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ACA CO(J=2-1) Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. II. Exploring the Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds
Ayu Konishi, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Kazuki Tokuda +12
The evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main sites of high-mass star formation, is an essential process to unravel the galaxy evolution. Using a GMC catalogue of M33 fr…
ACA CO() Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. I. Initial Results and Identification of Molecular Clouds
Kazuyuki Muraoka, Ayu Konishi, Kazuki Tokuda +18
We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m-array observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local…
Sociology and hierarchy of voids: A study of seven nearby CAVITY galaxy voids and their dynamical CosmicFlows-3 environment
H. M. Courtois, R. van de Weygaert, M. Aubert +14
Context. The present study addresses a key question related to our understanding of the relation between void galaxies and their environment: the relationship between luminous and…
CO(=1-0) mapping survey of 64 galaxies in the Fornax cluster with the ALMA Morita array
Kana Morokuma-Matsui, Kenji Bekki, Jing Wang +18
We conduct a CO(=1-0) (hereafter CO) mapping survey of 64 galaxies in the Fornax cluster using the ALMA Morita array in cycle 5. CO emission is detected from 23 ou…
A Giant Molecular Cloud Catalog in the Molecular Disk of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
E. R. Miura, D. Espada, A. Hirota +17
We present the first census of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) complete down to 10 and within the inner 4 kpc of the nearest giant elliptical and powerful radio galaxy,…
ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 III: Spatially Resolved Features of the Star-Formation Inactive Million-solar-mass Cloud
Hiroshi Kondo, Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuyuki Muraoka +16
We present CO ( = 2-1), CO ( = 2-1), and CO ( = 2-1) observations toward GMC-8, one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M33 using ALM…
ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33. II. Triggered High-mass Star Formation by Multiple Gas Colliding Events at the NGC 604 Complex
Kazuyuki Muraoka, Hiroshi Kondo, Kazuki Tokuda +13
We present the results of ALMA observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() lines and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward a massive ($\sim 10^6 M_{\o…
The ALMA Survey of 70 m dark High-mass clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). I. Pilot Survey: Clump Fragmentation
Patricio Sanhueza, Yanett Contreras, Benjamin Wu +20
(Abridged) ASHES has been designed to systematically characterize the earliest stages and to constrain theories of high-mass star formation. A total of 12 massive (>500 …
ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 I: Resolving Star Formation Activities in the Giant Molecular Filaments Possibly Formed by a Spiral Shock
Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Hiroshi Kondo +14
We report molecular line and continuum observations toward one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs), GMC-16, in M33 using ALMA with an angular resolution of 044 $\…
Star Formation Efficiencies at Giant Molecular Cloud Scales in the Molecular Disk of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
D. Espada, S. Verley, R. E. Miura +15
We present ALMA CO(1-0) observations toward the dust lane of the nearest elliptical and radio galaxy, NGC 5128 (Centaurus A), with high angular resolution ( 1 arcsec, or 18 p…
Complex distribution and velocity field of molecular gas in NGC 1316 as revealed by Morita Array of ALMA
Kana Morokuma-Matsui, Paolo Serra, Filippo M. Maccagni +11
We present the results of CO(=1-0) mosaicing observations of the cD galaxy NGC 1316 at kpc-resolution performed with the Morita Array of the Atacama Large Millimeter/subm…
Molecular gas and Star Formation Properties in Early Stage Mergers: SMA CO(2-1) Observations of the LIRGs NGC 3110 and NGC 232
D. Espada, S. Martin, S. Verley +13
Mergers of galaxies are an important mode for galaxy evolution because they serve as an efficient trigger of powerful starbursts. However, observational studies of the molecular ga…
ALMA Observations toward the starburst dwarf galaxy NGC 5253: I. Molecular cloud properties and scaling relations
Rie E. Miura, Daniel Espada, Akihiko Hirota +3
We present high-spatial-resolution ($\sim 0\farcs2$, or 3\,pc) CO(2--1) observations of the nearest young starburst dwarf galaxy, NGC\,5253, taken with the Atacama Large Mill…
ALMA CO (J=1--0) imaging of the nearby galaxy M83: Variations in the efficiency of star formation in giant molecular clouds
Akihiko Hirota, Fumi Egusa, Junichi Baba +6
We present results of the CO (1--0) mosaic observations of the nearby barred-spiral galaxy M83 obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The tot…
Gas, Dust, Stars, Star Formation and their Evolution in M33 at Giant Molecular Cloud Scales
Shinya Komugi, Rie E. Miura, Nario Kuno +1
We report on a multi parameter analysis of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. A catalog of GMCs identifed in 12CO(J=3-2) was used to compile associated…
Triggering the formation of the supergiant H II region NGC 604 in M33
Kengo Tachihara, Pierre Gratier, Hidetoshi Sano +4
Formation mechanism of a supergiant H II region NGC 604 is discussed in terms of collision of H I clouds in M33. An analysis of the archival H I data obtained with the Very Large A…
Tests of star formation metrics in the low metallicity galaxy NGC 5253 using ALMA observations of H30 line emission
G. J. Bendo, R. E. Miura, D. Espada +5
We use Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of H30 (231.90 GHz) emission from the low metallicity dwarf galaxy NGC 5253 to measure the star formation…
Disentangling the Circumnuclear Environs of Centaurus A: III. An Inner Molecular Ring, Nuclear Shocks and the CO to warm H2 interface
D. Espada, S. Matsushita, R. E. Miura +11
We present the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in the circumnuclear disk (CND, 400 pc x 200 pc) of Centaurus A with resolutions of ~5 pc (0.3 arcsec) and shed ligh…
Dense Molecular Clumps associated with the LMC Supergiant Shells LMC 4 \& LMC 5
Kosuke Fujii, Tetsuhiro Minamidani, Norikazu Mizuno +14
We investigate the effects of Supergiant Shells (SGSs) and their interaction on dense molecular clumps by observing the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) star forming regions N48 and N4…
Enhancement of CO(3-2)/CO(1-0) Ratios and Star Formation Efficiencies in Supergiant HII Regions
Rie E. Miura, Kotaro Kohno, Tomoka Tosaki +13
We present evidence that super giant HII regions (GHRs) and other disk regions of the nearby spiral galaxy, M33, occupy distinct locations in the correlation between molecular gas,…
Giant Molecular Clouds and Star Formation in the Tidal Molecular Arm of NGC 4039
D. Espada, S. Komugi, E. Muller +23
The properties of tidally induced arms provide a means to study molecular cloud formation and the subsequent star formation under environmental conditions which in principle are di…
NRO M33 All-Disk Survey of Giant Molecular Clouds (NRO MAGiC): II. Dense Gas Formation within Giant Molecular Clouds in M33
Sachiko Onodera, Nario Kuno, Tomoka Tosaki +9
We report the results of our observations of the 12CO (J=1-0) and 12CO (J=3-2) line emission of 74 major giant molecular clouds (GMCs) within the galactocentric distance of 5.1 kpc…
GMC Evolutions in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M33
Rie E. Miura, Kotaro Kohno, Tomoka Tosaki +13
We present a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) catalog toward M33, containing 71 GMCs in total, based on wide field and high sensitivity CO(J=3-2) observations with a spatial resolution…
13CO(J=1-0) On-the-fly Mapping of the Giant HII Region NGC 604: Variation in Molecular Gas Density and Temperature due to Sequential Star Formation
Kazuyuki Muraoka, Tomoka Tosaki, Rie Miura +5
We present 13CO(J=1-0) line emission observations with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope toward the giant HII region NGC 604 in the spiral galaxy M 33. We detected 13CO(J=1-0) line emiss…