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All stars are born in molecular clouds, and most in giant molecular clouds (GMCs), which thus set the star formation activity of galaxies. We first review their observed properties, including measures of mass surface density, Sigma, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Jonathan C. Tan , Suzanne N. Shaske , Sven Van Loo

Energetic feedback from star clusters plays a pivotal role in shaping the dynamical evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To study the effects of stellar feedback on the star formation efficiency of the clouds and the dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Hui Li , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We investigate the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ($M_*$) in sub-galactic ($\sim 1$kpc) scale of 93 local ($0.01<z<0.02$) massive ($M_*>10^{10.5}M_{\odot}$) spiral galaxies. To derive spatially-resolved SFR and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Abdurro'uf , Masayuki Akiyama

The Star-Forming Main Sequence (SFMS) serves as a critical framework for understanding galaxy evolution, highlighting the relationship between star formation rates (SFR) and stellar masses M_* across cosmic time. Despite its significance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhicheng He , Enci Wang , Luis C. Ho , Huiyuan Wang , Yong Shi , Xu Kong , Tinggui Wang

We use global MHD galaxy simulations to investigate the effects of spiral arms on the evolution of magnetic fields and star formation within a self-regulated interstellar medium (ISM). The same galaxy is simulated twice: once with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Hector Robinson , James Wadsley , J. A. Sellwood , Ralph E. Pudritz

We investigate the influence of stellar bulges on the star formation and morphology of disc galaxies that suffer from ram pressure. Several tree-SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations have been carried out to study the dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Dominik Steinhauser , Markus Haider , Wolfgang Kapferer , Sabine Schindler

Observations indicate that young massive star clusters in spiral and dwarf galaxies follow a relation between luminosity of the brightest young cluster and the star-formation rate (SFR) of the host galaxy, in the sense that higher SFRs lead…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Weidner , P. Kroupa , S. S. Larsen

We combine Spitzer 24micron observations with data from the COMBO-17 survey for ~15,000 0.2<z<1 galaxies to determine how the average star formation rates (SFR) have evolved for galaxy sub-populations of different stellar masses. In the…

We analyzed 17 galaxy clusters, and investigated, for the first time, the dependence of the SFR and sSFR as a function of projected distance (as a proxy for environment) and stellar mass for cluster galaxies in an intermediate-to-high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-01 Tatiana F. Lagana , M. P. ulmer

We present a comprehensive study of the relationship between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M_*) from z = 0.1 to z = 4 using a mass-complete sample of approximately 290,000 galaxies from the COSMOS2020 catalog. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 Kaimin He , Ke Shi , Jun Toshikawa , Xianzhong Zheng , Xiaopeng You

(Abridged) By means of high-resolution cosmological simulations in the context of the LCDM scenario, the specific star formation rate (SSFR=SFR/Ms, Ms is the stellar mass)--Ms and stellar mass fraction (Fs=Ms/Mh, Mh is the halo mass)--Ms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colín , A. González-Samaniego , O. Valenzuela , C. Firmani , H. Velázquez , D. Ceverino

We investigate star formation at very early evolutionary phases in five massive clouds in the inner 500 pc of the Galaxy, the Central Molecular Zone. Using interferometer observations of H$_2$O masers and ultra-compact H II regions, we find…

Galaxies form and evolve within the diverse environments of the cosmic web. However, disentangling the effects of internal properties, local environments, and large-scale structures (LSS) on galaxy evolution involvessignificant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Stefano Zarattini , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri

Using a simple model of molecular cloud evolution, we have quantitatively estimated the change of star formation rate (SFR) of a disk galaxy falling radially into the potential well of a cluster of galaxies. The SFR is affected by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yutaka Fujita , Masahiro Nagashima

We examine the growth of the stellar content of galaxies from z=3-0 in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations incorporating parameterised galactic outflows. Without outflows, galaxies overproduce stellar masses (M*) and star formation rates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Kristian Finlator

We study galaxy super-winds driven in major mergers, using pc-resolution simulations with detailed models for stellar feedback that can self-consistently follow the formation/destruction of GMCs and generation of winds. The models include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Lars Hernquist , Desika Narayanan , Christopher C. Hayward

We present results of our 1.4 GHz image stacking analysis of mass-selected galaxies in the COSMOS field. From the resulting median radio continuum flux density we have determined the evolution of the average star formation rate (SFR) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Alexander Karim , Eva Schinnerer , the VLA-COSMOS , COSMOS collaborations

We study the global star-formation rate (SFR) vs. stellar mass (M$_*$) correlation, and the spatially-resolved SFR surface density ($\Sigma_{SFR}$) vs. stellar mass surface density (\Sm) correlation, in a sample of $\sim2,000$ galaxies from…

We investigate the triggering of star formation in clouds that form in Galactic scale flows as the ISM passes through spiral shocks. We use the Lagrangian nature of SPH simulations to trace how the star forming gas is gathered into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-08 R. Smilgys , I. A. Bonnell

(Abridged) We present a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between star formation rate surface density (SFR SD) and gas surface density (gas SD) at sub-kpc resolution in a sample of 18 nearby galaxies. We use high resolution HI data…