scholarly journals 21 Cm Hydrogen-Line Survey Of The Large Magellanic Cloud Ii. Distribution And Motions Of Neutral Hydrogen

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  

The 21 cm hydrogen-line data from a survey of the Large Magellanic Oloud with a 14',5 aerial beam have been simplified into distributions of intensities and radial velocities at profile peaks. Fifty-two large HI complexes of mean diameter 575 pc, density I hydrogen atom per cm3, and mass 4 X 106M o have been delineated. The study of the correlation between optically visible Population I components, such as HII regions and supergiant OB stars, and the neutral hydrogen has been greatly extended.

1964 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 515 ◽  
Author(s):  
RX McGee

A recent survey of the neutral hydrogen in the Large Magellanic Cloud with a 14'�5 beam and the 48�channel H�line receiver has afforded an opportunity to compare the radial velocities of a number of optical objects with the radial velocities of the hydrogen gas in their directions.


1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 389-390
Author(s):  
E. Maurice ◽  
N. Martin ◽  
G. Testor ◽  
M. C. Lortet

Accurate radial velocities have been obtained with the CORAVEL photoelectric scanner at ESO, La Silla, for 36 F-M supergiants in the 30 Dor and Shapley II regions of the LMC (5h20m < RA(2000) < 5h50m, −70°09′ < Dec (2000) < −68°30′). On the basis of these data, we revisit the content and spatial extent of the four kinematical groups of F-M supergiants discovered in this area by Prévot et al. 1989. Each is the oldest part of a larger star forming region, recognized by young HII regions or CO clouds, and/or a surrounding Hα + [NII] superbubble. We discuss various gas tracers including the interstellar sodium and calcium lines.


1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. X. McGee ◽  
Lynette M. Newton

Our re-examination of the neutral hydrogen gas in the Small Magellan Cloud has led to four important results. Firstly, we find that Hindman’s (1967) total content HI map is a satisfactory representation of the gas in the line of sight. Secondly, we find that the HI gas in the SMC exists in four distinct large masses separated from one another in radial velocity by 20 to 30 km s−1. Thirdly, having made this division of the gas we show that there is good correlation between the radial velocities of HII regions, supergiant stars and HI. Finally, we believe that our observations reveal that the SMC is associated with an extremely large trailing halo of HI gas which forms the major component of the inter-cloud bridge region.


1964 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. X. McGee ◽  
Janice A. Milton

The neutral hydrogen gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been observed with the 14′.5 beam of the Parkes 210-foot telescope and the 48-channel H-line receiver. We wish to present a progress report based on computer reductions of integrated brightness and median radial velocities for some 4200 profiles. The survey is incomplete for some of the southern regions below dec. −73°. Assisting in the observations were our colleagues, M. W. Sinclair, C. J. Ohlston, and G. H. Trent and the staff at ANRAO, Parkes.


1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungeun Kim ◽  
K. C. Freeman ◽  
L. Staveley-Smith ◽  
R. J. Sault ◽  
M. J. Kesteven ◽  
...  

AbstractThe parameters of a new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen are described. A preliminary peak-brightness-temperature image of the whole of the LMC, and a detailed image of the region around the supergiant shells LMC 4 and 5 is shown.


1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav D. Filipović ◽  
Paul A. Jones ◽  
Graeme L. White ◽  
Raymond F. Haynes

AbstractWe present a comparison between the latest Parkes radio surveys (Filipović et al. 1995, 1996, 1997) and Hα surveys of the Magellanic Clouds (Kennicutt & Hodge 1986). We have found 180 discrete sources in common for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 40 in the field of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Most of these sources (95%) are HII regions and supernova remnants (SNRs). A comparison of the radio and Hα flux densities shows a very good correlation and we note that many of the Magellanic Clouds SNRs are embedded in HII regions.


1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 377-378
Author(s):  
A. Moneti ◽  
R. J. Laureijs ◽  
J.M. van der Hulst ◽  
F. Israel ◽  
P.P. van der Werf

With the detection of strong PAH features and H2 emission in selected knots of the N159, N11A, and 30 Dor regions in the LMC, we present the first results of a study that is part of a coordinated Guaranteed Time ISO programme to investigate star formation in the Magellanic Clouds. The PAH features have different ratios than the ones in Galactic reflection nebulae.


Galaxies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Crowther

A review of the properties of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud is presented, primarily from the perspective of its massive star content. The proximity of the Tarantula and its accessibility to X-ray through radio observations permit it to serve as a Rosetta Stone amongst extragalactic supergiant HII regions since one can consider both its integrated characteristics and the individual properties of individual massive stars. Recent surveys of its high mass stellar content, notably the VLT FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS), are reviewed, together with VLT/MUSE observations of the central ionizing region NGC 2070 and HST/STIS spectroscopy of the young dense cluster R136, provide a near complete Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the region, and cumulative ionizing output. Several high mass binaries are highlighted, some of which have been identified from a recent X-ray survey. Brief comparisons with the stellar content of giant HII regions in the Milky Way (NGC 3372) and Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 346) are also made, together with Green Pea galaxies and star forming knots in high-z galaxies. Finally, the prospect of studying massive stars in metal poor galaxies is evaluated.


1984 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 265-268
Author(s):  
E. Maurice ◽  
N. Martin ◽  
L. Prévot ◽  
E. Rebeirot

Kinematical studies of the Magellanic Clouds began more than half a century ago, when Wilson, in 1918, first interpreted the gradient of the 17 radial velocities of gazeous nebulae in the Large Cloud in terms of rotation. In the case of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the first real attempt to understand the velocity field of this galaxy was performed by the Radcliffe astronomers (Feast et al., 1960, 1961). Their study was based on radial velocities of 40 stars and 13 HII regions.With the installation by ESO of an objective-prisme astrograph in South Africa, in 1961, and then of several larger telescopes in Chile in 1968, the number of measurements significantly increased for Magellanic objects, in particular in the SMC. In this galaxy, the objective-prism observations resulted in about 100 stellar radial velocities (Florsch, 1972a) of probable members. A compilation by Maurice (1979) of all then known slit-spectrograph radial velocities gave velocities for 80 supergiants, 35 HII regions and 12 planetary nebulae.


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