2 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
The impact of spiral arms on the star formation life cycle
Andrea Romanelli, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +18
The matter cycle between gas clouds and stars in galaxies plays a crucial role in regulating galaxy evolution through feedback mechanisms. In turn, the local and global galactic en…
astro-ph.GA2024
Death of the Immortal Molecular Cloud: Resolution Dependence of the Gas-Star Formation Relation Rules out Decoupling by Stellar Drift
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Mélanie Chevance, Steven N. Longmore +3
Recent observations have demonstrated that giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are short-lived entities, surviving for the order of a dynamical time before turning a few percent of their…