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most citedThe lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: Key science drivers

Joanna Ramasawmy, Pamela D. Klaassen, Claudia Cicone +11

The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) is a concept for a 50m class single-dish telescope that will provide high sensitivity, fast mapping of the (sub-)millime…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

The Gas-Star Formation Cycle in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies II. Resolved Distributions of CO and H Emission for 49 PHANGS Galaxies

Hsi-An Pan, Eva Schinnerer, Annie Hughes +36

The relative distribution of molecular gas and star formation in galaxies gives insight into the physical processes and timescales of the cycle between gas and stars. In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 52 cited

Molecular Gas Properties and CO-to-H2 Conversion Factors in the Central Kiloparsec of NGC 3351

Yu-Hsuan Teng, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun +16

The CO-to-H conversion factor ($α_\rm{CO}$) is critical to studying molecular gas and star formation in galaxies. The value of $α_\rm{CO}$ has been found to vary within and bet…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

A census of optically dark massive galaxies in the early Universe from magnification by lensing galaxy clusters

Xinwen Shu, Lei Yang, Daizhong Liu +10

We present ALMA 870um and JCMT SCUBA2 850um dust continuum observations of a sample of optically dark and strongly lensed galaxies in the cluster fields. The ALMA and SCUBA2 observ…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 50 cited

The Two-Dimensional Metallicity Distribution and Mixing Scales of Nearby Galaxies

Thomas G. Williams, Kathryn Kreckel, Francesco Belfiore +25

Understanding the spatial distribution of metals within galaxies allows us to study the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing in the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work,…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 263 cited

The PHANGS-MUSE survey -- Probing the chemo-dynamical evolution of disc galaxies

Eric Emsellem, Eva Schinnerer, Francesco Santoro +45

We present the PHANGS-MUSE survey, a programme using the MUSE IFS at the ESO VLT to map 19 massive nearby (D < 20 Mpc) star-forming disc galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 113 cited

Low-J CO Line Ratios From Single Dish CO Mapping Surveys and PHANGS-ALMA

Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky, Antonio Usero +32

We measure the low-J CO line ratio R21=CO(2-1)/CO(1-0), R32=CO(3-2)/CO(2-1), and R31 = CO(3-2)/CO(1-0) using whole-disk CO maps of nearby galaxies. We draw CO(2-1) from PHANGS--ALM…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 43 cited

The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies, as traced by

Vasily Kokorev, Georgios Magdis, Iary Davidzon +13

We analyse the far-infrared properties of 5,000 star-forming galaxies at , drawn from the deepest, super-deblended catalogues in the GOODS-N and COSMOS fields. We dev…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

The effect of active galactic nuclei on the cold interstellar medium in distant star-forming galaxies

Francesco Valentino, Emanuele Daddi, Annagrazia Puglisi +17

In the framework of a systematic ALMA study of IR-selected main-sequence and starburst galaxies at z~1-1.7 at typical ~1" resolution, we report on the effects of mid-IR- and X-ray-…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer, Annie Hughes +69

We present PHANGS-ALMA, the first survey to map CO J=2-1 line emission at ~1" ~ 100pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d<~20 Mpc) galaxies that lie on…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 188 cited

PHANGS-ALMA Data Processing and Pipeline

Adam K. Leroy, Annie Hughes, Daizhong Liu +65

We describe the processing of the PHANGS-ALMA survey and present the PHANGS-ALMA pipeline, a public software package that processes calibrated interferometric and total power data…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

The organization of cloud-scale gas density structure: high resolution CO vs. 3.6 m brightness contrasts in nearby galaxies

Sharon E. Meidt, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta +29

In this paper we examine the factors that shape the distribution of molecular gas surface densities on the 150 pc scale across 67 morphologically diverse star-forming galaxies in t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 43 cited

Sub-millimetre compactness as a critical dimension to understand the Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies

Annagrazia Puglisi, Emanuele Daddi, Francesco Valentino +11

We study the interstellar medium (ISM) properties as a function of the molecular gas size for 77 infrared-selected galaxies at . Molecular gas sizes are measured on ALM…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

CO excitation, molecular gas density and interstellar radiation field in local and high-redshift galaxies

Daizhong Liu, Emanuele Daddi, Eva Schinnerer +9

We study the Carbon Monoxide (CO) excitation, mean molecular gas density and interstellar radiation field (ISRF) intensity in a comprehensive sample of 76 galaxies from local to hi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 154 cited

Giant Molecular Cloud Catalogues for PHANGS-ALMA: Methods and Initial Results

Erik Rosolowsky, Annie Hughes, Adam K. Leroy +26

We present improved methods for segmenting CO emission from galaxies into individual molecular clouds, providing an update to the CPROPS algorithms presented by Rosolowsky & Leroy…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy at redshift 1.4

Annagrazia Puglisi, Emanuele Daddi, Marcella Brusa +12

Feedback-driven winds from star formation or active galactic nuclei might be a relevant channel for the abrupt quenching star formation in massive galaxies. However, both observati…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 133 cited

The PHANGS-HST Survey: Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS with the Hubble Space Telescope

Janice C. Lee, Bradley C. Whitmore, David A. Thilker +51

The PHANGS program is building the first dataset to enable the multi-phase, multi-scale study of star formation across the nearby spiral galaxy population. This effort is enabled b…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Pre-supernova feedback mechanisms drive the destruction of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Mark R. Krumholz +28

It is a major open question which physical processes stop the accretion of gas onto giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and limit the efficiency at which gas is converted into stars with…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 72 cited

Measuring the mixing scale of the ISM within nearby spiral galaxies

Kathryn Kreckel, I-Ting Ho, Guillermo A. Blanc +28

The spatial distribution of metals reflects, and can be used to constrain, the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing. Using PHANGS-MUSE optical integral field spectroscopy, w…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 153 cited

Molecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales Across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population

Jiayi Sun, Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer +34

Using the PHANGS-ALMA CO (2-1) survey, we characterize molecular gas properties on 100 pc scales across 102,778 independent sightlines in 70 nearby galaxies. This yields th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

A Comparison of the Stellar, CO and Dust-Continuum Emission from Three, Star-Forming HUDF Galaxies at

Melanie Kaasinen, Fabian Walter, Mladen Novak +17

We compare the extent of the dust, molecular gas and stars in three star-forming galaxies, at and , selected from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field based on their brig…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 140 cited

The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project: Evolution of specific star formation rates out to

Sarah Leslie, Eva Schinnerer, Daizhong Liu +17

We provide a coherent, uniform measurement of the evolution of the logarithmic star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass () relation, called the main sequence of star-forming g…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 64 cited

CO emission in distant galaxies on and above the main sequence

Francesco Valentino, Emanuele Daddi, Annagrazia Puglisi +17

We present the detection of multiple CO line transitions with ALMA in a few tens of infrared-selected galaxies on and above the main sequence at z=1.1-1.7. We reliably detected the…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 156 cited

PHANGS CO kinematics: disk orientations and rotation curves at 150 pc resolution

Philipp Lang, Sharon E. Meidt, Erik Rosolowsky +24

We present kinematic orientations and high resolution (150 pc) rotation curves for 67 main sequence star-forming galaxies surveyed in CO (2-1) emission by PHANGS-ALMA. Our measurem…