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This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

The scaling relations and the star formation laws for molecular cloud complexes in the Milky Way is investigated. We compare their masses $M_{\rm gas}$, mass surface densities $\Sigma_{M_{\rm gas}}$, radii $R$, velocity dispersions…

We compare the observational properties between $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O and summarize the observational parameters based on 7069 clouds sample from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) CO survey in a section of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-22 Chen Wang , Haoran Feng , Ji Yang , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Qing-Zeng Yan , Fujun Du , Yuehui Ma , Jiajun Cai

We compute the star formation rate (SFR) in molecular clouds (MCs) that originate {\it ab initio} in a new, higher-resolution simulation of supernova-driven turbulence. Because of the large number of well-resolved clouds with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund , Søren Frimann

We present new observations of a 2' field in the north-eastern spiral arm of M31. In the 0.8 x 3.6 kpc mosaicked region, we have detected six distinct, large complexes of molecular gas, most of which lie along the spiral arm dust lane or in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartik Sheth , Stuart N. Vogel , Christine D. Wilson , T. M. Dame

The star formation efficiency (SFE) measures the proportion of molecular gas converted into stars, while the star formation rate (SFR) indicates the rate at which gas is transformed into stars. Here we propose such a model in the framework…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 An-Xu Luo , Hong-Li Liu , Jin-Zeng Li

We have extensively mapped a sample of dense molecular clouds (L1512, TMC-1C, L1262, Per 7, L1389, L1251E) in lines of HC3N, CH3OH, SO and C^{18}O. We demonstrate that a high degree of chemical differentiation is present in all of the…

Using hydrodynamical simulations of entire galactic discs similar to the Milky Way, reaching 4.6pc resolution, we study the origins of observed physical properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We find that efficient stellar feedback is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Kearn Grisdale , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud , Alessandro B. Romeo

We run numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs), adopting properties similar to those found in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. For this, we employ the moving mesh code Arepo and perform simulations which account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Sarah E. Ragan , Ralf S. Klessen

We study the relationship between the [CII] emission and the star formation rate (SFR) in the Galactic plane and separate the relationship of different ISM phases to the SFR. We compare these relationships to those in external galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-05 Jorge L. Pineda , William D. Langer , Paul F. Goldsmith

We introduce a two-particle correlation function (2PCF) for the Milky Way, constructed to probe spatial correlations in the orthogonal directions of the stellar disk in the Galactic cylindrical coordinates of $R$, $\phi$, and $z$. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

The chemical abundances of Milky Way's satellites reflect their star formation histories (SFHs), yet, due to the difficulty of determining the ages of old stars, the SFHs of most satellites are poorly measured. Ongoing and upcoming surveys…

Molecular clouds (MCs) are the birthplaces of new stars in galaxies. A key component of MCs are photodissociation regions (PDRs), where far-ultraviolet radiation plays a crucial role in determining the gas's physical and chemical state.…

To complement the optical absorption-line survey of diffuse molecular gas in Paper I, we obtained and analyzed far ultraviolet H$_2$ and CO data on lines of sight toward stars in Cep OB2 and Cep OB3. Possible correlations between column…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Pan , S. R. Federman , Y. Sheffer , B. -G. Andersson

Molecular clouds are active sites of star formation in galaxies, and their formation and evolution are largely affected by stellar feedback. This includes outflows and winds from newly formed stars, radiation from young clusters, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 K. R. Neralwar , D. Colombo , S. Offner , A. Karska , M. Figueira , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , J. S. Urquhart , A. Duarte-Cabral

We investigate physical properties of molecular clouds in disc galaxies with different morphology: a galaxy without prominent structure, a spiral barred galaxy and a galaxy with flocculent structure. Our $N$-body/hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , D. A. Ladeyschikov , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

Studies both of entire galaxies and of local Galactic star formation indicate a dependency of a molecular cloud's star formation rate (SFR) on its dense gas mass. In external galaxies, such measurements are derived from HCN(1-0)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 S. Viaene , J. Forbrich , J. Fritz

We propose a new method for measuring the spatial density distribution of the stellar halo of the Milky Way. Our method is based on a pairwise statistic of the distribution of stars on the sky, the angular two-point correlation function…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Anda Chen , Zhigang Li , Yougang Wang , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Richard J. Long

We employ the Delta-variance analysis and study the turbulent gas dynamics of simulated molecular clouds (MCs). Our models account for a simplified treatment of time-dependent chemistry and the non-isothermal nature of the gas. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Erik Bertram , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover

Velocity fields of molecular clouds (MCs) can provide crucial information on the merger and split between clouds, as well as their internal kinematics and maintenance, energy injection and redistribution, even star formation within clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Shaobo Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Chen , Qing-Zeng Yan , Min Fang , Fujun Du , Yan Sun , Hongchi Wang , Ye Xu