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astro-ph.GA2015★ 44 cited

The JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey X. Environmental Effects on the Molecular Gas and Star Formation Properties of Spiral Galaxies

Angus Mok, C. D. Wilson, J. Golding +9

We present a study of the molecular gas properties in a sample of 98 HI - flux selected spiral galaxies within Mpc, using the CO line observed with the James Clerk…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 103 cited

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. XIV. Physical Properties of Massive Starless and Star Forming Clumps

Brian E Svoboda, Yancy L Shirley, Cara Battersby +8

We sort molecular clouds between from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey based on observational diagnostics of star formation activity: compact $70…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 85 cited

Spectrum and Anisotropy of Turbulence from Multi-Frequency Measurement of Synchrotron Polarization

Alex Lazarian, Dmitri Pogosyan

We consider turbulent synchrotron emitting media that also exhibits Faraday rotation and provide a statistical description of synchrotron polarization fluctuations. In particular,…

astro-ph.GA2015

Bridging Galaxy Dynamics and Baryon Efficiency of 40 EDGE-CALIFA galaxies

Veselina Kalinova, Dario Colombo, Erik Rosolowsky +1

We apply the Jeans Axisymmetric Multi-Gaussian Expansion method to the stellar kinematic maps of 40 Sa-Sd EDGE-CALIFA galaxies and derive their circular velocity curves (CVCs). The…

astro-ph.GA2015

The road toward a full, high resolution Molecular Cloud catalog of the Galaxy

Dario Colombo, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam Ginsburg +2

The statistical description of Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) properties relies heavily on the performance of automatic identification algorithms, which are often seriously affected b…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 109 cited

Graph-based interpretation of the Molecular Interstellar Medium Segmentation

Dario Colombo, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam Ginsburg +2

We present a generalization of the Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) identification problem based on cluster analysis. The method we designed, SCIMES (Spectral Clustering for Interstella…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 39 cited

Dense Gas Fraction and Star Formation Efficiency Variations in the Antennae Galaxies

Frank Bigiel, Adam K. Leroy, Leo Blitz +5

We use the CARMA millimeter interferometer to map the Antennae Galaxies (NGC4038/39), tracing the bulk of the molecular gas via the 12CO(1-0) line and denser molecular gas via the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 46 cited

Gravitational torques imply molecular gas inflow towards the nucleus of M51

M. Querejeta, S. Meidt, E. Schinnerer +10

The transport of gas towards the centre of galaxies is critical for black hole feeding and, indirectly, it can control active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. We have quantified th…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 53 cited

Outer-disk reddening and gas-phase metallicities: The CALIFA connection

R. A. Marino, A. Gil de Paz, S. F. Sánchez +27

We study, for the first time in a statistically significant and well-defined sample, the relation between the outer-disk ionized-gas metallicity gradients and the presence of break…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 45 cited

Towards a new classification of galaxies: principal component analysis of CALIFA circular velocity curves

Veselina Kalinova, Dario Colombo, Erik Rosolowsky +16

We present a galaxy classification system for 238 (E1-Sdm) CALIFA (Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area) galaxies based on the shapes and amplitudes of their circular velocity cur…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 85 cited

Back to the Future: Estimating Initial Globular Cluster Masses from their Present Day Stellar Mass Functions

Jeremy J. Webb, Nathan W. C. Leigh

We use N-body simulations to model the 12 Gyr evolution of a suite of star clusters with identical initial stellar mass functions over a range of initial cluster masses, sizes, and…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

What is a GMC? Are Observers and Simulators Discussing the Same Star-forming Clouds?

Hsi-An Pan, Yusuke Fujimoto, Elizabeth J. Tasker +4

As both simulations and observations reach the resolution of the star-forming molecular clouds, it becomes important to clarify if these two techniques are discussing the same obje…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 12 cited

M-dwarf binaries as tracers of star and brown dwarf formation

Michael Marks, Markus Janson, Pavel Kroupa +2

The separation distribution for M-dwarf binaries in the ASTRALUX survey is narrower and peaking at smaller separations than the distribution for solar-type binaries. This is often…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 311 cited

The CALIFA survey across the Hubble sequence: Spatially resolved stellar population properties in galaxies

R. M. González Delgado, R. García-Benito, E. Pérez +32

This paper characterizes the radial structure of stellar population properties of galaxies in the nearby universe, based on 300 galaxies from the CALIFA survey. The sample covers a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 42 cited

The incidence of bar-like kinematic flows in CALIFA galaxies

L. Holmes, K. Spekkens, S. F. Sánchez +8

We carry out a direct search for bar-like non-circular flows in intermediate-inclination, gas-rich disk galaxies with a range of morphological types and photometric bar classificat…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 246 cited

MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations - IV. A new Scenario for Intermediate Mass Black Hole Formation in Globular Clusters

M. Giersz, N. Leigh, A. Hypki +2

We discuss a new scenario for the formation of intermediate mass black holes in dense star clusters. In this scenario, intermediate mass black holes are formed as a result of dynam…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 17 cited

Nuclear star cluster formation in energy-space

N. W. C. Leigh, I. Y. Georgiev, T. Boeker +2

In a virialized stellar system, the mean-square velocity is a direct tracer of the energy per unit mass of the system. Here, we exploit this to estimate and compare root-mean-squar…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

Variable Hard X-ray Emission from the Candidate Accreting Black Hole in Dwarf Galaxy Henize 2-10

Thomas J. Whalen, Ryan C. Hickox, Amy E. Reines +5

We present an analysis of the X-ray spectrum and long-term variability of the nearby dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10. Recent observations suggest that this galaxy hosts an activ…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 18 cited

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. XIII. Physical Properties and Mass Functions of Dense Molecular Cloud Structures

Timothy P. Ellsworth-Bowers, Jason Glenn, Allyssa Riley +7

We use the distance probability density function (DPDF) formalism of Ellsworth-Bowers et al. (2013, 2015) to derive physical properties for the collection of 1,710 Bolocam Galactic…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 28 cited

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: SCUBA-2 observations of circumstellar disks in L 1495

J. V. Buckle, E. Drabek-Maunder, J. Greaves +51

We present 850m and 450m data from the JCMT Gould Belt Survey obtained with SCUBA-2 and characterise the dust attributes of Class I, Class II and Class III disk sources in L1…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 152 cited

The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the SCUBA-2 observations of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud and a virial analysis of its prestellar core population

K. Pattle, D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk +59

In this paper we present the first observations of the Ophiuchus molecular cloud performed as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Gould Belt Survey (GBS) with the SCUB…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 56 cited

Measuring star formation with resolved observations: the test case of M33

M. Boquien, D. Calzetti, S. Aalto +15

Context. Measuring star formation at a local scale is important to constrain star formation laws. Yet, it is not clear whether and how the measure of star formation is affected by…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 73 cited

Giant Molecular Clouds in the Early-Type Galaxy NGC4526

Dyas Utomo, Leo Blitz, Timothy Davis +4

We present a high spatial resolution ( pc) of CO() observations of the lenticular galaxy NGC4526. We identify 103 resolved Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) and…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 124 cited

ALMA Multi-line Imaging of the Nearby Starburst Galaxy NGC 253

David S. Meier, Fabian Walter, Alberto D. Bolatto +8

We present spatially resolved (50 pc) imaging of molecular gas species in the central kiloparsec of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253, based on observations taken with the…