We present a review of spatially resolved giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in nearby galaxies,
aiming at providing a template of GMC properties, which may be extrapolated to distant …

We estimate the conversion factor relating CO emission to H 2 mass, α CO, in five Local
Group galaxies that span approximately an order of magnitude in metallicity—M 31, M 33 …

We present a large set of theoretical isochrones, whose distinctive features mostly reside on
the greatly-improved treatment of the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a critical role in the reprocessing of stellar
radiation and balancing the heating and cooling processes in the interstellar medium but …

ABSTRACT MIPSGAL is a 278 deg 2 survey of the inner Galactic plane using the Multiband
Infrared Photometer for Spitzer aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. The survey field was …

We present a new approach for estimating the 3.6 μm stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratio ϒ 3.6
in terms of the [3.6]–[4.5] colors of old stellar populations. Our approach avoids several of the …

Context. The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started
operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six public surveys, one of …

Gas in galactic disks is collected by gravitational instabilities into giant atomic–molecular
complexes, but only the inner, molecular parts of these structures are able to collapse to …

In an attempt to constrain evolutionary models of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase at
the limit of low masses and low metallicities, we have examined the luminosity functions and …

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) is an ESO Large Programme that has obtained
multi-epoch optical spectroscopy of over 800 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the …