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We dendrogram the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map, leveraging its $\sim 1$ pc spatial resolution to produce a uniform catalog of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood. Using accurate distances, we measure the properties of 65 clouds in…

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The requirement that their gravitational binding self-energy density must at least equal the background repulsive dark energy density for large scale cosmic structures implies a mass-radius relation of M/R^2 ~ 1g/cm^2, as pointed out…

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The galaxy size-luminosity and size-stellar mass relations are important constraints on the galactic baryon cycle of gas accretion, star formation, and feedback. There are conflicting claims in the literature regarding how environment…

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Three-dimensional fractal models on grids of 200**3 pixels are generated from the inverse Fourier transform of noise with a power law cutoff, exponentiated to give a log normal distribution of density. The fractals are clipped at various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. G. Elmegreen

The mass-size relation is a fundamental galaxy scaling law closely tied to galaxy formation and evolution. Using added-value products of the Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY (CAVITY) and SDSS DR16 images, we examine the effect…

We study the physical properties derived from interstellar cloud complexes having a fractal structure. We first generate fractal clouds with a given fractal dimension and associate each clump with a maximum in the resulting density field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Enrique Perez

The shape of the cold interstellar molecular gas is determined by several processes, including self-gravity, tidal force, turbulence, magnetic field, and galactic shear. Based on the 3D dust extinction map derived by Vergely et al., we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-27 Yi-Heng Xie , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen

We investigate the structure of the molecular cloud complexes (MCCs) as a group of several giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Galaxy. Then, we find that the mass-size relation which has been reported for the GMCs establishes well even for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. K. Inoue , H. Kamaya

By means of high-resolution N-body simulations in a LambdaCDM cosmology, we verify that scaling relations similar to those observed for nearby galaxy clusters are also defined by their dark matter hosts; the slopes, however, are not the…

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Motivated by the significant overdensity of background bright quasars recently detected behind the foreground clusters of galaxies on scale of $10$ arcminutes, we have investigated the possibility of attributing the quasar-cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang

Several recent studies show that bright, intermediate and high redshift optically and radio selected QSOs are positively correlated with nearby galaxies on a range of angular scales up to a degree. Obscuration by unevenly distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Liliya L. R. Williams

The properties of clusters of galaxies offer key insights into the assembly process of structure in the universe. Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation in a hierarchical, dark matter dominated universe suggest that galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julia M. Comerford , Priyamvada Natarajan

We use a new contour-based map analysis technique to measure the mass and size of molecular cloud fragments continuously over a wide range of spatial scales (0.05 < r / pc < 10), i.e., from the scale of dense cores to those of entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Kauffmann , T. Pillai , R. Shetty , P. C. Myers , A. A. Goodman

Stars form within molecular clouds, so characterizing the physical states of molecular clouds is key in understanding the process of star formation. Cloud structure and stability is frequently assessed using metrics including the virial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Theo J. O'Neill , Remy Indebetouw , Alberto D. Bolatto , Suzanne C. Madden , Tony Wong

We present the first scaling relation between weak-lensing galaxy cluster mass, $M_{WL}$, and near-infrared luminosity, $L_K$. Our results are based on 17 clusters observed with wide-field instruments on Subaru, the United Kingdom Infrared…

This article presents a statistical-mechanical treatment of a relationship (the force equation) between the gravitational potential for two particles and the correlation functions in a relaxed distribution of particles with different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Martin Lopez Corredoira

We report the discovery and characterization of a power law correlation between the local surface densities of Spitzer-identified, dusty young stellar objects and the column density of gas (as traced by near-IR extinction) in eight…

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The mass function of galaxies and clusters of galaxies can be derived observationally based on different types of observations. In this study we test if these observations can be combined to a consistent picture which is also in accord with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-24 Masataka Fukugita , Hans Böhringer

It was found that approximately constant column densities of giant molecular clouds (Larson's low) can be explained as cloud existence condition in external (galactic) gravitational field. This condition can be also applied to objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Zaharow

We simulated both the matter and light (galaxy) distributions in a wedge of the universe and calculated the gravitational lensing magnification caused by the mass along the line of sight of galaxies and galaxy groups identified in sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio C. C. Guimarães , Adam D. Myers , Tom Shanks