The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor

AD Bolatto, M Wolfire, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
CO line emission represents the most accessible and widely used tracer of the molecular
ISM. This renders the translation of observed CO intensity into total H2 gas mass critical to …

Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

CM Casey, D Narayanan, A Cooray - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength surveys have now established the important role
of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) in the assembly of stellar mass and the evolution of …

PHIBSS: unified scaling relations of gas depletion time and molecular gas fractions

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations between galaxy-integrated
molecular gas masses, stellar masses, and star formation rates (SFRs), in the framework of …

Tracing the total molecular gas in galaxies:[CII] and the CO-dark gas

SC Madden, D Cormier, S Hony, V Lebouteiller… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Molecular gas is a necessary fuel for star formation. The CO (1− 0) transition is
often used to deduce the total molecular hydrogen but is challenging to detect in low …

Cool gas in high-redshift galaxies

CL Carilli, F Walter - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, observations of the cool interstellar medium (ISM) in distant galaxies
via molecular and atomic fine structure line (FSL) emission have gone from a curious look …

The evolving interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies since z= 2 as probed by their infrared spectral energy distributions

GE Magdis, E Daddi, M Béthermin… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Using data from the mid-infrared to millimeter wavelengths for individual galaxies and for
stacked ensembles at 0.5< z< 2, we derive robust estimates of dust masses (M dust) for main …

ALMA uncovers the [C ii] emission and warm dust continuum in a z = 8.31 Lyman break galaxy

TJLC Bakx, Y Tamura, T Hashimoto… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We report on the detection of the [C ii] 157.7 μ m emission from the Lyman break galaxy
(LBG) MACS0416_Y1 at z= 8.3113, by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter …

Submillimeter galaxies as progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies

S Toft, V Smolčić, B Magnelli, A Karim… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Three billion years after the big bang (at redshift z= 2), half of the most massive galaxies
were already old, quiescent systems with little to no residual star formation and extremely …

Automated Mining of the ALMA Archive in the COSMOS Field (A3COSMOS). II. Cold Molecular Gas Evolution out to Redshift 6

D Liu, E Schinnerer, B Groves, B Magnelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new measurements of the cosmic cold molecular gas evolution out to redshift 6
based on systematic mining of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) …

Regularity underlying complexity: a redshift-independent description of the continuous variation of galaxy-scale molecular gas properties in the mass-star formation …

MT Sargent, E Daddi, M Béthermin… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) display a continuous specific star formation rate (sSFR)
distribution, which can be approximated by two log-normal functions: one encompassing the …