The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local universe

A Saintonge, B Catinella - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is
the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by …

The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

The phangs-muse survey-probing the chemo-dynamical evolution of disc galaxies

E Emsellem, E Schinnerer, F Santoro, F Belfiore… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present the PHANGS-MUSE survey, a programme that uses the MUSE integral field
spectrograph at the ESO VLT to map 19 massive (9.4< log (M⋆/M⊙)< 11.0) nearby (D≲ 20 …

Supermassive black holes at high redshift are expected to be obscured by their massive host galaxies' interstellar medium

R Gilli, C Norman, F Calura, F Vito, R Decarli… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We combine results from deep ALMA observations of massive (M*> 10 10 M⊙) galaxies at
different redshifts to show that the column density of their interstellar medium (ISM) rapidly …

On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback

JM Piotrowska, AFL Bluck, R Maiolino… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we investigate how massive central galaxies cease their star formation by
comparing theoretical predictions from cosmological simulations: EAGLE, Illustris, and …

Molecular cloud populations in the context of their host galaxy environments: a multiwavelength perspective

J Sun, AK Leroy, E Rosolowsky, A Hughes… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a rich, multiwavelength, multiscale database built around the PHANGS–ALMA
CO (2− 1) survey and ancillary data. We use this database to present the distributions of …

Stellar structures, molecular gas, and star formation across the PHANGS sample of nearby galaxies

M Querejeta, E Schinnerer, S Meidt, J Sun… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We identify stellar structures in the PHANGS sample of 74 nearby galaxies and construct
morphological masks of sub-galactic environments based on Spitzer 3.6 μm images. At the …

Low-J CO Line Ratios from Single-dish CO Mapping Surveys and PHANGS-ALMA

AK Leroy, E Rosolowsky, A Usero… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the low-J CO line ratios R 21≡ CO (2–1)/CO (1–0), R 32≡ CO (3–2)/CO (2–1),
and R 31≡ CO (3–2)/CO (1–0) using whole-disk CO maps of nearby galaxies. We draw CO …

Dust, CO, and [C i]: cross-calibration of molecular gas mass tracers in metal-rich galaxies across cosmic time

L Dunne, SJ Maddox, PP Papadopoulos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a self-consistent cross-calibration of the three main molecular gas mass tracers
in galaxies, namely the 12CO (1–0),[C i](3 P 1–3 P 0) lines, and the submm dust continuum …