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astro-ph.GA2009★ 21 cited

High resolution AMI Large Array imaging of spinning dust sources: spatially correlated 8 micron emission and evidence of a stellar wind in L675

Anna M. M. Scaife, David A. Green, Guy G. Pooley +15

We present 25 arcsecond resolution radio images of five Lynds Dark Nebulae (L675, L944, L1103, L1111 & L1246) at 16 GHz made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) Large Array…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 159 cited

Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream

David R. Law, Steven R. Majewski, Kathryn V. Johnston

Observations of the lengthy tidal streams produced by the destruction of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) are capable of providing strong constraints on the shape of the…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 37 cited

Near-Infrared Counterparts to Chandra X-ray Sources toward the Galactic Center. I. Statistics and a Catalog of Candidates

Jon C. Mauerhan, Michael P. Muno, Mark R. Morris +3

We present a catalog of 5184 candidate infrared counterparts to X-ray sources detected towards the Galactic center. The X-ray sample contains 9017 point sources detected in this re…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 144 cited

Radio detection of LAT PSRs J1741-2054 and J2032+4127: no longer just gamma-ray pulsars

F. Camilo, P. S. Ray, S. M. Ransom +24

Sixteen pulsars have been discovered so far in blind searches of photons collected with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We here report the discover…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 23 cited

Out of the frying pan: a young pulsar with a long radio trail emerging from SNR G315.9-0.0

F. Camilo, C. -Y. Ng, B. M. Gaensler +4

The faint radio supernova remnant SNR G315.9-0.0 is notable for a long and thin trail that extends outward perpendicular from the edge of its approximately circular shell. In a sea…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 3 cited

The Accretion of Fuel at the Disk-Halo Interface

M. E. Putman, J. E. G. Peek, F. Heitsch

We discuss the support for the cooling of gas directly at the disk-halo interface as a mechanism to continually fuel a galaxy. This may be an important reservoir as there is not en…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 37 cited

Discovery of the energetic pulsar J1747-2809 in the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1

F. Camilo, S. M. Ransom, B. M. Gaensler +1

The supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 has long been inferred to contain a central energetic pulsar. In observations with the NRAO Green Bank Telescope at 2 GHz, we have detected radio pul…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 44 cited

An OSIRIS study of the gas kinematics in a sample of UV-selected galaxies: Evidence of "Hot and Bothered" starbursts in the local Universe

Antara R. Basu-Zych, Thiago S. Goncalves, Roderik Overzier +6

We present data from Integral Field Spectroscopy for 3 supercompact UV-Luminous Galaxies (ScUVLGs). As nearby (z~0.2), compact (R_50~1-2 kpc), bright Paschen-alpha sources, with un…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 11 cited

Studying Large and Small Scale Environments of Ultraviolet Luminous Galaxies

Antara R. Basu-Zych, David Schiminovich, Sebastien Heinis +23

Studying the environments of 0.4<z<1.2 UV-selected galaxies, as examples of extreme star-forming galaxies (with star formation rates in the range of 3-30 M_sol/yr), we explore the…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 61 cited

A Near-Infrared Survey of the Inner Galactic Plane for Wolf-Rayet Stars I. Methods and First Results: 41 New WR Stars

Michael M. Shara, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Jill Gerke +6

The discovery of new Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in our Galaxy via large-scale narrowband optical surveys has been severely limited by dust extinction. Recent improvements in infrared te…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 14 cited

The disc-dominated host galaxy of FR-I radio source B2 0722+30

B. H. C. Emonts, C. N. Tadhunter, R. Morganti +4

We present new observational results that conclude that the nearby radio galaxy B2 0722+30 is one of the very few known disc galaxies in the low-redshift Universe that host a class…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 145 cited

The Fate of High-Velocity Clouds: Warm or Cold Cosmic Rain?

