- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/722/395
- Title:
- Compact H I clouds from the GALFA-H I survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/722/395
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array H I (GALFA-H I) survey is mapping the entire Arecibo sky at 21 cm, over a velocity range of -700 to +700 km/s (LSR), at a velocity resolution of 0.18 km/s, and a spatial resolution of 3.5 arcmin. The unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of the GALFA-H I survey have resulted in the detection of numerous isolated, very compact H I clouds at low Galactic velocities, which are distinctly separated from the H I disk emission. In the limited area of ~4600 deg^2^ surveyed so far, we have detected 96 such compact clouds. The detected clouds are cold with a median T_k,max_ (the kinetic temperature in the case in which there is no non-thermal broadening) of 300 K. Moreover, these clouds are quite compact and faint, with median values of 5 arcmin in angular size, 0.75 K in peak brightness temperature, and 5x10^18^/cm2 in H I column density. Most of the clouds deviate from Galactic rotation at the 20-30 km/s level, and a significant fraction show evidence for a multiphase medium and velocity gradients. No counterparts for these clouds were found in other wave bands. From the modeling of spatial and velocity distributions of the whole compact cloud population, we find that the bulk of the compact clouds are related to the Galactic disk, and their distances are likely to be in the range of 0.1 to a few kpc. We discuss various possible scenarios for the formation and maintenance of this cloud population and its significance for Galactic interstellar medium studies.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/411/381
- Title:
- CO observation of isolated galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/411/381
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present ^12^CO(J=1-0) line observations of 99 galaxies obtained with the SEST 15m, the Kitt Peak 12m and the IRAM 30m telescopes. The target galaxies were selected from the catalogue of isolated galaxies of Karachentseva (1973, Cat. <VII/82>). These data are thus representative of the CO properties of isolated late-type galaxies. All objects were observed in their central position, those with large angular sizes were mapped. These new measurements are used to estimate the molecular gas mass of the target galaxies. The molecular gas is on average ~18% of the atomic gas mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/887/5
- Title:
- COS CGM compendium (CCC). III. z<=1 Ly{alpha} syst.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/887/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We characterize the metallicities and physical properties of cool, photoionized gas in a sample of 152 z<=1 strong Ly{alpha} forest systems (SLFSs, absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<16.2). The sample is drawn from our Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) circumgalactic medium compendium (CCC), an ultraviolet survey of HI-selected circumgalactic gas around z<=1 galaxies that targets 261 absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<19. We show that the metallicity probability distribution function of the SLFSs at z<=1 is unimodal, skewed to low metallicities with a mean and median of [X/H]=-1.47 and -1.18dex. Very metal-poor gas with [X/H]{<}-1.4 represents about half of the population of absorbers with 15<logN_HI_<=18, while it is rare at higher N_HI_. Thus, there are important reservoirs of primitive (though not pristine) diffuse ionized gas around z<=1 galaxies. The photoionized gas around z<=1 galaxies is highly inhomogeneous based on the wide range of metallicities observed (-3<=[X/H]<=+0.4) and the fact that there are large metallicity variations (factors of 2 to 25) for most of the closely spaced absorbers ({Delta}v<=300km/s) along the same sightlines. These absorbers show a complex evolution with redshift and HI column density, and we identify subtle cosmic evolution effects that affect the interpretation of metallicity distributions and comparison with other absorber samples. We discuss the physical conditions and cosmic baryon and metal budgets of the CCC absorbers. Finally, we compare the CCC results to recent cosmological zoom simulations and explore the origins of the 15<logN_HI_<19 absorbers within the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) high-resolution simulations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/414/2005
- Title:
- Cosmic flows observations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/414/2005
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The neutral hydrogen properties of 1822 galaxies are being studied with the Green Bank 100-m and the Parkes 64-m telescopes as part of the 'Cosmic Flows' programme. Observed parameters include systemic velocities, profile linewidths and integrated fluxes. The linewidth information can be combined with the optical and infrared photometry to obtain distances. The 1822 HI observations complement an inventory of archives.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/896/3
- Title:
- Cosmicflows-4: Tully-Fisher relation calibrations
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/896/3
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2022 07:21:25
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This study is a part of the Cosmicflows-4 project with the aim of measuring the distances of more than ~10000 spiral galaxies in the local universe up to ~15000km/s. New HI line width information has come primarily from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. Photometry of our sample galaxies has been carried out in optical (SDSS u, g, r, i, and z) and infrared (WISE W1 and W2) bands. Inclinations have been determined using an online graphical interface accessible to a collaboration of citizen scientists. Galaxy distances are measured based on the correlation between the rotation rate of spirals and their absolute luminosity, known as the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR). In this study, we present the calibration of the TFR using a subsample of ~600 spirals located in 20 galaxy clusters. Correlations among such observables as color, surface brightness, and relative HI content are explored in an attempt to reduce the scatter about the TFR with the goal of obtaining more accurate distances. A preliminary determination of the Hubble constant from the distances and velocities of the calibrator clusters is H0=76.0+/-1.1(stat.)+/-2.3(sys.)km/s/Mpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/612/A26
- Title:
- Deep HI observations of Leo T with WSRT
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/612/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Leo T is the lowest mass gas-rich galaxy currently known and studies of its gas content help us understand how such marginal galaxies survive and form stars. We present deep neutral hydrogen (HI) observations from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in order to understand its HI distribution and potential for star formation. We find a larger HI line flux than the previously accepted value, resulting in a 50% larger HI mass of 4.1x10^5^M_{sun}_. The additional HI flux is from low surface brightness emission that was previously missed; with careful masking this emission can be recovered even in shallower data.We perform a Gaussian spectral decomposition to find a cool neutral medium component (CNM) with a mass of 3.7x10^4^M_{sun}_, or almost 10% of the total HI mass. Leo T has no HI emission extending from the main HI body, but there is evidence of interaction with the Milky Way circumgalactic medium in both a potential truncation of the HI body and the offset of the peak HI distribution from the optical center. The CNM component of Leo T is large when compared to other dwarf galaxies, even though Leo T is not currently forming stars and has a lower star formation efficiency than other gas-rich dwarf galaxies. However, the HI column density associated with the CNM component in Leo T is low. One possible explanation is the large CNM component is not related to star formation potential but rather a recent, transient phenomenon related to the interaction of Leo T with the Milky Way circumgalactic medium.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/119/159
- Title:
- Deep survey of HI-selected galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/119/159
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In a 21cm neutral hydrogen survey of approximately 55{deg}^2^ out to a redshift of cz=8340km/s, we have identified 75 extragalactic HI sources. These objects comprise a well-defined sample of extragalactic sources chosen by means that are independent of optical surface brightness selection effects. In this paper we describe the Arecibo survey procedures and HI data, follow-up VLA HI observations made of several unusual sources, and Kitt Peak B-, R-, and I-band photometry for nearly all of the galaxies. We have also gathered information for some of the optically detected galaxies within the same search volume.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/533/A122
- Title:
- Diffuse neutral hydrogen in HIPASS
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/533/A122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Observations of neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about the distribution and kinematics of galaxies. To learn more about large scale structures and accretion processes, the extended environment of galaxies must also be observed. Numerical simulations predict a cosmic web of extended structures and gaseous filaments. To detect HI beyond the ionisation edge of galaxy disks, column density sensitivities have to be achieved that probe the regime of Lyman limit systems. Typically HI observations are limited to a brightness sensitivity of N_HI_~10^19^cm^-2^ but this has to be improved by at least an order of magnitude.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/706
- Title:
- Distances of Galactic HII regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/690/706
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We resolve the kinematic distance ambiguity for 266 inner Galaxy HII regions out of a sample of 291 using existing HI and ^13^CO sky surveys. Our sample contains all HII regions with measured radio recombination line emission over the extent of the ^13^CO Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory Galactic Ring Survey (18<l<55{deg} and |b|<1) and contains ultra compact (UC), compact, and diffuse HII regions. We use two methods for resolving the distance ambiguity for each HII region: HI emission/absorption (HI E/A) and HI self-absorption (HI SA).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/94/127
- Title:
- Distribution of H I in the ISM. I.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/94/127
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We compile, from the existing literature, the largest sample to date (842 data points) of hydrogen column density measurements, N(HI), of the gas in the interstellar medium. We include only results obtained from absorption measurements toward individual stars (594 in our sample) in an effort to construct a three-dimensional picture of the interstellar gas. We derive hydrogen column densities toward a fraction of the stars in the sample from published column density measurements of metal ions. A three-dimensional physical model derived from this data set will be presented in a companion paper. The observed stars span distances from a few parsecs to a few thousand parsecs, and more than half of the sample serves to describe the local interstellar medium within a few hundred parsecs of the Sun. Hydrogen column densities range from 10^17^ to 10^22^cm^-2^. We describe here the various observational methods used to estimate the hydrogen column densities and present the table with the stellar and hydrogen column density data. The provided table is intended as a global reference work, not to introduce new results.
