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 …

Line-intensity mapping: theory review with a focus on star-formation lines

JL Bernal, ED Kovetz - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2022 - Springer
Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging approach to survey the Universe, using
relatively low-aperture instruments to scan large portions of the sky and collect the total …

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 …

High-redshift star formation in the Atacama large millimetre/submillimetre array era

JA Hodge, E da Cunha - Royal Society Open Science, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is currently in the process of
transforming our view of star-forming galaxies in the distant (z≳ 1) universe. Before ALMA …

The [C ii] emission as a molecular gas mass tracer in galaxies at low and high redshifts

A Zanella, E Daddi, G Magdis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present ALMA Band 9 observations of the [C ii] 158 m emission for a sample of 10 main-
sequence galaxies at redshift∼ 2, with typical stellar masses (log M⋆/M⊙∼ 10.0–10.9) and …

The [CII] 158 μm line emission in high-redshift galaxies

G Lagache, M Cousin, M Chatzikos - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2018 - aanda.org
Gas is a crucial component of galaxies, providing the fuel to form stars, and it is impossible
to understand the evolution of galaxies without knowing their gas properties. The [CII] fine …

The Gas and Stellar Content of a Metal-poor Galaxy at z= 8.496 as Revealed by JWST and ALMA

KE Heintz, C Giménez-Arteaga… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a joint analysis of the galaxy S04590 at z= 8.496 based on NIRSpec, NIRCam,
and NIRISS observations obtained as part of the Early Release Observations program of the …

A cold, massive, rotating disk galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

M Neeleman, JX Prochaska, N Kanekar, M Rafelski - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Massive disk galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to form at late times in traditional
models of galaxy formation,, but recent numerical simulations suggest that such galaxies …

Physical Constraints on the Extended Interstellar Medium of the z= 6.42 Quasar J1148+ 5251:[C ii] 158 μm,[N ii] 205 μm, and [O i] 146 μm Observations

RA Meyer, F Walter, C Cicone, P Cox… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We report new Northern Extended Millimeter Array observations of the [C ii] 158
μm,[N ii] 205 μm, and [O i] 146 μm atomic fine structure lines (FSLs) and dust continuum …

A physical model for [C ii] line emission from galaxies

A Ferrara, L Vallini, A Pallottini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A tight relation between the [C ii] 158 m line luminosity and star formation rate is
measured in local galaxies. At high redshift (z> 5), though, a much larger scatter is observed …