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 …

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 …

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 …

From dawn till disc: Milky Way's turbulent youth revealed by the APOGEE+Gaia data

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We use accurate estimates of aluminium abundance from the APOGEE Data Release 17
and Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometry to select a highly pure sample of stars with …

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∼ …

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 dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert

MY Grudić, D Guszejnov, SSR Offner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the first giant molecular cloud (GMC) simulation to follow the formation of
individual stars and their feedback from jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae, using the …

Distances to PHANGS galaxies: New tip of the red giant branch measurements and adopted distances

GS Anand, JC Lee, SD Van Dyk… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT PHANGS-HST is an ultraviolet-optical imaging survey of 38 spiral galaxies
within∼ 20 Mpc. Combined with the PHANGS-ALMA, PHANGS-MUSE surveys and other …

PHANGS–ALMA Data Processing and Pipeline

AK Leroy, A Hughes, D Liu, J Pety… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the processing of the PHANGS–ALMA survey and present the PHANGS–ALMA
pipeline, a public software package that processes calibrated interferometric and total power …

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 …