Molecular Gas and the Star-Formation Process on Cloud Scales in Nearby Galaxies

E Schinnerer, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of
the gas–star formation feedback “matter cycle” have provided a sharp new view of molecular …

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 …

Environmental dependence of the molecular cloud lifecycle in 54 main-sequence galaxies

J Kim, M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas
and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs;∼ 100 pc), play a major role in …

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 & …

A tale of two DIGs: The relative role of H II regions and low-mass hot evolved stars in powering the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in PHANGS–MUSE galaxies

F Belfiore, F Santoro, B Groves, E Schinnerer… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We use integral field spectroscopy from the PHANGS–MUSE survey, which resolves the
ionised interstellar medium structure at∼ 50 pc resolution in 19 nearby spiral galaxies, to …

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 …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: A Statistical View on Bubble Evolution in NGC 628

EJ Watkins, AT Barnes, K Henny, H Kim… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The first JWST observations of nearby galaxies have unveiled a rich population of bubbles
that trace the stellar-feedback mechanisms responsible for their creation. Studying these …

Star formation scaling relations at∼ 100 pc from PHANGS: Impact of completeness and spatial scale

I Pessa, E Schinnerer, F Belfiore, E Emsellem… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. The complexity of star formation at the physical scale of molecular clouds is not yet
fully understood. We investigate the mechanisms regulating the formation of stars in different …

A CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirlpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS)

JS den Brok, F Bigiel, K Sliwa, T Saito, A Usero… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We present the CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS),
which is based on an IRAM 30 m large programme that provides a benchmark study of …

Disc settling and dynamical heating: histories of Milky Way-mass stellar discs across cosmic time in the FIRE simulations

F McCluskey, A Wetzel, SR Loebman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We study the kinematics of stars both at their formation and today within 14 Milky Way (MW)-
mass galaxies from the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations. We quantify the relative …