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From Scaling Relations to Physical Laws: Constraining the Physics of Star Formation Across Local Galaxies
Jakob den Brok, Cecilia Bacchini, Leindert A. Boogaard +21
The conversion of cold dense gas, traced by molecular line emission, into stars remains one of the fundamental unsolved problems in galaxy evolution. Observations over the past dec…
Molecular atlas of nearby galaxies through sensitive high-resolution multi-band molecular line surveys
Mathilde Bouvier, Erica Behrens, Laura Colzi +21
Star formation and associated feedback processes play a key role in galaxy evolution. Astrochemistry is a powerful tool for characterising the physical conditions of dense star-for…
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…
From Atomic Gas to Star Formation
Erik Rosolowsky, Eric Koch, Sambit Roychowdhury +9
Since the 2015 SKA Chapters, the advent of panchromatic observations of nearby galaxies, capable of resolving the interstellar medium (ISM) into individual star-forming regions and…
Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN). IV. Extent of active galactic nucleus feedback on the interstellar medium
Mallory D. Thorp, Antonio Usero, Frank Bigiel +19
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are intertwined with galaxy evolution, injecting energy into the interstellar medium (ISM) that could regulate star formation as a galaxy evolves. Howe…
Testing the Physical Parameter Constraining Power of HCN and HNC with Neural Networks
Erica Behrens, Jeffrey G. Mangum, Mathilde Bouvier +2
We quantify the utility of HCN and HNC to characterize gas conditions in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253. We use measurements from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Ar…
The Local Group L-band Survey: Probing Cold Atomic Gas in IC10 with Neutral Hydrogen Absorption
Ioana A. Stelea, Snezana Stanimirovic, Nickolas M. Pingel +20
We present the first localized detections of the cold neutral medium (CNM) in IC10, offering a rare view of dense atomic gas in a low-metallicity (0.27 solar metallicity) dwarf gal…
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…
Classifying Compact Radio Emission in Nearby Galaxies: a 10GHz Study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae, Anomalous Microwave Emission and Star Forming Regions
Kristen C. Dage, Eric W. Koch, Evangelia Tremou +19
We present 115 compact radio point sources in three galaxies, NGC 5474, NGC 4631 and M51, taken in the most extended (A-)configuration of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at 10G…
The SWAN view of dense gas in the Whirlpool -- A cloud-scale comparison of N2H+, HCO+, HNC and HCN emission in M51
Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer, Antonio Usero +22
Tracing dense molecular gas, the fuel for star formation, is essential for the understanding of the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation processes. We compare the emiss…
The Star Formation in Radio Survey: Adding 90 GHz Data to 3-33 GHz Observations of Star-forming Regions in Nearby Galaxies
Anna Dignan, Eric J. Murphy, Brian Mason +10
We present 90 GHz continuum imaging of 119 star-forming regions in 30 nearby galaxies observed with MUSTANG-2 on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope as part of the Star Formati…
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…
Searching for Compact Obscured Nuclei in Compton Thick AGN
Makoto A. Johnstone, George C. Privon, Loreto Barcos-Munoz +16
Compact Obscured Nuclei (CONs) are heavily obscured infrared cores that have been found in local (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs). They show bright emission from vibrati…
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…
Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN) II: Survey design and observations
K. Sophia Stuber, Jerome Pety, Antonio Usero +18
We present Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN), a high-resolution, high-sensitivity survey to map molecular lines in the 3mm band in M51 (the Whirlpool galaxy).…
Application of resolved low-J multi-CO line modeling with RADEX to constrain the molecular gas properties in the starburst M82
Valencia Zhang, Jakob den Brok, Qizhou Zhang +10
The distribution and physical conditions of molecular gas are closely linked to star formation and the subsequent evolution of galaxies. Emission from carbon monoxide (CO) and its…
Cloud-scale gas properties, depletion times, and star formation efficiency per free-fall time in PHANGS--ALMA
Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun, Sharon Meidt +31
We compare measurements of star formation efficiency to cloud-scale gas properties across PHANGS-ALMA. Dividing 67 galaxies into 1.5 kpc scale regions, we calculate the molecular g…
Dense gas scaling relations at kiloparsec scales across nearby galaxies with the ALMA ALMOND and IRAM 30m EMPIRE surveys
Lukas Neumann, Maria J. Jimenez-Donaire, Adam K. Leroy +17
Dense, cold gas is the key ingredient for star formation. Over the last two decades, HCN(1-0) emission has been utilised as the most accessible dense gas tracer to study external g…
The Arp 240 Galaxy Merger: A Detailed Look at the Molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt Star Formation Law on Sub-kpc Scales
Alejandro Saravia, Eduardo Rodas-Quito, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz +25
The molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (mK-S) Law has been key for understanding star formation (SF) in galaxies across all redshifts. However, recent sub-kpc observations of nearby galax…
CO isotopologue-derived molecular gas conditions and CO-to-H conversion factors in M51
Jakob den Brok, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Adam Leroy +24
Over the past decade, several millimeter interferometer programs have mapped the nearby star-forming galaxy M51 at a spatial resolution of pc. This study combines observ…
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…
Neural Network Constraints on the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate and Other Physical Conditions in NGC 253 with ALCHEMI Measurements of HCN and HNC
Erica Behrens, Jeffrey G. Mangum, Serena Viti +15
We use a neural network model and ALMA observations of HCN and HNC to constrain the physical conditions, most notably the cosmic-ray ionization rate (CRIR, zeta), in the Central Mo…
The Local Group L-Band Survey: The First Measurements of Localized Cold Neutral Medium Properties in the Low-Metallicity Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822
Nickolas M. Pingel, Hongxing Chen, Snežana Stanimirović +15
Measuring the properties of the cold neutral medium (CNM) in low-metallicity galaxies provides insight into heating and cooling mechanisms in early Universe-like environments. We r…
Neutral atomic and molecular gas dynamics in the nearby spiral galaxies NGC 1512, NGC 4535, and NGC 7496
Sebastian Laudage, Cosima Eibensteiner, Frank Bigiel +20
Neutral atomic gas (HI) effectively traces galactic dynamics across mid to large galactocentric radii. However, its limitations in observing small-scale changes within the central…