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The carbon monoxide (CO) spectral line energy distributions (SLEDs) of galaxies contain a wealth of information about conditions in their cold interstellar gas. Here we use galaxy-scale observations of the three lowest energy CO lines to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Ryan P. Keenan , Daniel P. Marrone , Garrett K. Keating

We study the angular correlation function of speckle patterns that result from multiple scattering of photons by cold atomic clouds. We show that this correlation function becomes larger than the value given by Rayleigh law for classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 O. Assaf , E. Akkermans

Complete catalogs of molecular clouds in the Milky Way allow analysis of the molecular medium and the star formation properties of the Milky Way that closely follows the method used for nearby galaxies. We explore whether the big dip in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Neal J. Evans , Davide Elia , Keith Hawkins , Sophia Stuber , Jiayi Sun

The role of large-scale stellar feedback in the formation of molecular clouds has been investigated observationally by examining the relationship between HI and 12CO(J=1-0) in supershells. Detailed parsec-resolution case studies of two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 J. R. Dawson , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , Y. Fukui , J. Dickey , T. Wong , A. Hughes , A. Kawamura

Individual stars in the Milky Way (MW) and its satellites have been shown to trace galaxy stellar mass dependent sequences in the $\alpha$-abundance ([$\alpha$/Fe]) vs metallicity ([Fe/H]) plane. Testing the universality of such sequences…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Souradeep Bhattacharya , Magda Arnaboldi , Chiaki Kobayashi , Ortwin Gerhard , Kanak Saha

We present Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA) millimeter interferometer observations of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) along a spiral arm in M31. The observations consist of a survey using the compact configuration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Rosolowsky

Galaxy interactions are often accompanied by an enhanced star formation rate (SFR). Since molecular gas is essential for star formation, it is vital to establish whether, and by how much, galaxy interactions affect the molecular gas…

Of all the factors that influence star formation, magnetic fields are perhaps the least well understood. The goal of this paper is to characterize the 3D magnetic field properties of nearby molecular clouds through various methods of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-13 Colin H. Sullivan , Laura Fissel , Patrick King , Che-Yu Chen , Zhi-Yun Li , Juan Soler

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been a fundamental tool to characterize many-body effects in condensed matter systems, from extended solids to quantum dots. STM of molecules decoupled from the supporting conductive substrate has the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 Dimitrios Toroz , Massimo Rontani , Stefano Corni

Astrochemistry has been widely developed as a power tool to probe physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) in various conditions of the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy, and in near and distant galaxies. Most current studies conventionally…

We present static and dynamic properties of molecular correlation functions S_{lmn,l'm'n'}(q,t) in a simulated supercooled liquid of water molecules, as a preliminary effort in the direction of solving the molecular mode coupling theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Fabbian , A. Latz , R. Schilling , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , C. Theis

The Columbia - U. de Chile CO Survey of the Southern Milky Way is used for separating the CO(1-0) emission of the fourth Galactic quadrant within the solar circle into its dominant components, giant molecular clouds (GMCs). After the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Garcia , L. Bronfman , L. Nyman , T. M. Dame

In previous contributions, we have presented an analytical model describing the evolution of molecular clouds (MCs) undergoing hierarchical gravitational contraction. The cloud's evolution is characterized by an initial increase in its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-18 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés , Roberto Galván-Madrid , Jan Forbrich

This work reports the discovery of cycle-to-cycle modulated spectral line and atmospheric velocity gradient variability in long-period Cepheids based on 925 high-resolution optical spectra of $\ell$ Carinae (P $\sim$ 35.5 d) recorded during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-19 Richard I. Anderson

Scene viewing is used to study attentional selection in complex but still controlled environments. One of the main observations on eye movements during scene viewing is the inhomogeneous distribution of fixation locations: While some parts…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-14 Hans A. Trukenbrod , Simon Barthelmé , Felix A. Wichmann , Ralf Engbert

Cloud-cloud collision (CCC) has been proposed as a mechanism for triggering massive star formation. Observations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies have revealed the presence of CCCs with collision velocity ($v_{\rm col}$) of 1-40 km/s,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-27 Shin Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Fumiya Maeda

Molecular line observations using a variety of tracers are often used to investigate the kinematic structure of molecular clouds. However, measurements of cloud velocity dispersions with different lines, even in the same region, often yield…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Yuxuan Yuan , Mark R. Krumholz , Blakesley Burkhart

Since the discovery of a broad distribution of very high energy (VHE; >0.1 TeV) gamma-rays in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Galaxy in 2006 by the HESS collaboration, the correlation of this emission with the integrated intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-04 David I. Jones , Michael Burton , Paul Jones , Andrew Walsh , Gavin Rowell , Felix Aharonian

Molecular clouds (MC) are structures of dense gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), that extend from ten to a few hundred parsecs and form the main gas reservoir available for star formation. Hydrodynamical simulations of varying complexity…

Milky Way analogues (MWAs) have long been studied by astronomers to place our Galaxy within an extragalactic context. With the power of cosmological simulations, we are now able to not only characterize MWAs today, but also watch as they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-15 Alicia M. Savelli , Joshua S. Speagle , J. Ted Mackereth , Norman Murray , Kartheik G. Iyer