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Aims. We observe the dense gas tracer CS in two nearby starburst galaxies to determine how the conditions of the dense gas varies across the circumnuclear regions in starburst galaxies. Methods. Using the IRAM-30m telescope, we mapped the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 G. Kelly , S. Viti , E. Bayet , R. Aladro , J. Yates

We present the first results from the EMPIRE survey, an IRAM large program that is mapping tracers of high density molecular gas across the disks of nine nearby star-forming galaxies. Here, we present new maps of the 3-mm transitions of…

We use numerical simulations of isolated galaxies to study the effects of stellar feedback on the formation and evolution of giant star-forming gas 'clumps' in high-redshift, gas-rich galaxies. Such galactic disks are unstable to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert , Lars Hernquist

We present dense-gas--tracing molecular observations of six resolved Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Using the NOEMA interferometer, we observed the transitions of HCN(1-0), HCO$^+$(1-0), and HNC(1-0), as well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-25 Jan Forbrich , Charles J. Lada , Jérôme Pety , Glen Petitpas

We report HCN J=4-3, HCO+ J=4-3, and CS J=7-6 observations in 20 nearby star-forming galaxies with the Acatama Pathfinder EXperiment 12-m telescope. Combined with 4 HCN, 3 HCO+, and 4 CS detections in literature, we probe the empirical link…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhi-Yu Zhang , Yu Gao , Christian Henkel , Yinghe Zhao , Junzhi Wang , Karl M. Menten , Rolf Guesten

We study the properties of simulated high-redshift galaxies using cosmological N-body/gasdynamical runs from the OverWhelmingly Large Simulations (OWLS) project. The runs contrast several feedback implementations of varying effectiveness:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel , C. M. Booth

We present the first high angular resolution study of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300, based on observations from the Submillimeter Array (SMA). We target eleven 500 pc-sized regions of active star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-28 Christopher Faesi , Charles Lada , Jan Forbrich

Dense gas is important for galaxy evolution and star formation. Optically-thin dense-gas tracers, such as isotopologues of HCN, HCO+, etc., are very helpful to diagnose excitation conditions of dense molecular gas. However, previous studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Fei Li , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Junzhi Wang , Feng Gao , Shanghuo Li , Jing Zhou , Yichen Sun , Ziyi Guo , Shu Liu

We present a catalogue of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in M33, extracted from cold dust continuum emission. Our GMCs are identified by computing dendrograms. We measure the spatial distribution of these clouds, and characterise their dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-31 Thomas G. Williams , Walter K. Gear , Matthew W. L. Smith

Recent advances in identifying giant molecular filaments in galactic surveys allow us to study the interstellar material and its dense, potentially star forming phase on scales comparable to resolved extragalactic clouds. Two large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 O. Feher , S. E. Ragan , F. D. Priestley , P. C. Clark , T. J. T. Moore

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

Hydrodynamic simulations have proposed that stellar feedback and bursty star-formation can produce dark matter cores in low-mass galaxies. A key prediction is that feedback-driven gas outflow and inflow cycles can lead to ``breathing…

We use 3D hydrodynamical models to investigate the effects of massive star feedback from winds and supernovae on inhomogeneous molecular material left over from the formation of a massive stellar cluster. We simulate the interaction of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Rogers , J. M. Pittard

We present the Green Bank 100m Telescope (GBT) mapping observations of CS 1-0, and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) 157-pointings mosaic of the 0.86 mm dust continuum emission as well as several warm and dense gas tracers, in the central ~20…

It remains a major challenge to derive a theory of cloud-scale ($\lesssim100$ pc) star formation and feedback, describing how galaxies convert gas into stars as a function of the galactic environment. Progress has been hampered by a lack of…

We introduce a new set of zoom-in cosmological simulations with sub-pc resolution, intended to model extremely faint, highly magnified star-forming stellar clumps, detected at z=6.14 thanks to gravitational lensing. The simulations include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 F. Calura , A. Lupi , J. Rosdahl , E. Vanzella , M. Meneghetti , P. Rosati , E. Vesperini , E. Lacchin , R. Pascale , R. Gilli

We use nine different galaxy formation scenarios in ten cosmological simulation boxes from the EAGLE suite of {\Lambda}CDM hydrodynamical simulations to assess the impact of feedback mechanisms in galaxy formation and compare these to…

We present a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) catalog toward M33, containing 71 GMCs in total, based on wide field and high sensitivity CO(J=3-2) observations with a spatial resolution of 100 pc using the ASTE 10 m telescope. Employing archival…

Dense, star-forming gas is believed to form at the stagnation points of large-scale ISM flows, but observational examples of this process in action are rare. We here present a giant molecular cloud (GMC) sandwiched between two colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. R. Dawson , E. Ntormousi , Y. Fukui , T. Hayakawa , K. Fierlinger

We study the impact of stellar feedback in shaping the density and velocity structure of neutral hydrogen (HI) in disc galaxies. For our analysis, we carry out $\sim 4.6$pc resolution $N$-body+adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Kearn Grisdale , Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Florent Renaud , Justin I. Read