Fabian Heitsch, Mary E. Putman

We present two sets of grid-based hydrodynamical simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the diffuse, hot Galactic halo. These HI clouds have been suggested to…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 35 cited

New Young Planetary Nebulae in IPHAS

K. Viironen, A. Mampaso, R. L. M. Corradi +12

We search for very small-diameter galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) representing the earliest phases of PN evolution. A recently published IPHAS catalogue of Ha-emitting stars provi…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 32 cited

Electron-ion Recombination of Fe X forming Fe IX and of Fe XI forming Fe X: Laboratory Measurements and Theoretical Calculations

M. Lestinsky, N. R. Badnell, D. Bernhardt +12

We have measured electron-ion recombination for Fe forming Fe and for Fe forming Fe using merged beams at the TSR heavy-ion storage-ring in Heidelberg.…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 23 cited

A peculiar HI cloud near the distant globular cluster Pal 4

Jacco Th. van Loon, Snezana Stanimirovic, Mary Putman +4

We present 21-cm observations of four Galactic globular clusters, as part of the on-going GALFA-HI Survey at Arecibo. We discovered a peculiar HI cloud in the vicinity of the dista…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 26 cited

The Runaway White Dwarf LP400-22 Has a Companion

Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Carlos Allende Prieto +4

We report the detection of a radial velocity companion to the extremely low mass white dwarf LP400-22. The radial velocity of the white dwarf shows variations with a semi-amplitude…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 105 cited

Gas infall towards Sgr A* from the clumpy circumnuclear disk

María Montero-Castaño, Robeson M. Herrnstein, Paul T. P. Ho

We present the first large-scale mosaic performed with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in the Galactic center. We have produced a 25-pointing mosaic, covering a ~2' x 2' area around…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 4 cited

Probing the Galactic Potential with Next-Generation Observations of Disk Stars

T. Sumi, K. V. Johnston, S. Tremaine +2

Near-future surveys promise a dramatic improvement in the number and precision of astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic measurements of stars in the Milky Way's disk. We exami…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 30 cited

Properties of the ionised plasma in the vicinity of the neutron-star X-ray binary EXO 0748-676

J. C. A. van Peet, E. Costantini, M. Méndez +2

We present the spectral analysis of a large set of XMM-Newton observations of EXO 0748-676, a bright dipping LMXB. In particular, we focus on the dipping phenomenon as a result of…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 272 cited

Evidence for a Non-Uniform Initial Mass Function in the Local Universe

Gerhardt R. Meurer, O. I. Wong, J. H. Kim +21

Many results in modern astrophysics rest on the notion that the Initial Mass Function (IMF) is universal. Our observations of HI selected galaxies in the light of H-alpha and the f…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 11 cited

Discovery of the Most-Distant Double-Peaked Emitter at z=1.369

B. Luo, W. N. Brandt, J. D. Silverman +10

We report the discovery of the most-distant double-peaked emitter, CXOECDFS J033115.0-275518, at z=1.369. A Keck/DEIMOS spectrum shows a clearly double-peaked broad Mg II $\lambda2…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 246 cited

Gas Stripping in Simulated Galaxies with a Multiphase ISM

Stephanie Tonnesen, Greg L. Bryan

Cluster galaxies moving through the intracluster medium (ICM) are expected to lose some of their interstellar medium (ISM) through ISM-ICM interactions. We perform high resolution…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 83 cited

ARCADE 2 Observations of Galactic Radio Emission

A. Kogut, D. J. Fixsen, S. M. Levin +8

We use absolutely calibrated data from the ARCADE 2 flight in July 2006 to model Galactic emission at frequencies 3, 8, and 10 GHz. The spatial structure in the data is consistent…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 421 cited

HI in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Stripping by the Galactic Halo

Jana Grcevich, Mary E Putman

We examine the HI content and environment of all of the Local Group dwarf galaxies (M_tot < 10^10 M_solar), including the numerous newly discovered satellites of the Milky Way and…