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

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Origin of the IRAS Vela Shell: New Insights from 3D Dust Mapping

Bore Annie Gao, Catherine Zucker, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan +15

The IRAS Vela Shell (IVS) is a structure of enhanced FIR emission located towards the Gum Nebula, a prominent region of emission in the local Milky Way shaped by various g…

astro-ph.GA2024

Do stars still form in molecular gas within CO-dark dwarf galaxies?

David J. Whitworth, Rowan J. Smith, Simon C. O. Glover +6

In the Milky Way and other main-sequence galaxies, stars form exclusively in molecular gas, which is traced by CO emission. However, low metallicity dwarf galaxies are often `CO-da…

astro-ph.GA2024

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and CO(2-1) Emission at 50-150 pc Scales in 70 Nearby Galaxies

Ryan Chown, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom +44

Combining Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(2-1) mapping and JWST near- and mid-infrared imaging, we characterize the relationship between CO(2-1) and polycyclic aro…

astro-ph.GA2024

McFine: python-based Monte-Carlo multi-component hyperfine structure fitting

Thomas G. Williams, Elizabeth J. Watkins

Modelling complex line emission in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a degenerate, high-dimensional problem. Here, we present McFine, a tool for automated multi-component fitting of…

astro-ph.GA2024

Evolutionary growth of molecular clouds as traced by their infrared bright fraction

E. J. Watkins, N. Peretto, A. J. Rigby +3

Understanding how stars form, evolve and impact molecular clouds is key to understanding why star formation is such an inefficient process globally. In this paper, we use the infra…