Photodissociation and X-Ray-Dominated Regions

MG Wolfire, L Vallini, M Chevance - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The radiation from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) creates photodissociation regions
(PDRs) and X-ray-dominated regions (XDRs), where the chemistry or heating is dominated …

Star Clusters Near and Far: Tracing Star Formation Across Cosmic Time

A Adamo, P Zeidler, JMD Kruijssen, M Chevance… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host
galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, ie detailed insight …

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 …

Giant molecular cloud catalogues for PHANGS-ALMA: methods and initial results

E Rosolowsky, A Hughes, AK Leroy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present improved methods for segmenting CO emission from galaxies into individual
molecular clouds, providing an update to the cprops algorithms presented by Rosolowsky & …

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 molecular cloud lifecycle

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their stellar offspring are the building blocks of galaxies.
The physical characteristics of GMCs and their evolution are tightly connected to galaxy …

PHANGS CO kinematics: disk orientations and rotation curves at 150 pc resolution

P Lang, SE Meidt, E Rosolowsky, J Nofech… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present kinematic orientations and high-resolution (150 pc) rotation curves for 67 main-
sequence star-forming galaxies surveyed in CO (2–1) emission by PHANGS–ALMA. Our …

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 …

Which feedback mechanisms dominate in the high-pressure environment of the Central Molecular Zone?

AT Barnes, SN Longmore, JE Dale… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Supernovae (SNe) dominate the energy and momentum budget of stellar feedback, but the
efficiency with which they couple to the interstellar medium (ISM) depends strongly on how …

A model for the formation of stellar associations and clusters from giant molecular clouds

MY Grudić, JM Diederik Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a large suite of magnetohydrodynamic simulations of turbulent, star-forming
giant molecular clouds (GMCs) with stellar feedback, extending previous work by simulating …