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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The PHANGS–MUSE nebular catalogue

B Groves, K Kreckel, F Santoro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ionized nebulae provide critical insights into the conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM).
Their bright emission lines enable the measurement of physical properties, such as the gas …

Low-J CO Line Ratios from Single-dish CO Mapping Surveys and PHANGS-ALMA

AK Leroy, E Rosolowsky, A Usero… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the low-J CO line ratios R 21≡ CO (2–1)/CO (1–0), R 32≡ CO (3–2)/CO (2–1),
and R 31≡ CO (3–2)/CO (1–0) using whole-disk CO maps of nearby galaxies. We draw CO …