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20152026
most citedThe lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

292 citations · 4k across the 92 of their papers we have counts for

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95 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

The Birth and Early Feedback of Massive Star Clusters Across the Local Universe

Jiayi Sun, Rebecca C. Levy, Cecilia Bacchini +11

Young massive star clusters (YMCs; ) represent a distinct, extreme mode of star formation and the closest present-day analogues of the environments in wh…

astro-ph.GA2026

Quantifying the decline in CO(2-1) intensity around PHANGS-HST star clusters: Constraints on molecular gas dispersal, stellar feedback, and cluster formation efficiency

Hao He, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +37

We combine the largest survey of star clusters in nearby galaxies to-date, PHANGS-HST, with maps of molecular gas maps from PHANGS-ALMA to constrain the efficiency of cluster forma…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Milky Way Joins the Extragalactic World: I. PHANGS

Neal J. Evans, Davide Elia, Jiayi Sun +2

Complete catalogs of molecular clouds in the Milky Way allow analysis of the molecular medium and the star formation properties of the Milky Way that closely follows the method use…

astro-ph.GA2026

Variations in the 3.3 m Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Feature Across Nearby Galaxies Driven by Metallicity and Radiation Field Spectrum

Hannah B. Koziol, Karin Sandstrom, Dalya Baron +29

We use JWST NIRCam imaging to investigate the 3.3 m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) feature in nearby galaxies. NIRCam observations of the 3.3 m feature are emerging as…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Multiwavelength Inventory for the Local Group L-band Survey I: Atlas and Radial Profiles of Local Group Galaxies

Cosima Eibensteiner, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun +21

Resolving atomic gas at pc physical resolution is currently feasible only for the very nearest galaxies. We combine 120 pc resolution HI data using the Karl G. Jansky…

astro-ph.GA2026

From gas to stars along the spiral wave: CO, HCN, and star formation variations across the spiral arms in NGC 4321 and M51

Minou Greve, Lukas Neumann, Mallory Thorp +17

Molecular clouds form stars from the interstellar medium via gravitational collapse, following a sequence from low-density gas to high-density cores and eventually the formation of…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Radial and Vertical Structure of Molecular Gas in the Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4565

Grace Krahm, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun +11

We present high-resolution (0.94" 55 pc) ALMA CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1) observations of the highly inclined (i~87.5 deg) galaxy NGC 4565 covering out to galactocentric radius…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Structure of Molecular Gas in PHANGS-ALMA Galaxies: Cloud Spacing, Two-Point Correlation and Stacked Intensity Profiles

Hao He, Adam Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +21

The sub-kpc scale gas structure encodes key information of giant molecular cloud (GMC) formation. Therefore, we aim for a quantitative description of molecular gas structure across…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the Sub-Galactic Relationship Between Star Formation and the Hot Interstellar Medium in NGC 4254

Erik B. Monson, Bret D. Lehmer, Amirnezam Amiri +17

We investigate the relationship between star formation and X-ray emission from the hot interstellar medium (ISM) on kpc scales in NGC 4254 (M99) by combining spatially resolv…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Molecular Gas Morphological Analogues for the Milky Way

Neal J. Evans, Davide Elia, Keith Hawkins +2

Complete catalogs of molecular clouds in the Milky Way allow analysis of the molecular medium and the star formation properties of the Milky Way that closely follows the method use…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

MAUVE: Cold neutral gas in the outflow of NGC 4383 and evidence for a fountain flow

L. Cortese, A. B. Watts, J. Sun +9

We present a multiphase study of the star-formation-driven outflow in the Virgo galaxy NGC 4383, combining ALMA CO(2-1) data with deep MeerKAT HI imaging and MUSE spectroscopy obta…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Molecular gas and star formation in central rings across nearby galaxies

Damian R. Gleis, Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer +20

Nearby galaxies exhibit a variety of structures, including central rings, similar to the MW Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). These rings are common in barred galaxies and can be gas-r…

astro-ph.GA2026

The impact of ram pressure on the radio spectral index and magnetic field of NGC 4522: A high-resolution VLA continuum study

Woorak Choi, Aeree Chung, Chang-Goo Kim +8

We present high-resolution Very Large Array (VLA) continuum observations at S-band ( GHz, pc scale) and X-band ( GHz, pc scale) of the ram-pressure-stripped Virg…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evolved Supergiants in PHANGS I: Red Supergiants in 19 Galaxies between 5-20 Mpc with HST and JWST

Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, David Thilker, Adam K. Leroy +17

Red supergiants (RSGs) are important for our understanding of supernova progenitors, stellar populations, stellar evolution, mass loss and dust production. Extragalactic surveys of…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE)

Barbara Catinella, Luca Cortese, Jiayi Sun +26

The Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE) project is a multi-facility programme exploring how dense environments transform galaxies. Combining a VLT/MUSE…

astro-ph.GA2025

Masses, Star-Formation Efficiencies, and Dynamical Evolution of 18,000 HII Regions

Debosmita Pathak, Adam K. Leroy, Ashley. T. Barnes +36

We present measurements of the masses associated with HII regions across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies by combining data from JWST, HST, MUSE, ALMA, VLA, and MeerKAT…

astro-ph.GA2025

Azimuthal offsets in spiral arms of nearby galaxies

Miguel Querejeta, Sharon E. Meidt, Yixian Cao +28

Spiral arms play a central role in disc galaxies, but their dynamical nature remains a long-standing open question. Azimuthal offsets between molecular gas and star formation are e…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The SWAN view of dense gas in the Whirlpool -- A cloud-scale comparison of N2H+, HCO+, HNC and HCN emission in M51

Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer, Antonio Usero +22

Tracing dense molecular gas, the fuel for star formation, is essential for the understanding of the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation processes. We compare the emiss…

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★ 5 cited

Duration and properties of the embedded phase of star formation in 37 nearby galaxies from PHANGS-JWST

Lise Ramambason, Mélanie Chevance, Jaeyeon Kim +32

Light reprocessed by dust grains emitting in the infrared allows the study of the physics at play in dusty, embedded regions, where ultraviolet and optical wavelengths are attenuat…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Local Group L-band Survey (LGLBS)

Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy, Erik W. Rosolowsky +45

We present the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS), a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) survey producing the highest quality 21-cm and 1-2 GHz radio continuum images to date for…

astro-ph.GA2025

Time-scales of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and dust continuum emission from gas clouds compared to molecular gas cloud lifetimes in PHANGS-JWST galaxies

Jaeyeon Kim, Mélanie Chevance, Lise Ramambason +24

Recent JWST mid-infrared (mid-IR) images, tracing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dust continuum emission, provide detailed views of the interstellar medium (ISM) in ne…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining resolved extragalactic variation with well calibrated ALMA observations

Jakob den Brok, Elias K. Oakes, Adam K. Leroy +13

CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) are commonly used as bulk molecular gas tracers. The CO line ratios (especially CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) - ) vary within and among galaxies, yet previous studies…