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A sensitive, high-resolution, wide-field IRAM NOEMA CO(1-0) survey of the very nearby spiral galaxy IC 342
M. Querejeta, J. Pety, A. Schruba +31
We present a new wide-field 10.75 x 10.75 arcmin^2 (~11x11 kpc^2), high-resolution (theta = 3.6" ~ 60 pc) NOEMA CO(1-0) survey of the very nearby (d=3.45 Mpc) spiral galaxy IC 342.…
The ALMOND Survey: Molecular cloud properties and gas density tracers across 25 nearby spiral galaxies with ALMA
Lukas Neumann, Molly J. Gallagher, Frank Bigiel +28
We use new HCN(1-0) data from the ALMOND (ACA Large-sample Mapping Of Nearby galaxies in Dense gas) survey to trace the kpc-scale molecular gas density structure and CO(2-1) data f…
Multi-Scale Stellar Associations across the Star Formation Hierarchy in PHANGS-HST Nearby Galaxies: Methodology and Properties
Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, David A. Thilker +18
We develop a method to identify and determine the physical properties of stellar associations using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) NUV-U-B-V-I imaging of nearby galaxies from the PHA…
CI and CO in Nearby Spiral Galaxies -- I. Line Ratio and Abundance Variations at ~ 200 pc Scales
Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Toshiki Saito +25
We present new neutral atomic carbon [CI](3P1-3P0) mapping observations within the inner ~7 kpc and ~4 kpc of the disks of NGC3627 and NGC4321 at a spatial resolution of 190 pc and…
PDFchem: A new fast method to determine ISM properties and infer environmental parameters using probability distributions
Thomas G. Bisbas, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Chia-Yu Hu +1
Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) as a function of environmental parameters is of fundamental importance to understand the star-formatio…
PHANGS: Constraining Star Formation Timescales Using the Spatial Correlations of Star Clusters and Giant Molecular Clouds
Jordan A. Turner, Daniel A. Dale, James Lilly +22
In the hierarchical view of star formation, giant molecular gas clouds (GMCs) undergo fragmentation to form small-scale structures made up of stars and star clusters. Here we study…
Molecular Cloud Populations in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Environments: A Multiwavelength Perspective
Jiayi Sun, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +35
We present a rich, multiwavelength, multiscale database built around the PHANGS-ALMA CO(2-1) survey and ancillary data. We use this database to present the distributions of mol…
Environmental dependence of the molecular cloud lifecycle in 54 main sequence galaxies
Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +27
The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs; 100pc), play a major role in…
WISDOM Project -- X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure
Timothy A. Davis, Jindra Gensior, Martin Bureau +12
We use high-resolution maps of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM) in the centres of eighty-six nearby galaxies from the millimetre-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object M…
Variations in the plane across galactic environments in PHANGS galaxies
I. Pessa, E. Schinnerer, A. Leroy +26
There exists some consensus that stellar mass surface density () and molecular gas mass surface density () are the main quantities responsible for locally setti…
Stellar feedback in M83 as observed with MUSE -- I. Overview, an unprecedented view of the stellar and gas kinematics and evidence of outflowing gas
Lorenza Della Bruna, Angela Adamo, Philippe Amram +14
We present a large VLT/MUSE mosaic (3.8 x 3.8 kpc) of the nearby spiral galaxy M83, with a spatial resolution ~20 pc. We obtained the kinematics of the stars and ionised gas, and c…
A CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirlpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS)
Jakob S. den Brok, Frank Bigiel, Kazimierz Sliwa +24
We present the CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS) based on an IRAM 30-m large programme which provides a benchmark study of numerous, faint CO iso…
Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function distances for 19 galaxies observed by PHANGS-MUSE
Fabian Scheuermann, Kathryn Kreckel, Gagandeep S. Anand +15
We provide new planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) distances to 19 nearby spiral galaxies that were observed with VLT/MUSE by the PHANGS collaboration. Emission line ratios…
A 2-3 mm high-resolution molecular line survey towards the centre of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946
Cosima Eibensteiner, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel +30
The complex physical, kinematic, and chemical properties of galaxy centres make them interesting environments to examine with molecular line emission. We present new " (${\sim…
The Gas-Star Formation Cycle in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies II. Resolved Distributions of CO and H Emission for 49 PHANGS Galaxies
Hsi-An Pan, Eva Schinnerer, Annie Hughes +36
The relative distribution of molecular gas and star formation in galaxies gives insight into the physical processes and timescales of the cycle between gas and stars. In this work,…
Dependence of on metallicity, intensity, and spatial scale in a self-regulated interstellar medium
Chia-Yu Hu, Andreas Schruba, Amiel Sternberg +1
We study the CO(1-0)-to-H conversion factor () and the line ratio of CO(2-1)-to-CO(1-0) () across a wide range of metallicity ()…
Molecular Gas Properties and CO-to-H2 Conversion Factors in the Central Kiloparsec of NGC 3351
Yu-Hsuan Teng, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun +16
The CO-to-H conversion factor ($α_\rm{CO}$) is critical to studying molecular gas and star formation in galaxies. The value of $α_\rm{CO}$ has been found to vary within and bet…
PHANGS-MUSE: the HII region luminosity function of local star-forming galaxies
Francesco Santoro, Kathryn Kreckel, Francesco Belfiore +30
We use an unprecedented sample of about 23,000 HII regions detected at an average physical resolution of 67pc in the PHANGS-MUSE sample to study the extragalactic HII region Ha lum…
A tale of two DIGs: The relative role of HII regions and low-mass hot evolved stars in powering the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in PHANGS-MUSE galaxies
Francesco Belfiore, Francesco Santoro, Brent Groves +17
We use integral field spectroscopy from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, which resolves the ionised interstellar medium at pc resolution in 19 nearby spiral galaxies, to study th…
Investigating variations in the dust emissivity index in the Andromeda galaxy
G. Athikkat-Eknath, S. A. Eales, M. W. L. Smith +3
Over the past decade, studies of dust in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) have shown radial variations in the dust emissivity index (). Understanding the astrophysical reasons behind…
Comparing the pre-SNe feedback and environmental pressures for 6000 HII regions across 19 nearby spiral galaxies
A. T. Barnes, S. C. O. Glover, K. Kreckel +28
The feedback from young stars (i.e. pre-supernova) is thought to play a crucial role in molecular cloud destruction. In this paper, we assess the feedback mechanisms acting within…
Bright, Relatively Isolated Star Clusters in PHANGS-HST Galaxies: Aperture Corrections, Quantitative Morphologies, and Comparison with Synthetic Stellar Population Models
Sinan Deger, Janice C. Lee, Bradley C. Whitmore +14
Using PHANGS-HST NUV-U-B-V-I imaging of 17 nearby spiral galaxies, we study samples of star clusters and stellar associations, visually selected to be bright and relatively isolate…
The Two-Dimensional Metallicity Distribution and Mixing Scales of Nearby Galaxies
Thomas G. Williams, Kathryn Kreckel, Francesco Belfiore +25
Understanding the spatial distribution of metals within galaxies allows us to study the processes of chemical enrichment and mixing in the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work,…
The PHANGS-MUSE survey -- Probing the chemo-dynamical evolution of disc galaxies
Eric Emsellem, Eva Schinnerer, Francesco Santoro +45
We present the PHANGS-MUSE survey, a programme using the MUSE IFS at the ESO VLT to map 19 massive nearby (D < 20 Mpc) star-forming disc galaxi…