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Star Cluster Populations in 38 Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Near-Universal Mass and Age Distributions from PHANGS
Rupali Chandar, Matthew R. Floyd, David A. Thilker +23
We present the largest study to date of star cluster mass and age distributions in nearby galaxies. The analysis is based on a uniformly selected catalog of over 15,000 (36,000) hu…
Quantifying the decline in CO(2-1) intensity around PHANGS-HST star clusters: Constraints on molecular gas dispersal, stellar feedback, and cluster formation efficiency
Hao He, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +37
We combine the largest survey of star clusters in nearby galaxies to-date, PHANGS-HST, with maps of molecular gas maps from PHANGS-ALMA to constrain the efficiency of cluster forma…
Mid-Infrared Colors Vary with Galactic Environment: Contrasting Star-Forming Disks, Young Centers, and Quiescent Star-Formation Deserts
Debosmita Pathak, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +27
We present pc-resolution JWST/MIRI and NIRCam measurements of mid-infrared (mid-IR) color variations in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) of 71 nearby star-forming…
Variations in the 3.3 m Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Feature Across Nearby Galaxies Driven by Metallicity and Radiation Field Spectrum
Hannah B. Koziol, Karin Sandstrom, Dalya Baron +29
We use JWST NIRCam imaging to investigate the 3.3 m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) feature in nearby galaxies. NIRCam observations of the 3.3 m feature are emerging as…
A Multiwavelength Inventory for the Local Group L-band Survey I: Atlas and Radial Profiles of Local Group Galaxies
Cosima Eibensteiner, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun +21
Resolving atomic gas at pc physical resolution is currently feasible only for the very nearest galaxies. We combine 120 pc resolution HI data using the Karl G. Jansky…
Connecting Stellar Population Surveys to Stellar Evolution with Delay-time Distributions: Application to LMC Classical Cepheids
Sumit K. Sarbadhicary
The progenitors of many stellar-origin phenomena such as supernovae, evolved giants and supergiants, planetary nebulae, AGB stars and other post-main-sequence exotica remain poorly…
Dust-Embedded Star Formation: Bridging Magellanic Cloud Studies of Massive Young Stellar Objects to Nearby Spiral Galaxies
M. Jimena Rodríguez, Rémy Indebetouw, Janice C. Lee +13
We use JWST NIRCam and MIRI imaging at 2, 4, 10, and 21 um to study young, dusty compact sources in four nearby galaxies at distances of ~ 1-5Mpc (M33, NGC300, NGC7793, and NGC5068…
The Structure of Molecular Gas in PHANGS-ALMA Galaxies: Cloud Spacing, Two-Point Correlation and Stacked Intensity Profiles
Hao He, Adam Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +21
The sub-kpc scale gas structure encodes key information of giant molecular cloud (GMC) formation. Therefore, we aim for a quantitative description of molecular gas structure across…
Constraining the Sub-Galactic Relationship Between Star Formation and the Hot Interstellar Medium in NGC 4254
Erik B. Monson, Bret D. Lehmer, Amirnezam Amiri +17
We investigate the relationship between star formation and X-ray emission from the hot interstellar medium (ISM) on kpc scales in NGC 4254 (M99) by combining spatially resolv…
Evolved Supergiants in PHANGS I: Red Supergiants in 19 Galaxies between 5-20 Mpc with HST and JWST
Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, David Thilker, Adam K. Leroy +17
Red supergiants (RSGs) are important for our understanding of supernova progenitors, stellar populations, stellar evolution, mass loss and dust production. Extragalactic surveys of…
SDSS-V LVM: Resolving Physical Conditions in the Trifid Nebula
Natascha Sattler, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Kathryn Kreckel +18
The chemical abundance of the interstellar medium sets the initial conditions for star formation and provides a probe of chemical galaxy evolution models. However, unresolved inhom…
Ashes of Creation: JWST Uncovers Silicate Dust in Massive Star Clusters
Daniel Maschmann, Bradley C. Whitmore, David A. Thilker +35
Dust production is a fundamental aspect of the baryonic cycle of star formation. It is known that dust is injected into the interstellar medium during early star formation by super…
PHANGS-JWST: the largest extragalactic molecular cloud catalog traced by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission
Z. Bazzi, D. Colombo, F. Bigiel +25
High-resolution JWST images of nearby spiral galaxies reveal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission structures that trace molecular gas, including CO-dark regions. We ident…
Resolved HII regions in NGC 253: Ionized gas structure and suggestions of a universal density-surface brightness relation
Rebecca L. McClain, Adam K. Leroy, Enrico Congiu +23
We use the full-disk VLT-MUSE mosaic of NGC 253 to identify 2492 HII regions and study their resolved structure. With an average physical resolution of 17 pc, this is one of the la…
The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue
A. T. Barnes, R. Chandar, K. Kreckel +38
We present the PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha nebulae catalogue, comprising 5177 spatially resolved nebulae across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies (< 20 Mpc), based on high-resolution Halp…
Masses, Star-Formation Efficiencies, and Dynamical Evolution of 18,000 HII Regions
Debosmita Pathak, Adam K. Leroy, Ashley. T. Barnes +36
We present measurements of the masses associated with HII regions across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies by combining data from JWST, HST, MUSE, ALMA, VLA, and MeerKAT…
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons destruction in star-forming regions across 42 nearby galaxies
Oleg V. Egorov, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom +30
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widespread in the interstellar medium (ISM) of Solar metallicity galaxies, where they play a critical role in ISM heating, cooling, and…
Characterization of Two Cool Galaxy Outflow Candidates Using Mid-Infrared Emission from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Jessica Sutter, Karin Sandstrom, Ryan Chown +22
We characterize two candidate cool galactic outflows in two relatively low mass, highly inclined Virgo cluster galaxies: NGC4424 and NGC4694. Previous analyses of observations usin…
SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Revealing the Structure of the Rosette Nebula
Mónica A. Villa-Durango, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga +19
The Rosette Nebula is a well-known H II region shaped by the interaction of gas with the OB stars of the NGC 2244 stellar association. Located within the remnant of a giant molecul…
The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
Hamid Hassani, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy +28
We present a multiwavelength catalog of mid-infrared-selected compact sources in 19 nearby galaxies, combining JWST NIRCam/MIRI, HST UV-optical broadband, H narrow-band, and ALM…
SDSS-V LVM: Collisionless Shocks in the Supernova Remnant RCW86
Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Knox S. Long, John C. Raymond +19
The supernova remnant (SNR) RCW86 is among the few SNRs with Balmer-emission lines containing broad and narrow spectral components that trace fast, non-radiative shocks in partiall…
The Hierarchical Dynamical State of Molecular Gas from 3 to 300 pc in NGC 253
Elias K. Oakes, Christopher M. Faesi, Erik Rosolowsky +25
Understanding how the dynamical state of the interstellar medium (ISM) changes across spatial scales can provide important insights into how the gas is organized and ultimately col…
Duration and properties of the embedded phase of star formation in 37 nearby galaxies from PHANGS-JWST
Lise Ramambason, Mélanie Chevance, Jaeyeon Kim +32
Light reprocessed by dust grains emitting in the infrared allows the study of the physics at play in dusty, embedded regions, where ultraviolet and optical wavelengths are attenuat…
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Local Group L-band Survey (LGLBS)
Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy, Erik W. Rosolowsky +45
We present the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS), a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) survey producing the highest quality 21-cm and 1-2 GHz radio continuum images to date for…