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most citedThe Mid-Infrared Spectrum of Star-Forming Galaxies: Global Properties of PAH Emission

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST Whirlpool Galaxy Treasury: Mid-Infrared Emission in M51 and its Relation to Gas Column and Star Formation

Mansi Padave, Karin M. Sandstrom, Daniel A. Dale +25

Using JWST/MIRI imaging of M51 in eight broadband filters, we investigate correlations of mid-infrared emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dust continuum with…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Nowhere Left to Hide: Uncovering All of the Massive Young Embedded Star Clusters in the Antennae with JWST

Rupali Chandar, Miranda Caputo, Paul Goudfrooij +15

The Antennae galaxies merger produces the brightest infrared emission of any galaxy within ~20 Mpc, mostly from intense star formation taking place in supergiant molecular cloud co…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Physical Conditions of the Ionized Superwind in NGC 253 with VLT/MUSE

Serena A. Cronin, Alberto D. Bolatto, Enrico Congiu +7

We present an analysis of the H-emitting ionized gas in the warm phase of the NGC 253 outflow using integral field spectroscopy from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Euclid: The potential of slitless infrared spectroscopy: A z=5.4 quasar and new ultracool dwarfs

E. Bañados, V. Le Brun, S. Belladitta +226

We demonstrate the potential of Euclid's slitless spectroscopy to discover high-redshift (z>5) quasars and their main photometric contaminant, ultracool dwarfs. Sensitive infrared…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Detection of Deuterated Hydrocarbon Nanoparticles in the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51

B. T. Draine, Karin Sandstrom, Daniel A. Dale +29

Deuteration of hydrocarbon material, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), has been proposed to account for the low gas-phase abundances of D in the interstellar mediu…

astro-ph.GA2025

An Investigation of Disk Thickness in M51 from H-alpha, Pa-alpha, and Mid-Infrared Power Spectra

Bruce G. Elmegreen, Daniela Calzetti, Angela Adamo +27

Power spectra (PS) of high-resolution images of M51 (NGC 5194) taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope have been examined for evidence of disk thic…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Evidence for a hot galactic halo around the Andromeda Galaxy using fast radio bursts along two sightlines

Reshma Anna-Thomas, Casey J. Law, Eric W. Koch +17

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients that serve as unique probes of ionized extragalactic matter. We report the discovery and localization of two FRBs…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALESS-JWST: Joint (sub-)kiloparsec JWST and ALMA imaging of submillimeter galaxies reveals heavily obscured bulge formation events

Jacqueline A. Hodge, Elisabete da Cunha, Sarah Kendrew +25

We present JWST NIRCam imaging targeting 13 infrared-luminous () galaxies from the ALESS survey with uniquely deep, high-resolution…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Comparative Study of the Ground State Transitions of CO and [C I] as Molecular Gas Tracers at High Redshift

Marta Frias Castillo, Matus Rybak, Jacqueline A. Hodge +22

The CO(1--0) and [\ion{C}{1}](1--0) emission lines are well-established tracers of cold molecular gas mass in local galaxies. At high redshift, where the interstellar medium (ISM)…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 642 cited

PHIBSS: Unified Scaling Relations of Gas Depletion Time and Molecular Gas Fractions

L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel, A. Saintonge +32

This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations (Genzel et al.2015) between galaxy integrated molecular gas masses, stellar masses and star formation rates, in the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 162 cited

ALMA spectroscopic survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Continuum number counts, resolved 1.2-mm extragalactic background, and properties of the faintest dusty star forming galaxies

M. Aravena, R. Decarli, F. Walter +31

We present an analysis of a deep (1=13 Jy) cosmological 1.2-mm continuum map based on ASPECS, the ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. In the 1 arcmin$^2…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 35 cited

Comparing [CII], HI, and CO dynamics of nearby galaxies

W. J. G. de Blok, F. Walter, J. -D. T Smith +12

The HI and CO components of the interstellar medium (ISM) are usually used to derive the dynamical mass M_dyn of nearby galaxies. Both components become too faint to be used as a t…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 38 cited

