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We present MUSE integral field data of two HII region complexes in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), N44 and N180. Both regions consist of a main superbubble and a number of smaller, more compact HII regions that formed on the edge of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 A. F. McLeod , J. E. Dale , C. J. Evans , A. Ginsburg , J. M. D. Kruijssen , E. W. Pellegrini , S. K. Ramsay , L. Testi

We present 74 MHz radio continuum observations of the Galactic center region. These measurements show nonthermal radio emission arising from molecular clouds that is unaffected by free-free absorption along the line of sight. We focus on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , D. Lis , S. Viti , C. Brogan , E. Chambers , M. Pound , M. Rickert

We report the results obtained from a multi-wavelength study of the HII region, G18.148$-$0.283, using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at 1350 MHz along with other archival data. In addition to the radio continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-28 Jyotirmoy Dey , Jagadheep D. Pandian , Dharam Vir Lal

The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs; $\sim$100pc), play a major role in governing galaxy evolution. Measuring the time-scales of…

We are studying the impact of HII regions on star formation in their associated molecular clouds. In this paper we present JCMT RxA molecular line observations of S175 and environs. This is the first within a sample of ten HII regions and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mohaddesseh Azimlu , Michel Fich , Carolyn McCoey

Dynamical expansion of H II regions around star clusters plays a key role in dispersing the surrounding dense gas and therefore in limiting the efficiency of star formation in molecular clouds. We use a semi-analytic method and numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

Molecular clouds interacting with supernova remnants may be subject to a greatly enhanced irradiation by cosmic rays produced at the shocked interface between the ejecta and the molecular gas. Over the past decade, broad-band observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Fatuzzo , F. C. Adams , F. Melia

We present hydrodynamic simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the hot, tenuous medium in the Galactic halo. A suite of models was created using the FLASH hydrodynamics code, sampling various cloud sizes, densities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kyujin Kwak , David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton

(Abridged) Aims. We intend to derive statistical properties of stochastic gas motion inside the dense low mass star forming molecular cores traced by NH3(1,1) and (2,2) emission lines. Methods. We use the spatial two-point autocorrelation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. A. Levshakov , C. Henkel , D. Reimers , M. Wang

Recent analyses of Gaia data have provided direct evidence that most young stellar clusters are in a state of expansion, with velocities of the order of ~0.5 km/s. Traditionally, expanding young clusters have been pictured as entities that…

The fine-structure line of [OI] at 63micron is an important diagnostic tool in different fields of astrophysics. However, our knowledge of this line relies on observations with low spectral resolution, and the real contribution of each…

We study star cluster formation in various environments with different metallicities and column densities by performing a suite of three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We find that the photoionization feedback from massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-25 Hajime Fukushima , Hidenobu Yajima , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Omukai , Tomoaki Matsumoto

We numerically investigate the effect of feedback from the ionizing radiation heating from massive stars on the evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their star formation efficiency (SFE). We find that the star-forming regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Pedro Colin , Gilberto C. Gomez , Alan Watson

We revisit the problem of the star formation timescale and the ages of molecular clouds. The apparent overabundance of star-forming molecular clouds over clouds without active star formation has been thought to indicate that molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Konstantinos Tassis , Matthew W. Kunz

We present a study of the molecular gas and interstellar dust distribution in the environs of the HII region NGC 3503 associated with the open cluster Pis 17 with the aim of investigating the spatial distribution of the molecular gas linked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 N. U. Duronea , J. Vasquez , C. E. Cappa , M. Corti , E. M. Arnal

The star-forming activity in the HII region RCW 42 is investigated using multiple wavebands, from near-infrared to radio wavelengths. Located at a distance of 5.8 kpc, this southern region has a bolometric luminosity of 1.8 $\times$ 10$^6$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Vipin Kumar , S. Vig , V. S. Veena , S. Mohan , S. K. Ghosh , A. Tej , D. K. Ojha

We study the formation of molecular hydrogen, after the epoch of re-ionization, in the context of canonical galaxy formation theory due to hierarchical clustering. There is an initial epoch of $H_2$ production in the gas phase through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Colin A. Norman , Marco Spaans

To investigate the process of star formation triggered by the expansion of an HII region, we present a multi-wavelength analysis of the Galactic HII region RCW 120 and its surroundings. The collect and collapse model predicts that the layer…

We present visible, near IR, and mm-wave observations of RCW 108, a molecular cloud complex in the AraOB1 association that is being eroded by the energetic radiation of two O-type stars in the nearby cluster NGC 6193. The western part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Comeron , N. Schneider , D. Russeil

Milky Way-type galaxies are surrounded by a warm-hot gaseous halo containing a considerable amount of baryons and metals. The kinematics and spatial distribution of highly-ionized ion species such as \ion{O}{6} can be significantly affected…