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astro-ph.GA2026

Sequential Star-Formation and the Near-Infrared Stellar Populations within N159

Nolan Habel, E. Sabbi, Peter Zeidler +19

We present the first results from a JWST/NIRCam study of the star-forming region N159, one of the richest H II complexes in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region stretches over $…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Stellar Population of NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud with JWST

J. Jaspers, P. Kavanagh, G. De Marchi +13

NGC 346 is a massive star-forming region located at a distance of 62 kpc, in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Due to its low metallicity (Z 1/5 Z), it is an…

astro-ph.GA2026

JWST NIRCam and MIRI Reveal the Dust-Producing AGB Population of NGC 6822

Conor Nally, Olivia C. Jones, Laura Lenkić +9

We present a photometric catalogue of the Local Group dwarf galaxy NGC 6822 based on deep JWST observations obtained with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrum…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Young Stellar Objects in the SMC Region NGC 346: JWST Detects Dust, Accretion, Ices and Outflows

Nolan Habel, Omnarayani Nayak, Patrick J. Kavanagh +13

We present mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of intermediate- to high-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) in the low-metallicity star-forming region NGC 346 located within the…

astro-ph.GA2025

First detection of ices in intermediate-mass young stellar objects beyond the Milky Way

Guido De Marchi, Nolan Habel, Margaret Meixner +15

Using NIRSpec on JWST, we studied a sample of 15 intermediate-mass (1.8-4.1 Msun) young stellar objects (YSOs) previously identified with MIRI photometry in the low-metallicity NGC…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST NIRCam Imaging of NGC 4258: I. Observation Overview

Travis C. Fischer, Nicholas F. Cothard, Omnarayani Nayak +3

We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam imaging of the nearby Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 4258, which hosts strong star formation regions as well as an anomalous jet-like ra…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Size-Linewidth Relation and Signatures of Feedback from Quiescent to Active Star Forming Regions in the LMC

Alex Green, Tony Wong, Remy Indebetouw +6

To investigate the effects of stellar feedback on the gravitational state of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), we study CO and CO ALMA maps of nine GMCs distributed thro…

astro-ph.GA2024

Imaging of I Zw 18 by JWST. I. Strategy and First Results of Dusty Stellar Populations

Alec S. Hirschauer, Nicolas Crouzet, Nolan Habel +16

We present a JWST imaging survey of I Zw 18, the archetypal extremely metal-poor, star-forming (SF), blue compact dwarf galaxy. With an oxygen abundance of only 3% $Z_{\odot}…

astro-ph.GA2023

JWST MIRI and NIRCam Unveil Previously Unseen Infrared Stellar Populations in NGC 6822

Conor Nally, Olivia C. Jones, Laura Lenkić +9

NGC 6822 is a nearby (~490 kpc) non-interacting low-metallicity (0.2 Zsolar) dwarf galaxy which hosts several prominent H ii regions, including sites of highly embedded active star…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The 30 Doradus Molecular Cloud at 0.4 pc Resolution with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array: Physical Properties and the Boundedness of CO-emitting Structures

Tony Wong, Luuk Oudshoorn, Eliyahu Sofovich +21

We present results of a wide-field (approximately 60 x 90 pc) ALMA mosaic of CO(2-1) and CO(2-1) emission from the molecular cloud associated with the 30 Doradus star-formin…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

An ALMA study of the massive molecular clump N159W-North in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A possible gas flow penetrating one of the most massive protocluster systems in the Local Group

Kazuki Tokuda, Taisei Minami, Yasuo Fukui +18

Massive dense clumps in the Large Magellanic Cloud can be an important laboratory to explore the formation of populous clusters. We report multiscale ALMA observations of the N159W…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

The stellar content of H72.97-69.39, a potential super star cluster in the making

M. Andersen, H. Zinnecker, A. S. Hirschauer +2

Young Massive Clusters (YMCs) and Super Star Clusters (SSCs) represent an extreme mode of star formation. Far-infrared imaging of the Magellanic Clouds has identified one potential…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 62 cited

Evolution of Stellar Feedback in HII Regions

Grace M. Olivier, Laura A. Lopez, Anna L. Rosen +4

Stellar feedback is needed to produce realistic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and galaxies in simulations, but due to limited numerical resolution, feedback must be implemented usi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

Radiative and mechanical feedback into the molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. II. 30 Doradus

Min-Young Lee, Suzanne Madden, Franck Le Petit +6

With an aim of probing the physical conditions and excitation mechanisms of warm molecular gas in individual star-forming regions, we performed Herschel SPIRE FTS observations of 3…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 12 cited

Formation of High-Mass stars in an isolated environment in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ryohei Harada, Toshikazu Onishi, Kazuki Tokuda +14

The aim of this study is to characterize the distribution and basic properties of the natal gas associated with high-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) in isolated environments in t…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 8 cited

Unveiling the nature of candidate high-mass young stellar objects in the Magellanic Clouds with near-IR spectroscopy

Megan Reiter, Omnarayani Nayak, Margaret Meixner +1

As nearby neighbors to the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) provide a unique opportunity to study star formation in the context of their galactic ecos…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 74 cited

An ALMA view of molecular filaments in the Large Magellanic Cloud II: An early stage of high-mass star formation embedded at colliding clouds in N159W-South

Kazuki Tokuda, Yasuo Fukui, Ryohei Harada +19

We have conducted ALMA CO isotopes and 1.3 mm continuum observations toward filamentary molecular clouds of the N159W-South region in the Large Magellanic Cloud with an angular res…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 64 cited

An ALMA view of molecular filaments in the Large Magellanic Cloud I: The formation of high-mass stars and pillars in the N159E-Papillon Nebula triggered by a cloud-cloud collision

Yasuo Fukui, Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuya Saigo +19

We present the ALMA observations of CO isotopes and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward the N159E-Papillon Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The spatial resolution is 0"25-0…

astro-ph.GA2017

The star-forming complex LMC-N79 as a future rival to 30 Doradus

Bram B. Ochsendorf, Hans Zinnecker, Omnarayani Nayak +5

Within the early Universe, `extreme' star formation may have been the norm rather than the exception. Super Star Clusters (SSCs; 10 M) are thought t…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 27 cited

Studying Relation Between Star Formation and Molecular Clumps on Subparsec Scales in 30 Doradus

Omnarayani Nayak, Margaret Meixner, Remy Indebetouw +4

We present and molecular gas data observed by ALMA, massive early stage young stellar objects identified by applying color-magnitude cuts to \…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 22 cited

Radiative and mechanical feedback into the molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. N159W

Min-Young Lee, Suzanne Madden, Vianney Lebouteiller +25

We present Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) observations of N159W, an active star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In our observations, a numb…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 51 cited

Kinematic Structure of Molecular Gas around High-mass Star YSO, Papillon Nebula, in N159 East in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Kazuya Saigo, Toshikazu Onishi, Omnarayani Nayak +20

We present the ALMA Band 3 and Band 6 results of 12CO(2-1), 13$CO(2-1), H30alpha recombination line, free-free emission around 98 GHz, and the dust thermal emission around 230 GHz…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 3 cited

High-mass star formation triggered by collision between CO filaments in N159 West in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Yasuo Fukui, Ryohei Harada, Kazuki Tokuda +20

We have carried out 13CO(J=2-1) observations of the active star-forming region N159 West in the LMC with ALMA. We have found that the CO distribution at a sub-pc scale is highly el…