2 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
Witnessing the violent, merger-driven formation of an extremely massive galaxy 1.7 Gyr after the Big Bang
Lura K. Pitchford, Joseph Cairns, Duncan Farrah +4
We combine near-infrared imaging in two bands from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with archival observations of molecular gas to study SDSS J160705.16+533558.6 (J1607), an extrem…
astro-ph.GA2025
Molecular Gas Heating, Star Formation Rate Relations, and AGN Feedback in Infrared-luminous Galaxy Mergers
Duncan Farrah, Andreas Efstathiou, Jose Afonso +13
We examine the origin of molecular gas heating in a sample of 42 infrared-luminous galaxies at by combining two sets of archival data. First, integrated CO line luminositie…