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Gas kinematics are an important part of the planet formation process. Turbulence influences planetesimal growth and migration from the scale of sub-micron dust grains through gas-giant planets. Radio observations of resolved molecular line…

HNC and HCN, typically used as dense gas tracers in molecular clouds, are a pair of isomers that have great potential as a temperature probe because of temperature dependent, isomer-specific formation and destruction pathways. Previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Dawn Graninger , Eric Herbst , Karin I. Oberg , Anton I. Vasyunin

The $^{13}$CO molecule is often used as a column density tracer in regions where the $^{12}$CO emission saturates. The $^{13}$CO column density is then related to that of $^{12}$CO by a uniform isotopic ratio. A similar approximation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-25 László Szűcs , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) in the Galactic center have garnered significant attention due to their mysterious formation, potentially linked to starburst events or supermassive black hole activity in the region. However, it remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Mengfei Zhang , Miao Li , Peixin Zhu

We combine the galaxy formation model GALFORM with the Photon Dominated Region code UCL_PDR to study the emission from the rotational transitions of 12CO (CO) in galaxies from z=0 to z=6 in the Lambda CDM framework. GALFORM is used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Claudia del P. Lagos , Estelle Bayet , Carlton M. Baugh , Cedric G. Lacey , Tom Bell , Nikolaos Fanidakis , James Geach

We investigated the chemical evolutions of gas phase and grain surface species across the Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1) filament from translucent phase to dense phase. By comparing observations with modeling results from an up-to-date…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-11 Long-Fei Chen , Di Li , Donghui Quan , Xia Zhang , Qiang Chang , Xiaohu Li , Lin Xiao

Complex organic molecules (COMs) have been identified in different environments in star- forming regions. Laboratory studies show that COMs form in the solid state, on icy grains, typically following a non-energetic (atom-addition) or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-23 K. -J. Chuang , G. Fedoseev , D. Qasim , S. Ioppolo , E. F. van Dishoeck , H. Linnartz

Molecular clouds are active sites of star formation in galaxies, and their formation and evolution are largely affected by stellar feedback. This includes outflows and winds from newly formed stars, radiation from young clusters, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 K. R. Neralwar , D. Colombo , S. Offner , A. Karska , M. Figueira , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , J. S. Urquhart , A. Duarte-Cabral

We present new observations of HCN and HCO+in the circumnuclear disk (CND) of the Galaxy, obtained with the APEX telescope. We have mapped emission in rotational lines of HCN J = 3-2, 4-3, and 8-7, as well as HCO+ J = 3-2, 4-3, and 9-8. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Elisabeth A. C. Mills , Rolf Güsten , Miguel A. Requena Torres , Mark R. Morris

Trends observed in galaxies, such as the Gao \& Solomon relation, suggest a linear relation between the star formation rate and the mass of dense gas available for star formation. Validation of such relations requires the establishment of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Jens Kauffmann , Paul F. Goldsmith , Gary Melnick , Volker Tolls , Andres Guzman , Karl M. Menten

We use detailed numerical simulations of the coupled chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution of the gas in a turbulent molecular cloud to study the usefulness of the [CI] 609 micron and 370 micron fine structure emission lines as tracers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Milica Micic , Faviola Molina

Contemporary galactic star formation occurs predominantly within gravitationally unstable, cold, dense molecular gas within supersonic, turbulent, magnetized giant molecular clouds (GMCs). Significantly, because the chemical evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-11 Avinash Kumar , Robert T. Fisher

Aims. We model a diffuse molecular cloud present along the line of sight to the star HD 102065. We compare our modeling with observations to test our understanding of physical conditions and chemistry in diffuse molecular clouds. Methods.…

The evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main sites of high-mass star formation, is an essential process to unravel the galaxy evolution. Using a GMC catalogue of M33 from ALMA-ACA survey, we classified 848 GMCs into three types…

We observed HCO$^+$ $J=1-0$ and H$^{13}$CO$^+$ $J=1-0$ emission towards the five protoplanetary disks around IM Lup, GM Aur, AS 209, HD 163296, and MWC 480 as part of the MAPS project. HCO$^+$ is detected and mapped at…

To study the high-transition dense-gas tracers and their relationships to the star formation of the inner $\sim$ 2 kpc circumnuclear region of NGC253, we present HCN $J=4-3$ and HCO$^+ J=4-3$ maps obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell…

In the Galactic fountain scenario, supernovae and/or stellar winds propel material into the Galactic halo. As the material cools, it condenses into clouds. By using FLASH three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we model and study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kyujin Kwak , Robin L. Shelton , Elizabeth A. Raley

We present numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs) with self-consistent CO gas-phase and isotope chemistry in various environments. The simulations are post-processed with a line radiative transfer code to obtain $^{12}$CO and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-25 László Szűcs , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular CloudS (GEMS) is an IRAM 30m Large Program designed to estimate the S, C, N, and O depletions and gas ionization degree, X(e-), in a set of star-forming filaments of Taurus, Perseus and Orion. Our…

We present two sets of grid-based hydrodynamical simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the diffuse, hot Galactic halo. These HI clouds have been suggested to provide fuel for ongoing star formation in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Fabian Heitsch , Mary E. Putman