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The fragmentation properties of massive star-forming regions in 30Dor-10 at 2000 au resolution
A. Traficante, M. J. Jimenez-Donaire, R. Indebetouw +9
The fragmentation properties of parsec-scales clumps play a fundamental role in shaping the dense gas condensations known as cores, the immediate progenitor of stars. The distribut…
Clumpy, dense gas in the outflow of NGC 1266
Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +23
Outflows are one of the most spectacular mechanisms through which active galactic nuclei (AGN) impact their host galaxy, though the role of AGN-driven outflows in global star forma…
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…
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…
VERTICO IX: Signatures of environmental processing of the gas in Virgo cluster spiral galaxies through mapping of CO isotopologues
Timothy A. Davis, Toby Brown, Maria J. Jimenez-Donaire +12
In this work we study CO isotopologue emission in the largest cluster galaxy sample to date: 48 VERTICO spiral galaxies in Virgo. We show for the first time in a significant sample…
Low redshift post-starburst galaxies host abundant HI reservoirs
Sara L. Ellison, Qifeng Huang, Dong Yang +8
Studying the gas content of post-starburst (PSB) galaxies can provide valuable clues regarding the process of fast quenching. Although previous works have studied the molecular gas…
Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN) II: Survey design and observations
K. Sophia Stuber, Jerome Pety, Antonio Usero +18
We present Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN), a high-resolution, high-sensitivity survey to map molecular lines in the 3mm band in M51 (the Whirlpool galaxy).…
Application of resolved low-J multi-CO line modeling with RADEX to constrain the molecular gas properties in the starburst M82
Valencia Zhang, Jakob den Brok, Qizhou Zhang +10
The distribution and physical conditions of molecular gas are closely linked to star formation and the subsequent evolution of galaxies. Emission from carbon monoxide (CO) and its…
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…
CO isotopologue-derived molecular gas conditions and CO-to-H conversion factors in M51
Jakob den Brok, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Adam Leroy +24
Over the past decade, several millimeter interferometer programs have mapped the nearby star-forming galaxy M51 at a spatial resolution of pc. This study combines observ…
PHANGS-MeerKAT and MHONGOOSE HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies: physical drivers of the molecular gas fraction,
Cosima Eibensteiner, Jiayi Sun, Frank Bigiel +36
The molecular-to-atomic gas ratio is crucial to the evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies. We investigate the balance between the atomic () and molecular gas…
The properties and kinematics of HCN emission across the closest starburst galaxy NGC 253 observed with ALMA
Ivana Beslic, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel +21
Studying molecular gas in nearby galaxies using hydrogen cyanide (HCN) as a tracer for higher densities than CO emission still poses a significant challenge. Even though several ga…
The ALMaQUEST Survey XII: Dense Molecular Gas as traced by HCN and HCO in Green Valley Galaxies
Lihwai Lin, Hsi-An Pan, Sara L. Ellison +11
We present ALMA observations of two dense gas tracers, HCN(1-0) and HCO(1-0), for three galaxies in the green valley and two galaxies on the star-forming main sequence with c…
JWST Observations of Starbursts: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission at the Base of the M 82 Galactic Wind
Alberto D. Bolatto, Rebecca C. Levy, Elizabeth Tarantino +37
We present new observations of the central 1 kpc of the M 82 starburst obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) near-infrared camera (NIRCam) instrument at a resolution…
Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation Timeline Unveiled by ALMA, HST, and JWST in NGC 3351
Jiayi Sun, Hao He, Kyle Batschkun +38
We study young massive clusters (YMCs) in their embedded "infant" phase with ALMA, HST, and JWST observations targeting the central starburst ring in NGC…
Star Formation Efficiency in Nearby Galaxies Revealed with a New CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor Prescription
Yu-Hsuan Teng, I-Da Chiang, Karin M. Sandstrom +24
Determining how galactic environment, especially the high gas densities and complex dynamics in bar-fed galaxy centers, alters the star formation efficiency (SFE) of molecular gas…
Resolved low-J CO excitation at 190 parsec resolution across NGC 2903 and NGC 3627
J. S. den Brok, A. K. Leroy, A. Usero +14
The low- rotational transitions of CO are commonly used to trace the distribution of molecular gas in galaxies. Their ratios are sensitive to excitation and physical cond…
VERTICO VI: Cold-gas asymmetries in Virgo cluster galaxies
Ian D. Roberts, Toby Brown, Nikki Zabel +20
We analyze cold-gas distributions in Virgo cluster galaxies using resolved CO(2-1) (tracing molecular hydrogen, H2) and HI observations from the Virgo Environment Traced In CO (VER…
VERTICO V: The environmentally driven evolution of the inner cold gas discs of Virgo cluster galaxies
Adam B. Watts, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella +18
The quenching of cluster satellite galaxies is inextricably linked to the suppression of their cold interstellar medium (ISM) by environmental mechanisms. While the removal of neut…
Star Formation Laws and Efficiencies across 80 Nearby Galaxies
Jiayi Sun, Adam K. Leroy, Eve C. Ostriker +37
We measure empirical relationships between the local star formation rate (SFR) and properties of the star-forming molecular gas on 1.5 kpc scales across 80 nearby galaxies. These r…
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…
Sub-kiloparsec empirical relations and excitation conditions of HCN and HCO+ J=3-2 in nearby star-forming galaxies
Axel Garcia-Rodriguez, Antonio Usero, Adam K. Leroy +24
We present new HCN and HCO (=3-2) images of the nearby star-forming galaxies (SFGs) NGC 3351, NGC 3627, and NGC 4321. The observations, obtained with the Morita ALMA Compact…
PHANGS-JWST First Results: Mid-infrared emission traces both gas column density and heating at 100 pc scales
Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, Erik Rosolowsky +48
We compare mid-infrared (mid-IR), extinction-corrected H, and CO (2-1) emission at 70--160 pc resolution in the first four PHANGS-JWST targets. We report correlation strengths,…
The PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS
Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +74
The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference dataset for the multi-scale, multi-phase study of star formation and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. With the suc…