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We resolve 182 individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs) larger than 2.5 $\times$ 10$^{5}$ \Msun in the inner disks of five large nearby spiral galaxies (NGC 2403, NGC 3031, NGC 4736, NGC 4826, and NGC 6946) to create the largest such sample…

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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-16 Kanako Narita , Seiichi Sakamoto , Jin Koda , Yuki Yoshimura , Kotaro Kohno

The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tomoharu Oka

We have detected over 400 HI clouds in the lower halo of the Galaxy within the pilot region of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), a region of the fourth quadrant that spans 18 degrees in longitude, 40 degrees in latitude and is centered on…

Using archival data, we have made an HI absorption study of the 7$^\prime$ halo surrounding the Sgr A complex, observed towards the Galactic centre (GC) region. We find strong HI absorption near velocities of $-$53 km s$^{-1}$, which is due…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Debangan Maji , Subhashis Roy

In this paper we present a catalogue of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in the Andromeda (M31) galaxy extracted from the Hershel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA) dataset. GMCs are identified from the Herschel maps using a…

In the J, H, and Ks bands survey of the the Galactic Center region over an area of 2deg x 5deg, we have found many dark clouds, among which a distinguished chain of dark clouds can be identified with a quiescent CO cloud. The distances of…

ALMA observations of the Galactic center with spatial resolution $2.61"\times0.97"$ resulted in the detection of 11 SiO (5-4) clumps of molecular gas within 0.6pc (15$"$) of Sgr A*, interior to the 2-pc circumnuclear molecular ring. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Royster , M. Wardle , R. Arendt , H. Bushouse , D. C. Lis , M. W. Pound , D. A. Roberts , B. Whitney , A. Wootten

Molecular gas is crucial to understanding star formation and galaxy evolution, but the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) have rarely been studied. Here, we present analyses of the spatially resolved GMCs of the…

We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and the mass-luminosity relations of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alberto D. Bolatto , Adam K. Leroy , Erik Rosolowsky , Fabian Walter , Leo Blitz

We present CO(1-0), CO(3-2), and CO(7-6) observations using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of the z=2.8 sub-millimeter galaxy SMM J02399-0136. This was the first submillimeter-selected galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 David T. Frayer , Ronald J. Maddalena , R. J. Ivison , Ian Smail , Andrew W. Blain , Paul Vanden Bout

We present a high spatial resolution ($\approx 20$ pc) of $^{12}$CO($2-1$) observations of the lenticular galaxy NGC4526. We identify 103 resolved Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) and measure their properties: size $R$, velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-13 Dyas Utomo , Leo Blitz , Timothy Davis , Erik Rosolowsky , Martin Bureau , Michele Cappellari , Marc Sarzi

We present a method to derive positions of molecular clouds along the lines of sight from a quantitative comparison between 2.6 mm CO emission lines and 18 cm OH absorption lines, and apply it to the central kiloparsecs of the Milky Way.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Sawada , T. Hasegawa , T. Handa , R. J. Cohen

Various scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of the Galactic high-velocity clouds, predicting different distances and implying widely varying properties for the Galaxy's gaseous halo. To eliminate the difficulties of studying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric D. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

We present results from a survey of a 1300 arcmin^2 region of the Orion B South molecular cloud, including NGC 2024, NGC 2023, and the Horsehead Nebula (B33), obtained using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Doug Johnstone , Henry Matthews , George F. Mitchell

We present subarcsecond 1.3 mm continuum ALMA observations towards the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 South (OMC-1S) region, down to a spatial resolution of 74 AU, which reveal a total of 31 continuum sources. We also present subarcsecond 7 mm…

Clouds more massive than about $10^5$ M$_\odot$ are potential sites of massive cluster formation. Studying the properties of such clouds in the early stages of their evolution offers an opportunity to test various cluster formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-10 Vineet Rawat , M. R. Samal , D. L. Walker , A. Zavagno , A. Tej , G. Marton , D. K. Ojha , Davide Elia , W. P. Chen , J. Jose , C Eswaraiah

We use high spatial resolution (~7pc) CARMA observations to derive detailed properties for 8 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) at a galactocentric radius corresponding to approximately two CO scale lengths, or ~0.5 optical radii (r25), in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Bigiel , A. Bolatto , A. Leroy , L. Blitz , F. Walter , E. Rosolowsky , L. Lopez , R. Plambeck

We present maps and a catalogue containing the J=1-0 12CO parameters of 29 individual molecular clouds in the second-brightest LMC star formation complex, N11. In the southwestern part of N11, molecular clouds occur in a ring or shell…

We study Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) environments surrounding 10 Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs), using $^{13}$CO(1-0) emission from the Galactic Ring Survey. We measure physical properties of these IRDCs/GMCs on a range of scales extending to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Audra K. Hernandez , Jonathan C. Tan