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most citedMolecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales Across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population

153 citations · 516 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

VERTICO III: The Kennicutt-Schmidt relation in Virgo cluster galaxies

M. J. Jiménez-Donaire, T. Brown, C. D. Wilson +19

In this VERTICO science paper we aim to study how the star formation process depends on galactic environment and gravitational interactions in the context of galaxy evolution. We e…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

VERTICO IV: Environmental Effects on the Gas Distribution and Star Formation Efficiency of Virgo Cluster Spirals

Vicente Villanueva, Alberto D. Bolatto, Stuart Vogel +18

We measure the molecular-to-atomic gas ratio, , and the star formation rate (SFR) per unit molecular gas mass, SFE, in 38 nearby galaxies selected from the…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 113 cited

Low-J CO Line Ratios From Single Dish CO Mapping Surveys and PHANGS-ALMA

Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky, Antonio Usero +32

We measure the low-J CO line ratio R21=CO(2-1)/CO(1-0), R32=CO(3-2)/CO(2-1), and R31 = CO(3-2)/CO(1-0) using whole-disk CO maps of nearby galaxies. We draw CO(2-1) from PHANGS--ALM…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

Super Star Clusters in the Central Starburst of NGC 4945

Kimberly L. Emig, Alberto D. Bolatto, Adam K. Leroy +12

NGC 4945 is a nearby (3.8 Mpc) galaxy hosting a nuclear starburst and Seyfert Type 2 AGN. We use the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to image the 93 GHz (3.2 mm…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 153 cited

Molecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales Across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population

Jiayi Sun, Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer +34

Using the PHANGS-ALMA CO (2-1) survey, we characterize molecular gas properties on 100 pc scales across 102,778 independent sightlines in 70 nearby galaxies. This yields th…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 64 cited

Optical Depth Estimates and Effective Critical Densities of Dense Gas Tracers in the Inner Parts of Nearby Galaxy Discs

M. J. Jimenez-Donaire, F. Bigiel, A. K. Leroy +17

High critical density molecular lines like HCN(1-0) or HCO+(1-0) represent our best tool to study currently star-forming, dense molecular gas at extragalactic distances. The optica…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

Millimeter-Wave Line Ratios and Sub-beam Volume Density Distributions

Adam K. Leroy, Antonio Usero, Andreas Schruba +11

We explore the use of mm-wave emission line ratios to trace molecular gas density when observations integrate over a wide range of volume densities within a single telescope beam.…