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 …

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G): Multi-component decomposition strategies and data release

H Salo, E Laurikainen, J Laine… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S 4 G) is a deep 3.6 and 4.5
μm imaging survey of 2352 nearby (< 40 Mpc) galaxies. We describe the S 4 G data analysis …

The PHANGS–JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

JC Lee, KM Sandstrom, AK Leroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference data set for the multiscale,
multiphase study of star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies. With …

Ionized outflows in local luminous AGN: what are the real densities and outflow rates?

R Davies, D Baron, T Shimizu, H Netzer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We report on the determination of electron densities, and their impact on the outflow masses
and rates, measured in the central few hundred parsecs of 11 local luminous active …

ALMA reveals potential evidence for spiral arms, bars, and rings in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies

JA Hodge, I Smail, F Walter, E da Cunha… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present subkiloparsec-scale mapping of the 870 μm ALMA continuum emission in six
luminous (L IR∼ 5× 10 12 L⊙) submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from the ALESS survey of the …

Spirals in galaxies

JA Sellwood, KL Masters - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Spirals in galaxies have long been thought to be caused by gravitational instability in the
stellar component of the disk, but discerning the precise mechanism had proved elusive …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: Rapid Evolution of Star Formation in the Central Molecular Gas Ring of NGC 1365

E Schinnerer, E Emsellem, JD Henshaw… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Large-scale bars can fuel galaxy centers with molecular gas, often leading to the
development of dense ringlike structures where intense star formation occurs, forming a very …

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G): Precise stellar mass distributions from automated dust correction at 3.6 μm

M Querejeta, SE Meidt, E Schinnerer… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
THE SPITZER SURVEY OF STELLAR STRUCTURE IN GALAXIES (S4G): PRECISE STELLAR
MASS DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AUTOMATED DUST CORRECTION AT 3.6 μm - IOPscience …

Kinematic signatures of nuclear discs and bar-driven secular evolution in nearby galaxies of the MUSE TIMER project

DA Gadotti, A Bittner, J Falcón-Barroso… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The central regions of disc galaxies hold clues to the processes that dominate their
formation and evolution. To exploit this, the TIMER project has obtained high signal-to-noise …

The dependence of bar frequency on galaxy mass, colour, and gas content–and angular resolution–in the local universe

P Erwin - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018 - academic.oup.com
I use distance-and mass-limited subsamples of the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in
Galaxies (S4G) to investigate how the presence of bars in spiral galaxies depends on mass …