4 papers
The Multi-phase HI of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, J. R. Dawson, Narendra Nath Patra +30
Atomic hydrogen (HI) is the dominant baryonic component of the interstellar medium (ISM) in Milky Way-like galaxies and the reservoir from which molecular clouds and stars ultimate…
The first detection of dense gas in a massive main-sequence galaxy at cosmic noon
Jianhang Chen, Natascha M. Förster Schreiber, Rodrigo Herrera Camus +18
Dense gas is the direct fuel for star formation, but measuring it has long been difficult at z>2, especially in typical star-forming main-sequence galaxies. In this work, we report…
A Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud in the Local Bubble Revealed via H Fluorescence
Blakesley Burkhart, Thavisha E. Dharmawardena, Shmuel Bialy +20
A longstanding prediction in interstellar theory posits that significant quantities of molecular gas, crucial for star formation, may be undetected due to being ``dark" in commonly…
The Molecular Cloud Lifecycle I: Constraining H2 formation and dissociation rates with observations
Shmuel Bialy, Blakesley Burkhart, Daniel Seifried +9
Molecular clouds (MCs) are the birthplaces of new stars in galaxies. A key component of MCs are photodissociation regions (PDRs), where far-ultraviolet radiation plays a crucial ro…