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20162026
most citedThe PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

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60 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

From Scaling Relations to Physical Laws: Constraining the Physics of Star Formation Across Local Galaxies

Jakob den Brok, Cecilia Bacchini, Leindert A. Boogaard +21

The conversion of cold dense gas, traced by molecular line emission, into stars remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in galaxy evolution. Observations over the past dec…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VIII: A Survey of Compact, High-Velocity Features Observed in CS(2-1)

Dani R. Lipman, Jakub Poznanski, Savannah R. Gramze +46

The extreme kinematics of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) are influenced by processes such as dynamical shearing, cloud collisions, and stellar feedback. These events…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone

Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…

astro-ph.GA2026

Electron temperature and emission measure of HII regions in the central molecular zone (CMZ) from H40 αrecombination line and continuum emissions by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey - ACES -

Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker +40

Star formation activity in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) directly manifests itself as radio continuum free-free emission (Bremsstrahlung) and radio recombination line emission f…

astro-ph.GA2026

IRIS: Deciphering Spectral-Line Imagery of the Galactic Center by Machine-Learning on Simulations

B. L. DuBois, Cara Battersby, Jonah C. Baade +11

In understanding the 3D structure of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), we are limited by our edge-on perspective. Towards addressing this problem, we introduce Imagery…

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulating winds in the Galactic centre: I. Supernova-driven multiphase outflows and HI cloud acceleration

Nicolas Peschken, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Michał Hanasz +5

The centre of the Milky Way (MW) hosts powerful multiphase outflows, as evidenced by the Fermi and eROSITA bubbles, and by cold atomic hydrogen (HI) gas clouds detected up to a few…

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulations of gas inflow in the Milky Way I. Stellar-Feedback-Regulated Transport from the Central Molecular Zone to the Circumnuclear disk

Zi-Xuan Feng, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress +18

We perform hydrodynamical simulations with radially varying resolution to study the effects of stellar feedback on the radial inflow of gas from the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ, $R…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Are supernovae driving turbulence in the solar neighborhood?

Georges Abboudeh, Patrick Hennebelle, Juan D. Soler +9

Turbulence plays an important role in shaping the interstellar medium, and strongly influences star formation. We aim to identify the physical processes capable of sustaining HI tu…

astro-ph.GA2026

3D CMZ V: A new orbital model of our Galaxy's Center, informed by data across the electromagnetic spectrum

Dani R. Lipman, Cara Battersby, Daniel Walker +9

The 3D structure of The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) informs our understanding of star formation cycles, black hole accretion, and the evolution of galactic nuclei. How…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) V: CS(2-1), SO(2_3-1_2), CH3CHO(5_1,4-4_1,3), HC3N(11-10), and H40a lines data

Pei-Ying Hsieh, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +59

We present data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which provides broad spectral-line and 3 mm continuum coverage of the Central Molecula…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows

Xing Lu, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +61

We release the intermediate-width spectral window data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which covers SiO(2-1), SO(2_2-1_1), H13CO+(1-0)…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview

Steven N. Longmore, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes +95

The mass flows and energy cycles within the inner regions of galaxies exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the galaxy population. The centre of the Milky Way is the only…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO data

Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +64

The ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) large program has observed the inner ~ 200 pc of the Milky Way at 3 mm (Band 3) using ALMA's 12m, 7m, and Total Power arra…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) II: 3mm continuum images

Adam Ginsburg, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley T. Barnes +69

The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, h…

astro-ph.GA2025

ACES: The Magnetic Field in Large Filaments in the Galactic Center

Dylan M. Paré, Zi-Xuan Feng, Yue Hu +33

The Galactic Center (GC) is an extreme region of the Milky Way that is host to a complex set of thermal and non-thermal structures. In particular, the GC contains high-density gas…

astro-ph.GA2025

How is cold, star-forming gas in galaxies affected by magnetic fields?

Kamran R. J. Bogue, Rowan J. Smith, Robin G. Tress +9

Numerical simulations provide a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of the role of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of galaxies and in star formation. However…

astro-ph.GA2025

Rhea-RT: Dynamical impact of Central Molecular Zone conditions on the properties of the interstellar medium and stellar feedback coupling

R. G. Tress, N. Brucy, P. Girichidis +22

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is an extreme star formation environment, characterized by higher density, higher turbulence, stronger orbital shear, and stronger magnetic field s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Parallel Alignments between Magnetic Fields and Dense Structures in the Central Molecular Zone

Xing Pan, Qizhou Zhang, Keping Qiu +8

The recent Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large-Area Central Molecular Zone Exploration (FIREPLACE) survey with SOFIA has mapped plane-of-the-sky magnetic field orientations within the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The Noctua Suite of Simulations -- The Difficulty of Growing Massive Black Holes in Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies

Jonathan Petersson, Michaela Hirschmann, Robin G. Tress +6

Aims. We study the individual and cumulative impact of stellar feedback processes on massive black hole (MBH) growth in a simulated low-mass dwarf galaxy. Methods. A suite of high-…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Anisotropy in the carbon monoxide (CO) line emission across the Milky Way's disk

J. D. Soler, M. Heyer, M. Benedettini +11

We present a study of the CO(1-0) line emission anisotropy across the Milky Way's disk to examine the effect of stellar feedback and Galactic dynamics on the distribution of…

astro-ph.GA2025

Introducing the Rhea simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies I: Effect of gravitational potential on morphology and star formation

Junia Göller, Philipp Girichidis, Noé Brucy +11

The Milky Way is a complex ecosystem, for which we can obtain detailed observations probing the physical mechanisms determining the interstellar medium. For a detailed comparison w…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The dynamical impact of cosmic rays in the Rhea magnetohydrodynamics simulations

Karin Kjellgren, Philipp Girichidis, Junia Göoller +10

This study explores the dynamical impact of cosmic rays (CRs) in Milky Way-like galaxies using the Rhea simulation suite. Cosmic rays, with their substantial energy density, influe…

astro-ph.GA2024

3-D CMZ II: Hierarchical Structure Analysis of the Central Molecular Zone

Cara Battersby, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley Barnes +16

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is the way station at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, connecting gas flowing in from Galactic scales with the central nucleus. Key open question…

astro-ph.GA2024

3-D CMZ III: Constraining the 3-D structure of the Central Molecular Zone via molecular line emission and absorption

Daniel L. Walker, Cara Battersby, Dani Lipman +15

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is the largest concentration of dense molecular gas in the Galaxy, the structure of which is shaped by the complex interplay between Ga…