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High-velocity clouds (HVCs), which are gas clouds moving at high velocity relative to the galactic disk, may play a critical role in galaxy evolution, potentially supplying gas to the disk and triggering star formation. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Maki Nagata , Fumi Egusa , Fumiya Maeda , Kazuki Tokuda , Kotaro Kohno , Kana Morokuma-Matsui , Jin Koda

We report molecular line and continuum observations toward one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs), GMC-16, in M33 using ALMA with an angular resolution of 0$''$44 $\times$ 0$''$27 ($\sim$2 pc $\times$ 1 pc). We have found…

We use new high-resolution HI data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) to investigate the dynamics of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We model the HI gas component as a rotating disc of non-negligible angular…

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

Very sensitive 21cm HI measurements have been made at several locations around the Local Group galaxy M31 using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at an angular resolution of 9.1', with a 5$\sigma$ detection level of $\rm{N_{HI} = 3.9 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Spencer A. Wolfe , Felix J. Lockman , D. J. Pisano

The destruction of Giant Molecular Clouds is a key component in galaxy evolution. We theoretically model the destruction of GMCs by HII regions, which evaporate ionized gas and eject neutral gas during their expansion. HII regions follow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 David Hollenbach , Antonio Parravano , Christopher McKee

We report an observational study of the giant molecular cloud (GMC) associated with the Galactic infrared ring-like structure N35 and two nearby HII regions G024.392+00.072 (HII region A) and G024.510-00.060 (HII region B), using the new CO…

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

Two selected regions in the molecular gas spiral arms in M51 were mapped with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) mm-interferometer in the 12CO(2-1), 13CO(1-0), C18O(1-0), HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) emission lines. The CO data have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Schinnerer , A. Weiss , S. Aalto , N. Z. Scoville

We present high resolution large scale observations of the molecular and atomic gas in the Local Group Galaxy M33. The observations were carried out using the HERA at the 30m IRAM telescope in the CO(2-1) line achieving a resolution of…

We present the results of a study of simulated Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) formed in a Milky Way-type galactic disk with a flat rotation curve. This simulation, which does not include star formation or feedback, produces clouds with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Samantha M. Benincasa , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Ralph E. Pudritz , James Wadsley

We investigate the impact of galactic environment on the properties of simulated giant molecular clouds formed in a M83-type barred spiral galaxy. Our simulation uses a rotating stellar potential to create the grand design features and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Yusuke Fujimoto , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Mariko Wakayama , Asao Habe

The Galactic HII region G353.2+0.9 is excited by the massive open cluster Pismis-24. By analyzing (sub-)mm molecular-line and -continuum we study the detailed morphology of the gas and dust, as well as their physical parameters and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Giannetti , J. Brand , F. Massi , A. Tieftrunk , M. T. Beltran

We derive total (atomic + molecular) hydrogen densities in giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy M33 using a method that views the atomic hydrogen near regions of recent star formation as the product of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 J. S. Heiner , R. J. Allen , P. C. van der Kruit

We report the results of our observations of the 12CO (J=1-0) and 12CO (J=3-2) line emission of 74 major giant molecular clouds (GMCs) within the galactocentric distance of 5.1 kpc in the Local Group galaxy M33. The observations have been…

We investigate how the spectral properties of atomic (HI) and molecular (H$_2$) gas, traced by CO(2-1), are related in M33 on $80$ pc scales. We find the HI and CO(2-1) velocity at peak intensity to be highly correlated, consistent with…

The grand-design spiral galaxy M~51 was observed at 40pc resolution in CO(1--0) by the PAWS project. A large number of molecular clouds were identified and we search for velocity gradients in two high signal-to-noise subsamples, containing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 J. Braine , A. Hughes , E. Rosolowsky , P. Gratier , D. Colombo , S. Meidt , E. Schinnerer

We analyzed the 2.6-mm CO and 21-cm HI lines toward the Magellanic superbubble 30 Doradus C, in order to reveal the associated molecular and atomic gas. We uncovered five molecular clouds in a velocity range from 251 to 276 km s$^{-1}$…

We have used the latest HI observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Parkes telescope, to re-examine the kinematics of this dwarf, irregular galaxy. A large velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Stanimirovic , L. Staveley-Smith , P. Jones

We present sensitive and high angular resolution CO(1-0) data obtained by the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) observations toward the nearby grand-design spiral galaxy M 51. The angular resolution of 0.7"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fumi Egusa , Jin Koda , Nick Scoville