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 formation in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

RC Kennicutt Jr, NJ Evans - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review progress over the past decade in observations of large-scale star formation, with
a focus on the interface between extragalactic and Galactic studies. Methods of measuring …

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 …

The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It remains a major challenge to derive a theory of cloud-scale (pc) star formation and
feedback, describing how galaxies convert gas into stars as a function of the galactic …

Deriving physical properties from broadband photometry with Prospector: description of the model and a demonstration of its accuracy using 129 galaxies in the local …

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Broadband photometry of galaxies measures an unresolved mix of complex stellar
populations, gas, and dust. Interpreting these data is a challenge for models: many studies …

WALLABY – an SKA Pathfinder H i survey

BS Koribalski, L Staveley-Smith, T Westmeier… - Astrophysics and Space …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (wallaby) is a next-
generation survey of neutral hydrogen (H i) in the Local Universe. It uses the widefield, high …

ISM Masses and the Star formation Law at Z= 1 to 6: ALMA Observations of Dust Continuum in 145 Galaxies in the COSMOS Survey Field

N Scoville, K Sheth, H Aussel, PV Bout… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ISM MASSES AND THE STAR FORMATION LAW AT Z = 1 TO 6: ALMA OBSERVATIONS
OF DUST CONTINUUM IN 145 GALAXIES IN THE COSMOS SURVEY FIELD - IOPscience …

Observational constraints on the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae: the case for missing high-mass stars

SJ Smartt - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2015 - cambridge.org
Over the last 15 years, the supernova community has endeavoured to directly identify
progenitor stars for core-collapse supernovae discovered in nearby galaxies. These …

The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group

AW McConnachie - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Positional, structural, and dynamical parameters for all dwarf galaxies in and around the
Local Group are presented, and various aspects of our observational understanding of this …

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 …