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

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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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Reconciling extragalactic star formation efficiencies with theory: insights from PHANGS

Sharon E. Meidt, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen +22

New extragalactic measurements of the cloud population-averaged star formation (SF) efficiency per freefall time from PHANGS show little sign of theoretically predi…

astro-ph.GA2025

The impact of spiral arms on the star formation life cycle

Andrea Romanelli, Mélanie Chevance, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen +18

The matter cycle between gas clouds and stars in galaxies plays a crucial role in regulating galaxy evolution through feedback mechanisms. In turn, the local and global galactic en…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 13 cited

Linking stellar populations to HII regions across nearby galaxies. II. Infrared Reprocessed and UV Direct Radiation Pressure in HII Regions

Debosmita Pathak, Adam Leroy, Todd Thompson +27

Radiation pressure is a key mechanism by which stellar feedback disrupts molecular clouds and drives HII region expansion. This includes direct radiation pressure exerted by UV pho…

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…