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astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: A Global and Moderately Resolved View of Mid-Infrared and CO Line Emission from Galaxies at the Start of the JWST Era

Adam K. Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Karin Sandstrom +41

We explore the relationship between mid-infrared (mid-IR) and CO rotational line emission from massive star-forming galaxies, which is one of the tightest scalings in the local uni…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse ISM with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies

Karin M. Sandstrom, Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy +43

JWST observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission provide some of the deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

CI and CO in Nearby Spiral Galaxies -- I. Line Ratio and Abundance Variations at ~ 200 pc Scales

Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Toshiki Saito +25

We present new neutral atomic carbon [CI](3P1-3P0) mapping observations within the inner ~7 kpc and ~4 kpc of the disks of NGC3627 and NGC4321 at a spatial resolution of 190 pc and…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Stellar Feedback-Driven Excitation and Dissociation of Molecular Gas in the Starburst Ring of NGC 1365?

Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Yixian Cao +36

We compare embedded young massive star clusters (YMCs) to (sub-)millimeter line observations tracing the excitation and dissociation of molecular gas in the starburst ring of NGC 1…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 40 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Rapid Evolution of Star Formation in the Central Molecular Gas Ring of NGC1365

Eva Schinnerer, Eric Emsellem, Jonathan D. Henshaw +36

Large-scale bars can fuel galaxy centers with molecular gas, often leading to the development of dense ring-like structures where intense star formation occurs, forming a very diff…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 32 cited

PHANGS--JWST First Results: ISM structure on the turbulent Jeans scale in four disk galaxies observed by JWST and ALMA

Sharon E. Meidt, Erik Rosolowsky, Jiayi Sun +31

JWST/MIRI imaging of the nearby galaxies IC 5332, NGC 628, NGC 1365 and NGC 7496 from PHANGS reveals a richness of gas structures that in each case form a quasi-regular network of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 131 cited

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

Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +74

The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference dataset for the multi-scale, multi-phase study of star formation and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. With the suc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Duration of the early phase of massive star formation in NGC628

Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +33

The earliest stages of star formation, when young stars are still deeply embedded in their natal clouds, represent a critical phase in the matter cycle between gas clouds and young…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 63 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Multi-wavelength view of feedback-driven bubbles (The Phantom Voids) across NGC 628

Ashley T. Barnes, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Sharon E. Meidt +51

We present a high-resolution view of bubbles within The Phantom Galaxy (NGC 628); a nearby (~10Mpc), star-forming (~2Msun/yr), face-on (i~9deg) grand-design spiral galaxy. With new…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 73 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: A statistical view on bubble evolution in NGC628

Elizabeth J. Watkins, Ashley Barnes, Kiana F. Henny +49

The first JWST observations of nearby galaxies have unveiled a rich population of bubbles that trace the stellar feedback mechanisms responsible for their creation. Studying these…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Dust embedded star clusters in NGC 7496 selected via 3.3 m PAH emission

Jimena Rodriguez, Janice Lee, Bradley Whitmore +38

The earliest stages of star formation occur enshrouded in dust and are not observable in the optical. Here we leverage the extraordinary new high-resolution infrared imaging from J…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Central concentration of warm and dense molecular gas in a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy at z=6

Akiyoshi Tsujita, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Kotaro Kohno +8

We report the detection of the CO(12-11) line emission toward G09-83808 (or H-ATLAS J090045.4+004125), a strongly-lensed submillimeter galaxy at , with Atacama Large Mill…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

AGN-driven Cold Gas Outflow of NGC 1068 Characterized by Dissociation-Sensitive Molecules

Toshiki Saito, Shuro Takano, Nanase Harada +11

Recent developments in (sub-)millimeter facilities have drastically changed the amount of information obtained from extragalactic spectral scans. In this paper, we present a featur…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 115 cited

Molecular Cloud Populations in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Environments: A Multiwavelength Perspective

Jiayi Sun, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +35

We present a rich, multiwavelength, multiscale database built around the PHANGS-ALMA CO(2-1) survey and ancillary data. We use this database to present the distributions of mol…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 76 cited

Environmental dependence of the molecular cloud lifecycle in 54 main sequence galaxies

Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +27

The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs; 100pc), play a major role in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Detection of extended millimeter emission in the host galaxy of 3C273 and its implications for QSO feedback via high dynamic range ALMA imaging

Shinya Komugi, Yoshiki Toba, Yoshiki Matsuoka +2

We estimate the amount of negative feedback energy injected into the ISM of the host galaxy of 3C273, a prototypical radio loud quasar. We obtained 93, 233 and 343 GHz continuum im…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Multi-wavelength and Multi-CO View of The Minor Merger Driven Star Formation in the Nearby LIRG NGC 3110

Yuka Kawana, Toshiki Saito, Sachiko K. Okumura +12

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of multiple CO(1-0), CO(1-0), and CO(1-0) lines and 2.9 mm and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

WISDOM Project -- X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure

Timothy A. Davis, Jindra Gensior, Martin Bureau +12

We use high-resolution maps of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM) in the centres of eighty-six nearby galaxies from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object M…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

The Kiloparsec-scale Neutral Atomic Carbon Outflow in the Nearby Type-2 Seyfert Galaxy NGC 1068: Evidence for Negative AGN Feedback

Toshiki Saito, Shuro Takano, Nanase Harada +13

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is postulated as a key mechanism for regulating star formation within galaxies. Studying the physical properties of the outflowing gas from A…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

Variations in the plane across galactic environments in PHANGS galaxies

I. Pessa, E. Schinnerer, A. Leroy +26

There exists some consensus that stellar mass surface density () and molecular gas mass surface density () are the main quantities responsible for locally setti…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

Detection of nitrogen and oxygen in a galaxy at the end of reionization

Ken-ichi Tadaki, Akiyoshi Tsujita, Yoichi Tamura +12

We present observations of [NII] 205 m, [OIII] 88 m and dust emission in a strongly-lensed, submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at , G09.83808, with the Atacama Large Millimete…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

Spatially-resolved relation between [CI] - and CO (1-0) in Arp 220

Junko Ueda, Tomonari Michiyama, Daisuke Iono +2

We present 0."3 (114 pc) resolution maps of [CI] - (hereafter [CI] (1-0)) and CO (1-0) obtained toward Arp 220 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

A CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirlpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS)

Jakob S. den Brok, Frank Bigiel, Kazimierz Sliwa +24

We present the CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS) based on an IRAM 30-m large programme which provides a benchmark study of numerous, faint CO iso…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

A 2-3 mm high-resolution molecular line survey towards the centre of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946

Cosima Eibensteiner, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel +30

The complex physical, kinematic, and chemical properties of galaxy centres make them interesting environments to examine with molecular line emission. We present new " (${\sim…