations and the Structure of Elliptical Galaxies
Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews
We compare optical and high quality x-ray data for three bright ellipticals in the Virgo cluster, NGC 4472, 4649, and 4636. The distribution of total mass in NGC 4472 and 4649 dete…
Evolution of Interstellar Gas in Rapidly Rotating Elliptical Galaxies: Formation of Disks
Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews
We describe the evolution of hot interstellar gas in a family of low luminosity elliptical galaxies all having but with different degrees of flattening (E0, E2, and E6)…
Rapid Bursts From GRS 1915+105 with RXTE
Ronald E. Taam, Xingming Chen, Jean H. Swank
The light curves of GRS 1915+105 observed with RXTE on October 15, 1996 reveal a wide range of transient activity including regular bursts with a recurrence time of about 1 minute,…
Protostellar fragmentation in a power-law density distribution
A. Burkert, M. Bate, P. Bodenheimer
Hydrodynamical calculations in three space dimensions of the collapse of an isothermal, rotating 1 M\sol protostellar cloud are presented. The initial density stratification is a p…
Self-Generated Magnetic Fields in Galactic Cooling Flows
William G. Mathews, Fabrizio Brighenti
Interstellar magnetic fields in elliptical galaxies are assumed to have their origin in stellar fields that accompany normal mass loss from an evolving population of old stars. The…
Double Neutron Star Systems and Natal Neutron Star Kicks
Chris Fryer, Vassiliki Kalogera
We study the four double neutron star systems found in the Galactic disk in terms of the orbital characteristics of their immediate progenitors and the natal kicks imparted to neut…
Malmquist Bias and the Distance to the Virgo Cluster
Anthony H. Gonzalez, S. M. Faber
This paper investigates the impact of Malmquist bias on the distance to the Virgo cluster determined by the H_0 Key Project using M100, and consequently on the derived value of H_0…
A Pair of Lensed Galaxies at z=4.92 in the Field of CL1358+62
Marijn Franx, Garth D. Illingworth, Daniel D. Kelson +2
The cluster CL1358+62 displays a prominent red arc in WFPC2 images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. Keck spectra of the arc show Ly alpha emission at 7204 Angstrom, a cont…
The Nature of Compact Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (II): Spectroscopic Properties and Implications for the Evolution of the Star Formation Rate Density of the Universe
R. Guzmán, J. Gallego, D. C. Koo +5
We present a spectroscopic study of 51 compact field galaxies with redshifts z < 1.4 and apparent magnitudes I < 23.74 in the flanking fields of the Hubble Deep Field. These galaxi…
Spectroscopic Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B
John Kormendy, Ralf Bender, John Magorrian +7
The stellar kinematics of the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B have been measured in seeing sigma_* = .22 arcsec with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Lauer et al. 1996, ApJ, 4…
Line-Strength Indices in Bright Spheroidals: Evidence for a Stellar Population Dichotomy between Spheroidal and Elliptical Galaxies
J. Gorgas, S. Pedraz, R. Guzman +2
We present new measurements of central line-strength indices (namely Mg2, <Fe>, and Hbeta and gradients for a sample of 6 bright spheroidal galaxies (Sph's) in the Virgo cluster. C…
Optical Rotation Curves of Distant Field Galaxies: Sub-L* Systems
Nicole P. Vogt, Andrew C. Phillips, S. M. Faber +6
Moderate-resolution spectroscopic observations from the Keck 10m telescope are used to derive internal kinematics for eight faint disk galaxies in the fields flanking the Hubble De…
Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in Distant Clusters: The Fundamental Plane using HST Imaging and Keck Spectroscopy
Daniel D. Kelson, Pieter G. van Dokkum, Marijn Franx +2
We present new results on the Fundamental Plane of galaxies in two rich clusters, Cl1358+62 at and MS2053--04 at , based on Keck and HST observations. Our new data…
A Lower Bound on the Cosmic Baryon Density
David H. Weinberg, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Lars Hernquist +1
We derive analytic lower bounds on the cosmic baryon density by requiring that the high-redshift IGM contain enough neutral hydrogen to produce the observed \lya absorption in quas…