Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

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 …

JADES imaging of GN-z11: revealing the morphology and environment of a luminous galaxy 430 Myr after the Big Bang

S Tacchella, DJ Eisenstein, K Hainline… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present JWST NIRCam nine-band near-infrared imaging of the luminous z= 10.6 galaxy
GN-z11 from the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey of the GOODS-N field. We find …

CEERS key paper. IV. A triality in the nature of HST-dark galaxies

PG Pérez-González, G Barro… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The new capabilities that JWST offers in the near-and mid-infrared (IR) are used to
investigate in unprecedented detail the nature of optical/near-IR-faint, mid-IR-bright sources …

CIGALE: a Python code investigating galaxy emission

M Boquien, D Burgarella, Y Roehlly, V Buat… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. Measuring how the physical properties of galaxies change across cosmic times is
essential to understand galaxy formation and evolution. With the advent of numerous ground …

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 …

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 …

Modeling the panchromatic spectral energy distributions of galaxies

C Conroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies are shaped by nearly every physical
property of the system, including the star-formation history, metal content, abundance …

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 …

Star formation laws and efficiencies across 80 nearby galaxies

J Sun, AK Leroy, EC Ostriker, S Meidt… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure empirical relationships between the local star formation rate (SFR) and
properties of the star-forming molecular gas on 1.5 kpc scales across 80 nearby galaxies …