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In order to study the ISM and the interplay between the atomic and molecular components in a low-metallicity environment, we present a complete high angular and spectral resolution map and data cube of the 12CO(2-1) emission from the Local…

We calculate the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density in non-linear regime of the gravitational evolution. Under the local approximation that the evolution of cosmic fluid fields can be characterized by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

We present the first study of the relationship between the column density distribution of molecular clouds within nearby Galactic spiral arms and their evolutionary status as measured from their stellar content. We analyze a sample of 195…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 J. Abreu-Vicente , J. Kainulainen , A. Stutz , T. Henning , H. Beuther

We present an analysis comparing the properties of 45 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M33 and the atomic hydrogen (HI) with which they are associated. High-resolution VLA observations are used to measure the properties of HI in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Imara , F. Bigiel , L. Blitz

Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) as a function of environmental parameters is of fundamental importance to understand the star-formation process across the epochs. Although there exist various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Thomas G. Bisbas , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Chia-Yu Hu , Andreas Schruba

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

We present a catalogue of 453 molecular clouds in M31 extracted from CO J=1-0 data observed with CARMA using a dendrogram. Our clouds have the mean values of 2.8 km s$^{-1}$, 22.1 pc and 10$^{5.2}$ M$_\odot$ for the velocity dispersion,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-30 J. Armijos-Abendaño , S. A. Eales , M. W. L. Smith

The purpose of this work is the characterization of the radial distribution of dust, stars, gas, and star-formation rate (SFR) in a sub-sample of 18 face-on spiral galaxies extracted from the DustPedia sample. This study is performed by…

The surface density and vertical distribution of stars, stellar remnants, and gas in the solar vicinity form important ingredients for understanding the star formation history of the Galaxy as well as for inferring the local density of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Christopher F. McKee , Antonio Parravano , David J. Hollenbach

We investigate the form of the local vertical density profile of the stars in the Galactic disk, close to the Galactic plane. We use a homogeneous sample of 34000 ultracool dwarfs M7 to L2.5 that all lie within 350 pc of the plane. We fit a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-07 Stephen Warren , Saad Ahmed , Richard Laithwaite

We derive a multifractal model for the velocity probability density distribution function (PDF), which is valid from the inertial range to the viscous range. The model gives a continuous evolution of velocity PDFs from large to small…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Jens Eggers , Z. Jane Wang

Using self-gravitational hydrodynamical numerical simulations, we investigated the evolution of high-density turbulent molecular clouds swept by a colliding flow. The interaction of shock waves due to turbulence produces networks of thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazuhito Dobashi , Tomomi Shimoikura

We compare the properties of clouds in simulated M33 galaxies to those observed in the real M33. We apply a friends of friends algorithm and CPROPS to identify clouds, as well as a pixel by pixel analysis. We obtain very good agreement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 C. L. Dobbs , E. Rosolowsky , A. R. Pettitt , J. Braine , E. Corbelli , J. Sun

Aims. We use different tracers, such as Ha, ultraviolet (UV), and infrared (IR) emissions at various wavelengths, to study the dust and star-formation (SF) conditions throughout the disk of M33. Methods. We derive the radial distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Verley , E. Corbelli , C. Giovanardi , L. K. Hunt

Analytic distribution functions (DFs) for the Galactic disc are discussed. The DFs depend on action variables and their predictions for observable quantities are explored under the assumption that the motion perpendicular to the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 James Binney

The sample of 566 molecular clouds identified in the CO(2--1) IRAM survey covering the disk of M~33 is explored in detail.The clouds were found using CPROPS and were subsequently catalogued in terms of their star-forming properties as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Jonathan Braine , Erik Rosolowsky , Pierre Gratier , Edvige Corbelli , Karl Schuster

We aim to understand the physical mechanisms that drive star formation in a sample of mass-complete (>10$^{9.5}M_{\odot}$) star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at 1.2 $\leq z$ < 1.6. We selected SFGs from the COSMOS2020 catalog and applied a…

Several studies have reported a nearly linear correlation between the molecular gas and star formation rate surface density, the so-called Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) law. We aim to retrieve the KS relation for a sample of four star-forming…

We introduce the position-dependent probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed matter field as a cosmological observable. In comparison to the PDF itself, the spatial variation of the position-dependent PDF is simpler to model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

Due to our vantage point in the disk of the Galaxy, its 3D structure is not directly accessible. However, knowing the spatial distribution, e.g. of atomic and molecular hydrogen gas is of great importance for interpreting and modelling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Laurin Söding , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan