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The Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance Survey
A blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the southern Milky Way has
been conducted with the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope.
The survey covers the Galactic longitude range 212 < l < 36 and Galactic
latitudes |b| < 5, and yields 883 galaxies to a recessional velocity of 12,000
km/s. The survey covers the sky within the HIPASS area to greater sensitivity,
finding lower HI-mass galaxies at all distances, and probing more completely
the large-scale structures at and beyond the distance of the Great Attractor.
Fifty-one percent of the HI detections have an optical/NIR counterpart in the
literature. A further 27% have new counterparts found in existing, or newly
obtained, optical/NIR images. The counterpart rate drops in regions of high
foreground stellar crowding and extinction, and for low-HI mass objects. Only
8% of all counterparts have a previous optical redshift measurement. A notable
new galaxy is HIZOA J1353-58, a possible companion to the Circinus galaxy.
Merging this catalog with the similarly-conducted northern extension (Donley et
al. 2005), large-scale structures are delineated, including those within the
Puppis and Great Attractor regions, and the Local Void. Several
newly-identified structures are revealed here for the first time. Three new
galaxy concentrations (NW1, NW2 and NW3) are key in confirming the diagonal
crossing of the Great Attractor Wall between the Norma cluster and the CIZA
J1324.7-5736 cluster. Further contributors to the general mass overdensity in
that area are two new clusters (CW1 and CW2) in the nearer Centaurus Wall, one
of which forms part of the striking 180 deg (100/h Mpc) long filament that
dominates the southern sky at velocities of ~3000 km/s, and the suggestion of a
further Wall at the Great Attractor distance at slightly higher longitudes.Comment: Published in Astronomical Journal 9 February 2016 (accepted 26
September 2015); 42 pages, 7 tables, 18 figures, main figures data tables
only available in the on-line version of journa
A GBT Survey of the HALOGAS Galaxies and Their Environments I: Revealing the full extent of HI around NGC891, NGC925, NGC4414 & NGC4565
We present initial results from a deep neutral hydrogen (HI) survey of the
HALOGAS galaxy sample, which includes the spiral galaxies NGC891, NGC925,
NGC4414, and NGC4565, performed with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
(GBT). The resulting observations cover at least four deg around these
galaxies with an average 5 detection limit of 1.210
cm over a velocity range of 20 km s and angular scale of 9.1.
In addition to detecting the same total flux as the GBT data, the spatial
distribution of the GBT and original Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
(WSRT) data match well at equal spatial resolutions. The HI mass fraction below
HI column densities of 10 cm is, on average, 2\%. We discuss the
possible origins of low column density HI of nearby spiral galaxies. The
absence of a considerable amount of newly detected HI by the GBT indicates
these galaxies do not have significant extended diffuse HI structures, and
suggests future surveys planned with the SKA and its precursors must go
\textit{at least} as deep as 10 cm in column density to
significantly increase the probability of detecting HI associated with the
cosmic web and/or cold mode accretion.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 28 pages, 15
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HALOGAS observations of NGC 5023 and UGC 2082: Modeling of non-cylindrically symmetric gas distributions in edge-on galaxies
In recent years it has become clear that the vertical structure of disk
galaxies is a key ingredient for understanding galaxy evolution. In particular,
the presence and structure of extra-planar gas has been a focus of research.
The Hydrogen Accretion in LOcal GAlaxieS (HALOGAS) survey aims to provide a
census on the rate of cold neutral gas accretion in nearby galaxies as well as
a statistically significant set of galaxies that can be investigated for their
extra-planar gas properties.
In order to better understand the the vertical structure of the neutral
hydrogen in the two edge-on HALOGAS galaxies NGC 5023 and UGC 2082 we construct
detailed tilted ring models. The addition of distortions resembling arcs or
spiral arms significantly improves the fit of the models to these galaxies. In
the case of UGC 2082 no vertical gradient in rotational velocity is required in
either symmetric models nor non-symmetric models to match the observations. The
best fitting model features two arcs of large vertical extent that may be due
to accretion. In the case of NGC 5023 a vertical gradient is required in
symmetric models (dV/dz = km s kpc) and its
magnitude is significantly lowered when non-symmetric models are considered
(dV/dz = km s kpc). Additionally it is shown that the
underlying disk of NGC 5023 can be made symmetric, in all parameters except the
warp, in non-symmetric models. In comparison to the "classical" modeling these
models fit the data significantly better with a limited addition of free
parameters.Comment: 27 Pages, 22 Figures. Accepted for publication in MNRA
Equation of the field lines of an axisymmetric multipole with a source surface
Optical spectropolarimeters can be used to produce maps of the surface magnetic fields of stars and hence to determine how stellar magnetic fields vary with stellar mass, rotation rate, and evolutionary stage. In particular, we now can map the surface magnetic fields of forming solar-like stars, which are still contracting under gravity and are surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. Their large scale magnetic fields are almost dipolar on some stars, and there is evidence for many higher order multipole field components on other stars. The availability of new data has renewed interest in incorporating multipolar magnetic fields into models of stellar magnetospheres. I describe the basic properties of axial multipoles of arbitrary degree ℓ and derive the equation of the field lines in spherical coordinates. The spherical magnetic field components that describe the global stellar field topology are obtained analytically assuming that currents can be neglected in the region exterior to the star, and interior to some fixed spherical equipotential surface. The field components follow from the solution of Laplace’s equation for the magnetostatic potential
Real-world practice level data analysis confirms link between variability within Blood Glucose Monitoring Strip (BGMS) and glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in Type 1 Diabetes.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Our aim was to quantify the impact of Blood Glucose Monitoring Strips variability (BGMSV) at GP practice level on the variability of reported glycated haemoglobin (HbA1cV) levels. METHODS: Overall GP Practice BGMSV and HbA1cV were calculated from the quantity of main types of BGMS being prescribed combined with the published accuracy, as % results within ±% bands from reference value for the selected strip type. The regression coefficient between the BGMSV and HbA1cV was calculated. To allow for the aggregation of estimated three tests/day over 13 weeks (ie, 300 samples) of actual Blood Glucose (BG) values up to the HbA1c, we multiplied HbA1cV coefficient by √300 to estimate an empirical value for impact of BGMSV on BGV. RESULTS: Four thousand five hundred and twenty-four practice years with 159 700 T1DM patient years where accuracy data were available for more than 80% of strips prescribed were included, with overall BGMSV 6.5% and HbA1c mean of 66.9 mmol/mol (8.3%) with variability of 13 mmol/mol equal to 19% of the mean. At a GP practice level, BGMSV and HbA1cV as % of mean HbA1c (in other words, the spread of HbA1c) were closely related with a regression coefficient of 0.176, P ±4.5 mmol/L from target, compared with the best performing BGMS with BG >±2.2 mmol/L from reference on 1/20 occasions. CONCLUSION: Use of more variable/less accurate BGMS is associated both theoretically and in practice with a larger variability in measured BG and HbA1c, with implications for patient confidence in their day-to-day monitoring experience
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