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In this paper, we investigate the conditions for the HI-to-H$_{2}$ transition in the solar neighborhood by analyzing HI emission and absorption measurements toward 58 Galactic lines of sight (LOSs) along with $^{12}$CO(1$-$0) (CO) and dust…

We performed a search of star-forming sites influenced by external factors, such as SNRs, HII regions, and cloud-cloud collisions, to understand the star-forming activity in the Galactic center region using the NRO Galactic Center Survey in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Masato Tsuboi , Atsushi Miyazaki , Kenta Uehara

Molecular gas is the key ingredient of the star formation cycle, and tracing its dependencies on other galaxy properties is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. In this work, we explore the relation between the different phases of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Francesco Salvestrini , Simone Bianchi , Edvige Corbelli

Molecular outflows contributing to the matter cycle of star forming galaxies are now observed in small and large systems at low and high redshift. Their physical origin is still unclear. In most theoretical studies only warm ionised/neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Thomas Berlok

This paper is a numerical study of the condensation of the warm neutral medium (WNM) into cold neutral medium (CNM) structures under the effect of turbulence and thermal instability. Using low resolution simulations we explored the impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-09 E. Saury , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , W. Schmidt

In this study, we analyze molecular gas formation in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) clouds using the latest CO data obtained from the four-beam receiver system on a 45-m telescope (FOREST) unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the…

The main goal of this analysis is to present a new method to estimate the physical properties of diffuse cloud of atomic hydrogen observed at high Galactic latitude. This method, based on a comparison of the observations with fractional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Peter G. Martin

In this review, I discuss recent detailed studies of individual molecular clouds in M33 in higher rotational transitions of CO, 13CO, and the fine structure line of atomic carbon. These data reveal that the temperature and density of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Wilson

Context: How do molecular clouds form out of the atomic phase? And what are the relative fractions of carbon in the ionized, atomic and molecular phase? These are questions at the heart of cloud and star formation. Methods: Using multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-11 H. Beuther , S. E. Ragan , V. Ossenkopf , S. Glover , Th. Henning , H. Linz , M. Nielbock , O. Krause , J. Stutzki , P. Schilke , R. Guesten

Complex turbulent motions of magnetized gas are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. The source of this turbulence, however, is still poorly understood. Previous work suggests that compression caused by supernova shockwaves, gravity, or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 Ankush Mandal , Christoph Federrath , Bastian Körtgen

Recent molecular line observations with ALMA and NOEMA in several Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) have revealed the large-scale filamentary structure at the center of cool core clusters. These filaments extend over 20-100kpc, they are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Francoise Combes

Context. A large fraction of the interstellar medium can be characterized as a multiphase medium. The neutral hydrogen gas is bistable with a cold and warm neutral medium (CNM and WNM respectively) but there is evidence for an additional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio between the solenoidal and compressive modes of turbulence plays…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki , Hiroki Nakatsugawa

The Galactic HII region G353.2+0.9 is excited by the massive open cluster Pismis-24. By analyzing (sub-)mm molecular-line and -continuum we study the detailed morphology of the gas and dust, as well as their physical parameters and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Giannetti , J. Brand , F. Massi , A. Tieftrunk , M. T. Beltran

We apply gravity-based and density-based methods to identify clouds in numerical simulations of the star-forming, three-phase interstellar medium (ISM), and compare their properties and their global correlation with the star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 S. Alwin Mao , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) harbor the earliest phases of massive star formation, and many of the compact cores in IRDCs, traced by millimeter continuum or by molecular emission in high critical density lines, host massive young stellar…

We present a comprehensive investigation of HI (super)clouds, molecular clouds (MCs), and star formation in the Carina spiral arm of the outer Galaxy. Utilizing HI4PI and CfA CO survey data, we identify HI clouds and MCs based on the ($l$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Geumsook Park , Bon-Chul Koo , Kee-Tae Kim , Bruce Elmegreen

The C$^{+}$ ion is an important coolant of interstellar gas, and so the [CII] fine structure line is frequently observed in the interstellar medium. However, the physical and chemical properties of the [CII]-emitting gas are still unclear.…

Modern observations of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies detect a variety of atomic and molecular species. The goal is to connect these observations to the astrochemical properties of the ISM. 3D hydro-chemical simulations attempt…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas G. Bisbas , Andreas Schruba , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

We performed one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with detailed cooling, heating and chemical processes to examine the thermal stability of shocked gas in cold neutral medium (CNM) and molecular clouds. We find that both CNM and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuhiro Aota , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yuri Aikawa