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SparsePak Observations of Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo Kinematics in NGC 891

G. H. Heald, R. J. Rand, R. A. Benjamin, M. A. Bershady

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0508559

Abstract

We present WIYN SparsePak observations of the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) halo of NGC 891. Preliminary results of an analysis of the halo velocity field reveal a clear gradient of the azimuthal velocity with z which agrees with results for the neutral gas. The magnitude of the gradient has been determined, using two independent methods, to be approximately 15 km/s/kpc.

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