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Galaxy clusters are thought to grow hierarchically through the continuous merging and accretion of smaller structures across cosmic time. In the local Universe, these phenomena are still active in the outer regions of massive clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 D. Eckert , S. Ettori , E. Pointecouteau , S. Molendi , S. Paltani , C. Tchernin

We present high resolution maps ($\sim 2^{''}$) maps of the J=1-0 and J=2-1 transitions of C$^{18}$O in the central $\sim 150$ pc of the gas-rich nucleus of IC 342, made with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array. From the C$^{18}$O maps we are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David S. Meier , Jean L. Turner

The nearby dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 205 offers a unique opportunity for high resolution studies of the interstellar medium in an elliptical galaxy. This paper investigates the distribution of molecular gas, molecular line ratios, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. M. Young

Massive stars play an important role in the Universe. Unlike low-mass stars, the formation of these objects located at great distances is still unclear. It is expected to be governed by some combination of self-gravity, turbulence, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 A. G. Pazukhin , I. I. Zinchenko , E. A. Trofimova

We present fluxes in both neutral carbon [CI] lines at the centers of 76 galaxies with FIR luminosities between 10^{9} and 10^{12} L(o) obtained with Herschel-SPIRE and with ground-based facilities, along with the J=7-6, J=4-3, J=2-1 12CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 F. P. Israel , M. J. F. Rosenberg , P. van der Werf

We present a uniform catalog of accurate distances to local molecular clouds informed by the Gaia DR2 data release. Our methodology builds on that of Schlafly et al. (2014). First, we infer the distance and extinction to stars along…

The Planck Catalogue of Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCC) contains over 13000 sources detected based on their cold dust signature. They are believed to consist of a mixture of quiescent, pre-stellar, and already star-forming objects. We extracted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Mika Juvela , Paolo Padoan , Isabelle Ristorcelli , Veli-Matti Pelkonen

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

The DECam Plane Survey is a five-band optical and near-infrared survey of the southern Galactic plane with the Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo. The survey is designed to reach past the main-sequence turn-off at the distance of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 E. F. Schlafly , G. M. Green , D. Lang , T. Daylan , D. P. Finkbeiner , A. Lee , A. M. Meisner , D. Schlegel , F. Valdes

We present the results of a single-pointing survey of 207 dense cores embedded in Planck Galactic Cold Clumps distributed in five different environments ($\lambda$ Orionis, Orion A, B, Galactic plane, and high latitudes) to identify dense…

In this paper we present the distribution of molecular gas in the Milky Way Galactic plane from $l$ = [59.75, 74.75]$^{\circ}$ and $b$ = [${-}$5.25, +5.25]$^{\circ}$, using the MWISP $^{12}$CO/$^{13}$CO/$\rm {C}^{18}{O}$ emission line data.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chunxue Li , Hongchi Wang , Yuehui Ma , Lianghao Lin , Yang Su , Chong Li , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou , Ji Yang

We observed a 10x20 pc region of the molecular cloud M17 in the 12CO and 13CO J=3-2 and J=2-1 transitions to determine their global behavior and to assess the reliability of using ratios of CO line intensities integrated over an entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. D. Wilson , J. E. Howe , M. L. Balogh

We present a pilot program using IRAM's NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) to probe the molecular gas reservoirs of six $z=0.6-1.1$ star-forming galaxies whose circumgalactic medium has been observed in absorption along quasar…

Constraining the physical and chemical evolution of molecular clouds is essential to our understanding of star formation. These investigations often necessitate knowledge of some local representative number density of the gas along the line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 Brandt A. L. Gaches , Michael Y. Grudić

The relations between star formation and properties of molecular clouds are studied based on a sample of star forming regions in the Galactic Plane. Sources were selected by having radio recombination lines to provide identification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Nalin Vutisalchavakul , Neal J. Evans , Mark Heyer

Clouds containing molecular dark matter in quantities relevant for star formation may exist in minihaloes of the type of cold dark matter included in many cosmological simulations or in the regions of some galaxies extending far beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Bell , T. W. Hartquist , S. Viti , D. A. Williams

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

(Abridged) We present a cloud decomposition of $^{12}$CO (2--1) observations of the merger and nearest luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 3256. 185 spatially and spectrally resolved clouds are identified across the central $\approx$ 130…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Nathan Brunetti , Christine D. Wilson

The processes regulating star formation in galaxies are thought to act across a hierarchy of spatial scales. To connect extragalactic star formation relations from global and kpc-scale measurements to recent cloud-scale resolution studies,…

We study the relationship between molecular gas and dust in the California Molecular Cloud over an unprecedented dynamic range of cloud depth (Av = 3 - 60 magnitudes). We compare deep Herschel-based measurements of dust extinction with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 John Arban Lewis , Charles Lada , John Bieging , Anoush Kazarians , João Alves , Marco Lombardi