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Extended Molecular Gas Distribution In Mrk 273 And Merger-Luminosity Evolution, Min S. Yun, N Z. Scoville Oct 1995

Extended Molecular Gas Distribution In Mrk 273 And Merger-Luminosity Evolution, Min S. Yun, N Z. Scoville

Min S. Yun

We present the first interferometric measurement of CO emission (θ ~ 2'') from the ultraluminous infrared galaxy Mrk 273. A total H2 mass of 3.6 × 1010 Msun is inferred from the CO observations, half of which belongs to an extended component with deconvolved size 5.1 × 2.5 kpc. In addition, an unresolved molecular gas complex is found to be coincident with the optical nucleus. The inferred H2 mass, size (R ~ 380 pc), and mean surface mass density (ΣH2 ≥ 4 × 104 Msun pc-3) of this complex, as well as the IR luminosity, are very similar to those …


Production Of Milky-Way Structure By The Magellanic-Clouds, Md Weinberg Jan 1995

Production Of Milky-Way Structure By The Magellanic-Clouds, Md Weinberg

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

Previous attempts at disturbing the galactic disk by the Magellanic Clouds relied on direct tidal forcing. However, by allowing the halo to actively respond rather than remain a rigid contributor to the rotation curve, the Clouds may produce a wake in the halo which then distorts the disk. Recent work reported here suggests that the Magellanic Clouds use this mechanism to produce disk distortions sufficient to allow for both the radial location, position angle and sign of the HI warp and observed anomalies in stellar kinematics toward the galactic anticenter and LSR motion.


Extended Molecular Gas In Fsc 10214+4724, N Z. Scoville, Min S. Yun, R L. Brown, P A. Vanden Bout Jan 1995

Extended Molecular Gas In Fsc 10214+4724, N Z. Scoville, Min S. Yun, R L. Brown, P A. Vanden Bout

Min S. Yun

e report high resolution imaging of the CO (3-2) emission in the luminous infrared source FSC 10214+4724 at z = 2.2853. Maps at resolutions of 2farcs3 × 3farcs0 and 45-90 km s-1 show the CO emission peak coinciding with those of Hα and radio continuum. Two components are identified in the CO emission: an unresolved core and an extended source (~1farcs9 × 4farcs4)—elongated southeast-northwest. The implied size is 9 × 24 kpc for H0 = 75 km s-1 Mpc-1 and q0 = 0.5. The extent of the CO emission is significantly greater than that of either the optical or the …