Untangling the galaxy. I. Local structure and star formation history of the milky way

M Kounkel, K Covey - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Gaia DR2 provides unprecedented precision in measurements of the distance and
kinematics of stars in the solar neighborhood. Through applying unsupervised machine …

A guided map to the spiral arms in the galactic disk of the Milky Way

JP Vallée - Astronomical Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
An up-to-date overview of the recent history is given, aiming is to present a helpful working
guide to the literature and at the same time introduce key systems and observational results …

FOREST unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN). I. Project overview and initial results

T Umemoto, T Minamidani, N Kuno… - Publications of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The FUGIN project is one of legacy projects using a new multi-beam FOREST (four-beam
receiver system on the 45 m telescope). This project aims to simultaneously investigate the …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies

KM Sandstrom, EW Koch, AK Leroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
JWST observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission provide some of the
deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby …

The Cloud Factory I: Generating resolved filamentary molecular clouds from galactic-scale forces

RJ Smith, RG Treß, MC Sormani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a new suite of simulations,'The Cloud Factory', which self-consistently forms
molecular cloud complexes at high enough resolution to resolve internal substructure (up to …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: The Dust Filament Network of NGC 628 and Its Relation to Star Formation Activity

DA Thilker, JC Lee, S Deger, AT Barnes… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract PHANGS–JWST mid-infrared (MIR) imaging of nearby spiral galaxies has revealed
ubiquitous filaments of dust emission in intricate detail. We present a pilot study to …

Ubiquitous velocity fluctuations throughout the molecular interstellar medium

JD Henshaw, JMD Kruijssen, SN Longmore… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The density structure of the interstellar medium determines where stars form and release
energy, momentum and heavy elements, driving galaxy evolution,,–. Density variations are …

SILCC-Zoom: the dynamic and chemical evolution of molecular clouds

D Seifried, S Walch, P Girichidis, T Naab… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present 3D 'zoom-in'simulations of the formation of two molecular clouds out of the
galactic interstellar medium. We model the clouds–identified from the SILCC simulations …

Large-scale filaments associated with Milky Way spiral arms

K Wang, L Testi, A Ginsburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The ubiquity of filamentary structure at various scales throughout the Galaxy has triggered a
renewed interest in their formation, evolution, and role in star formation. The largest …

The HI/OH/Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way (THOR)-Survey overview and data release 1

H Beuther, S Bihr, M Rugel, K Johnston… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. The past decade has witnessed a large number of Galactic plane surveys at
angular resolutions below 20′′. However, no comparable high-resolution survey exists at …