The Impact of Molecular Gas on Mass Models of Nearby Galaxies

Bradley S. Frank, W. J. G. de Blok, F. Walter +2

We present CO velocity fields and rotation curves for a sample of nearby galaxies, based on data from the HERACLES survey. We combine our data with literature THINGS, SINGS and KIN…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 31 cited

The Survey of Lines in M31 (SLIM): Investigating the Origins of [CII] Emission

M. J. Kapala, K. Sandstrom, B. Groves +7

The [CII] 158 micron line is one of the strongest emission lines observed in star-forming galaxies, and has been empirically measured to correlate with the star formation rate (SFR…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 24 cited

A far-IR view of the starburst driven superwind in NGC 2146

K. Kreckel, L. Armus, B. Groves +19

NGC 2146, a nearby luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG), presents evidence for outflows along the disk minor axis in all gas phases (ionized, neutral atomic and molecular). We present a…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 44 cited

Towards A Removal of Temperature Dependencies from Abundance Determinations

Kevin V. Croxall, J. D. Smith, B. R. Brandl +16

The metal content of a galaxy is a key property for distinguishing between viable galaxy evolutionary scenarios, and it strongly influences many of the physical processes in the in…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 149 cited

Evidence for CO shock excitation in NGC 6240 from Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy

R. Meijerink, L. E. Kristensen, A. Weiss +28

We present Herschel SPIRE FTS spectroscopy of the nearby luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240. In total 20 lines are detected, including CO J=4-3 through J=13-12, 6 H2O rotational lin…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 545 cited

The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star Forming Galaxies Since z=2 as Probed by Their Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions

Georgios E. Magdis, E. Daddi, M. Bethermin +11

Using data from the mid-infrared to millimeter wavelengths for individual galaxies and for stacked ensembles at 0.5<z<2, we derive robust estimates of dust masses (Mdust) for main…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 125 cited

Modeling Dust and Starlight in Galaxies Observed by Spitzer and Herschel: NGC 628 and NGC 6946

G. Aniano, B. T. Draine, D. Calzetti +26

We characterize the dust in NGC628 and NGC6946, two nearby spiral galaxies in the KINGFISH sample. With data from 3.6um to 500um, dust models are strongly constrained. Using the Dr…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 62 cited

Deep observations of CO line emission from star-forming galaxies in a cluster candidate at z=1.5

M. Aravena, C. L. Carilli, M. Salvato +20

We report results from a deep Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) search for CO 1-0 line emission from galaxies in a candidate galaxy cluster at z~1.55 in the COSMOS field. We target 4…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited

Cool Dust in the Outer Ring of NGC 1291

J. L. Hinz, C. W. Engelbracht, R. Skibba +18

We examine Herschel Space Observatory images of one nearby prototypical outer ring galaxy, NGC 1291, and show that the ring becomes more prominent at wavelengths longer than 160um.…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 40 cited

A Study of Heating and Cooling of the ISM in NGC 1097 with Herschel-PACS and Spitzer-IRS

P. Beirao, L. Armus, G. Helou +38

NGC 1097 is a nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy with a bright circumnuclear starburst ring, a strong large-scale bar and an active nucleus. We present a detailed study of the spatial variati…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 380 cited

The Calibration of Monochromatic Far-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

D. Calzetti, S. -Y. Wu, S. Hong +23

(Abridged) Spitzer data at 24, 70, and 160 micron and ground-based H-alpha images are analyzed for a sample of 189 nearby star-forming and starburst galaxies to investigate whether…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 58 cited

First redshift determination of an optically/UV faint submillimeter galaxy using CO emission lines

A. Weiss, R. J. Ivison, D. Downes +3

We report the redshift of a distant, highly obscured submm galaxy (SMG), based entirely on the detection of its CO line emission. We have used the newly commissioned Eight-MIxer Re…