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By comparing sensitive Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) infrared and Green Bank Telescope 21 cm observations, we are able to report the first detection of dust emission in Complex C, the largest High Velocity Cloud in the sky. Dust in the…

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Comparison of the ISM properties of a wide range of metal-poor galaxies with normal metal-rich galaxies reveals striking differences. We find that the combination of the low dust abundance and the active star formation results in a very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Suzanne C. Madden , Diane Cormier , Aurelie Remy-Ruyer

We present numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs) with self-consistent CO gas-phase and isotope chemistry in various environments. The simulations are post-processed with a line radiative transfer code to obtain $^{12}$CO and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-25 László Szűcs , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

We have determined column densities of H I and/or H_2 for sight lines in the Magellanic Clouds from archival HST and FUSE spectra of H I Lyman-alpha and H_2 Lyman-band absorption. Together with some similar data from the literature, we now…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel E. Welty , Rui Xue , Tony Wong

We compare atomic gas, molecular gas, and the recent star formation rate (SFR) inferred from H-alpha in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). By using infrared dust emission and local dust-to-gas ratios, we construct a map of molecular gas that…

We present new CO 1-0 and 2-1 observations of the N83/N84 molecular cloud complex in the south-east Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). While the 2-1/1-0 integrated line brightness ratio (in temperature units) is uniformly 0.9…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto D. Bolatto , Adam Leroy , James M. Jackson , Frank P. Israel

The Magellanic Mopra Assessment (MAGMA) is a high angular resolution CO mapping survey of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the Mopra Telescope. Here we report on the basic physical properties of…

ABRIDGED: Context: HI and CO large scale surveys of the Milky Way trace the diffuse atomic clouds and the dense shielded regions of molecular hydrogen clouds. However, until recently, we have not had spectrally resolved C+ surveys to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 W. D. Langer , T. Velusamy , J. L. Pineda , K. Willacy , P. F. Goldsmith

Our understanding of how molecular clouds form in the interstellar medium (ISM) would be greatly helped if we had a reliable observational tracer of the gas flows responsible for forming the clouds. Fine structure emission from singly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-14 Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Sarah E. Ragan , Ana Duarte-Cabral

We present the first results on the diffuse transition clouds observed in [CII] line emission at 158 microns (1.9 THz) towards Galactic longitudes near 340deg (5 LOSs) and 20deg (11 LOSs) as part of the GOT C+ survey. Out of the total 146…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Velusamy , W. D. Langer , J. L. Pineda , P. F. Goldsmith , D. Li. , H. W. Yorke

We investigate the physical properties of gas structures under feedback in the G333 complex using data of the 13CO (3-2) line in the LAsMA observation. We used the Dendrogram algorithm to identify molecular gas structures based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 J. W. Zhou , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , I. Barlach Christensen , K. M. Menten , S. H. Li , T. Liu

We present an analysis of the systematic CO(2-1) survey at 12" resolution covering most of the local group spiral M 33 which, at a distance of 840 kpc, is close enough that individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs) can be identified. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Gratier , J. Braine , N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , K. F. Schuster , C. Kramer , E. Corbelli , F. Combes , N. Brouillet , P. P. van der Werf , M. Röllig

We present maps and a catalogue containing the J=1-0 12CO parameters of 29 individual molecular clouds in the second-brightest LMC star formation complex, N11. In the southwestern part of N11, molecular clouds occur in a ring or shell…

We measure the parsec-scale relationship between integrated CO intensity (I_CO) and visual extinction (A_V) in 24 local molecular clouds using maps of CO emission and dust optical depth from Planck. This relationship informs our…

We describe a moderate-resolution FUSE survey of H2 along 70 sight lines to the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, using hot stars as background sources. FUSE spectra of 67% of observed Magellanic Cloud sources (52% of LMC and 92% of SMC)…

Cold atomic hydrogen clouds are the precursors of molecular clouds. Due to self-absorption, the opacity of cold atomic hydrogen may be high, and this gas may constitute an important mass component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Atomic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Boyang Liu , Di Li , Lister Staveley-Smith , Lei Qian , Tony Wong , Paul Goldsmith

Observations of molecular clouds in metal-poor environments typically find that they have much higher star formation rates than one would expect based on their observed CO luminosities and the molecular gas masses that are inferred from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark

We study the morphological properties of mid-infrared selected galaxies at $1.0<z<1.7$ in the SMACS J0723.3-7327 cluster field, to investigate the mechanisms of galaxy mass assembly and structural formation at cosmic noon. We develop a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Zhaoran Liu , Takahiro Morishita , Tadayuki Kodama

Observations and modeling suggest that the dust abundance (gas-to-dust ratio, G/D) depends on (surface) density. The variations of the G/D provide constraints on the timescales for the different processes involved in the lifecycle of metals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Julia Roman-Duval , Caroline Bot , Jeremy Chastenet , Karl Gordon

We compare the CO J =(1-0) and HI emission in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in three dimensions, i.e. including a velocity axis in addition to the two spatial axes, with the aim of elucidating the physical connection between giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , T. Wong , M. Murai , H. Iritani , N. Mizuno , Y. Mizuno , T. Onishi , A. Hughes , J. Ott , E. Muller , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim