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20202026
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

DIGging into HII regions: the role of ionizing photon leakage and spectral hardening in coupling HII regions and diffuse ionized gas

Dalya Baron, Kathryn Kreckel, Gwen C. Rudie +15

The optical emission-line ratios of star-forming galaxies are broadly understood in the framework of photoionization, yet some systematic trends remain unexplained. Using 50--100 p…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the synergies of with MUSE spectroscopy in PHANGS H II regions

Eric Habjan, Kathryn Kreckel, Christopher Faesi +16

Spatially resolved maps of gas-phase metallicity provide key constraints on the chemical enrichment and mixing processes that drive galaxy evolution, but measurements based only on…

astro-ph.GA2026

A steep mass transition for bar-driven ISM structuring revealed by PHANGS-JWST

Eric Emsellem, Jessica Sutter, Ryan Chown +26

Galactic bars play a critical role in the secular evolution of their hosts by reorganising the ISM. We use a sample of 57 star-forming disc galaxies observed with JWST at 3 and 7.7…

astro-ph.GA2026

Uncovering the multi-scale structure of dust distribution in nearby galaxies

E. Tanchon, M. Boquien, J. Chastenet +18

High-resolution JWST-MIRI images now allow us to resolve in great detail the multi-scale nature of the emission in nearby star-forming galaxies, from compact star-forming regions t…

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

Localized Deviations from the CO-PAH Relation in PHANGS-JWST Galaxies: Faint PAH Emission or Elevated CO Emissivity?

Jaeyeon Kim, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom +25

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission is widely used to trace the distribution of molecular gas in the interstellar medium, exhibiting a tight correlation with CO(2-1) emi…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function

E. Congiu, F. Scheuermann, K. Kreckel +21

NGC 253, the Sculptor galaxy, is the southern, massive, star-forming disk galaxy closest to the Milky Way. In this work, we present a new 103-pointing MUSE mosaic of this galaxy co…

astro-ph.GA2025

Time-scales of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and dust continuum emission from gas clouds compared to molecular gas cloud lifetimes in PHANGS-JWST galaxies

Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, Lise Ramambason +24

Recent JWST mid-infrared (mid-IR) images, tracing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dust continuum emission, provide detailed views of the interstellar medium (ISM) in ne…

astro-ph.GA2025

Relationships between PAHs, Small Dust Grains, H, and HI in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies NGC 6822 and WLM Using JWST, ALMA, and the VLA

Ryan Chown, Adam K. Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto +27

We present 0.7-3.3 pc resolution mid-infrared (MIR) JWST images at 7.7 m (F770W) and 21 m (F2100W) covering the main star-forming regions of two of the closest star-forming l…

astro-ph.GA2025

PAH Feature Ratios Around Stellar Clusters and Associations in 19 Nearby Galaxies

Daniel A. Dale, Gabrielle B. Graham, Ashley T. Barnes +27

We present a comparison of observed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) feature ratios in 19 nearby galaxies with a grid of theoretical expectations for near- and mid-infrared du…

astro-ph.GA2024

PHANGS-ML: the universal relation between PAH band and optical line ratios across nearby star-forming galaxies

Dalya Baron, Karin Sandstrom, Jessica Sutter +22

The structure and chemistry of the dusty interstellar medium (ISM) are shaped by complex processes that depend on the local radiation field, gas composition, and dust grain propert…

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

The Fraction of Dust Mass in the Form of PAHs on 10-50 pc Scales in Nearby Galaxies

Jessica Sutter, Karin Sandstrom, Jérémy Chastenet +21

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a ubiquitous component of the interstellar medium (ISM) in z~0 massive, star-forming galaxies and play key roles in ISM energy balance,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

Discovery of 2200 new supernova remnants in 19 nearby star-forming galaxies with MUSE spectroscopy

Jing Li, K. Kreckel, S. Sarbadhicary +18

We present the largest extragalactic survey of supernova remnant (SNR) candidates in nearby star-forming galaxies using exquisite spectroscopic maps from MUSE. Supernova remnants e…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview

Niv Drory, Guillermo A. Blanc, Kathryn Kreckel +48

We present the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Local Volume Mapper (LVM). The LVM is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, and of a sample…

astro-ph.GA2024

H-alpha emission and HII regions at the locations of recent supernovae in nearby galaxies

Ness Mayker Chen, Adam K. Leroy, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary +22

We present a statistical analysis of the local, approximately 50-100 pc scale, H-alpha emission at the locations of recent (less than 125 years) supernovae (SNe) in nearby star-for…

astro-ph.GA2024

PHANGS-ML: dissecting multiphase gas and dust in nearby galaxies using machine learning

Dalya Baron, Karin M. Sandstrom, Erik Rosolowsky +25

The PHANGS survey uses ALMA, HST, VLT, and JWST to obtain an unprecedented high-resolution view of nearby galaxies, covering millions of spatially independent regions. The high dim…