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most citedSimulating nearby disc galaxies on the main star formation sequence I. Bar formation and the building of the central gas reservoir

17 citations · 44 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Tracking the flow of interstellar gas across scales: from galaxies to star clusters

Ana Duarte-Cabral, Maxime Valeille-Manet, Mathilde Bouvier +30

While the baryon cycle of the interstellar medium - and its ability to form stars - plays a key role in galaxy evolution, unravelling the physical processes driving its evolution r…

astro-ph.GA2026

WISDOM Project -- XXVIII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass of the galaxy NGC 1387

Pandora Dominiak, Martin Bureau, Fu-Heng Liang +6

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ( arcsec or pc) Atacama Large Millim…

astro-ph.GA2026

WISDOM Project - XXVII. Giant molecular clouds of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1387: similarities with spiral galaxy clouds

Fu-Heng Liang, Martin Bureau, Lijie Liu +10

Molecular gas is crucial to understanding star formation and galaxy evolution, but the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) have rarely been studied. Here, w…

astro-ph.GA2026

Stellar-mass black holes on the millimetre fundamental plane of black hole accretion

Jacob S. Elford, Ilaria Ruffa, Timothy A. Davis +5

Recent work revealed the existence of a galaxy "millimetre fundamental plane of black hole accretion", a tight correlation between nuclear mm luminosity, intrinsic - keV…

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

Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN): III. CO/CO ratio variations across the M51 galaxy

Ina Galić, Mallory Thorp, Frank Bigiel +16

CO isotopologues are common tracers of the bulk molecular gas in extragalactic studies, providing insights into the physical and chemical conditions of the cold molecular gas, a re…

astro-ph.GA2025

WISDOM Project -- XXV. Improving the CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 1574 using high spatial resolution ALMA observations

Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa +5

We present a molecular gas dynamical supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurement in the nearby barred lenticular galaxy NGC 1574, using Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The Hierarchical Dynamical State of Molecular Gas from 3 to 300 pc in NGC 253

Elias K. Oakes, Christopher M. Faesi, Erik Rosolowsky +25

Understanding how the dynamical state of the interstellar medium (ISM) changes across spatial scales can provide important insights into how the gas is organized and ultimately col…

astro-ph.GA2025

WISDOM project -- XXIII. Star-formation efficiencies of eight early-type galaxies and bulges observed with SITELLE and ALMA

Anan Lu, Daryl Haggard, Martin Bureau +18

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to harbour dense spheroids of stars with scarce star formation (SF). Approximately a quarter of these galaxies have rich molecular gas reservoi…

astro-ph.GA2025

The resolved star-formation efficiency of early-type galaxies

Thomas G. Williams, Francesco Belfiore, Martin Bureau +19

Understanding how and why star formation varies between galaxies is fundamental to our comprehension of galaxy evolution. In particular, the star-formation efficiency (SFE; star-fo…

astro-ph.GA2025

The HASHTAG project II. Giant molecular cloud properties across the M31 disc

Yikai Deng, Zongnan Li, Zhiyuan Li +17

We present a study of giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using CO(3-2) data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in selected regions acro…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

WISDOM Project -- XXII. A 5% precision CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 383

Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa +8

We present a measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 383, based on Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observati…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

WISDOM project XX -- Strong shear tearing molecular clouds apart in NGC 524

Anan Lu, Daryl Haggard, Martin Bureau +17

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are known to harbour dense spheroids of stars but scarce star formation (SF). Approximately a quarter of these galaxies have rich molecular gas reservoir…

astro-ph.GA2024

WISDOM Project -- XXI. Giant molecular clouds in the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 613: a steep size -- linewidth relation

Woorak Choi, Martin Bureau, Lijie Liu +9

NGC~613 is a nearby barred spiral galaxy with a nuclear ring. Exploiting high spatial resolution ( pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array CO(1-0) obser…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

WISDOM Project -- XIX. Figures of merit for supermassive black hole mass measurements using molecular gas and/or megamaser kinematics

Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Mark D. Smith +7

The mass () of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be measured using spatially-resolved kinematics of the region where the SMBH dominates gravitationally. The most…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 17 cited

Simulating nearby disc galaxies on the main star formation sequence I. Bar formation and the building of the central gas reservoir

Pierrick Verwilghen, Eric Emsellem, Florent Renaud +14

Past studies have long emphasised the key role played by galactic stellar bars in the context of disc secular evolution, via the redistribution of gas and stars, the triggering of…

astro-ph.GA2024

WISDOM Project -- XXVI. Cross-checking supermassive black hole mass estimates from ALMA CO gas kinematics and SINFONI stellar kinematics in the galaxy NGC 4751

Pandora Dominiak, Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau +6

We present high angular resolution ( or pc) ALMA observations of the CO(3-2) line emission of the galaxy NGC 4751. The data provide evidence for the pres…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Quantitative analysis of the molecular gas morphology in nearby disk galaxies

Takashi Yamamoto, Daisuke Iono, Toshiki Saito +4

We present a quantitative and statistical analysis of the molecular gas morphology in 73 nearby galaxies using high spatial resolution CO ( = 2-1) data obtained from the Atacama…

astro-ph.GA2023

WISDOM Project -- XVI. The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs and active galactic nucleus fuelling

Jacob S. Elford, Timothy A. Davis, Ilaria Ruffa +8

We use high-resolution data from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) project to investigate the connection between circumnuclear gas reservoir…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

WISDOM project -- XVIII. Molecular gas distributions and kinematics of three megamaser galaxies

Fu-Heng Liang, Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau +11

The co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) underpins our understanding of galaxy evolution, but different methods to measure SMBH masses have only infrequent…