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We present a comparative study of the molecular gas in two galaxies from the LEGUS sample: barred spiral NGC 1313 and flocculent spiral NGC 7793. These two galaxies have similar masses, metallicities, and star formation rates, but NGC 1313…

The study of molecular clouds in galaxies beyond the Local Group is limited by the need to efficiently sample diverse galactic environments across galactic discs, typically resulting in a loss of resolution. Using a high-resolution dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Faustino Vieira , A. Duarte-Cabral , M. W. L. Smith , D. Colombo , T. A. Davis , Z. Bazzi

We present an investigation of the relationship between giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties and the associated stellar clusters in the nearby flocculent galaxy NGC 7793. We combine the star cluster catalog from the HST LEGUS (Legacy…

We used CO (2-1) and CO (1-0) data cubes to identify molecular clouds and study their kinematics and dynamics in three nearby galaxies and the inner Milky Way. When observed at similar spatial and velocity resolutions, molecular clouds in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-03 J. W. Zhou , Sami Dib

Star formation activity depends on galactic-scale environments. To understand the variations in star formation activity, comparing the properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) among environments with different star formation efficiency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Fumiya Maeda , Kouji Ohta , Yusuke Fujimoto , Asao Habe

Recent galaxy observations show that star formation activity changes depending on galactic environments. In order to understand the diversity of galactic-scale star formation, it is crucial to understand the formation and evolution of giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Yusuke Fujimoto , Fumiya Maeda , Asao Habe , Kouji Ohta

We investigate the impact of galactic environment on the properties of simulated giant molecular clouds formed in a M83-type barred spiral galaxy. Our simulation uses a rotating stellar potential to create the grand design features and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Yusuke Fujimoto , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Mariko Wakayama , Asao Habe

We present high-resolution (~ 4") 12CO (J = 1 - 0) mapping observations with high - velocity resolution (~ 2.6 km s^{-1}) toward the disk of flocculent galaxy NGC 5055, using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array in order to study the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoka Tosaki , Yasuhiro Shioya , Nario Kuno , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Takashi Hasegawa

It remains unclear how galactic environment affects star formation and stellar cluster properties. This is difficult to address in Milky Way-mass galaxy simulations because of limited resolution and less accurate feedback compared to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-05 Ahmad A. Ali , Clare L. Dobbs , Thomas J. R. Bending , Anne S. M. Buckner , Alex R. Pettitt

We present high-spatial-resolution ($\sim 0\farcs2$, or $\sim$3\,pc) CO(2--1) observations of the nearest young starburst dwarf galaxy, NGC\,5253, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. We have identified 118 molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Rie E. Miura , Daniel Espada , Akihiko Hirota , Kouichiro Nakanishi , George J. Bendo , Hajime Sugai

We present observations of CO(3-2) and $^{13}$CO(3-2) emission near the supernebula in the dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, which contains one of the best examples of a potential globular cluster in formation. The 0.3" resolution images reveal an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-15 J. L. Turner , S. M. Consiglio , S. C. Beck , W. M. Goss , P. T. P. Ho , D. S. Meier , S. Silich , J. -H. Zhao

Here we present the cloud population extracted from M51, following the application of our new high-resolution dust extinction technique to the galaxy (Faustino Vieira et al. 2023). With this technique, we are able to image the gas content…

The formation of stars is inextricably linked to the structure of their parental molecular clouds. Here we take a number of nearby giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and analyse their column density and mass distributions. This investigation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Froebrich , J. Rowles

We present new observations of a 2' field in the north-eastern spiral arm of M31. In the 0.8 x 3.6 kpc mosaicked region, we have detected six distinct, large complexes of molecular gas, most of which lie along the spiral arm dust lane or in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartik Sheth , Stuart N. Vogel , Christine D. Wilson , T. M. Dame

We explore the effect of different galactic disc environments on the properties of star-forming clouds through variations in the background potential in a set of isolated galaxy simulations. Rising, falling and flat rotation curves expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-05 Ngan K. Nguyen , Alex R. Pettitt , Elizabeth J. Tasker , Takashi Okamoto

We aim to better understand how the spatial structure of molecular clouds is governed by turbulence. For that, we study the large-scale spatial distribution of low density molecular gas and search for characteristic length scales. We employ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 N. Schneider , S. Bontemps , R. Simon , V. Ossenkopf , C. Federrath , R. Klessen , F. Motte , P. Andre , J. Stutzki , C. Brunt

We analyse extinction maps of nearby Giant Molecular Clouds to forge a link between driving processes of turbulence and modes of star formation. Our investigation focuses on cloud structure in the column density range above the self…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

The work of Adamo et al. (2015) showed that the mass distributions of young massive stellar clusters were truncated above a maximum-mass scale in the nearby galaxy M83 and that this truncation mass varies with galactocentric radius. Here,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Pamela Freeman , Erik Rosolowsky , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Nate Bastian , Angela Adamo

Cloud-cloud collision (CCC) has been suggested as a mechanism to induce massive star formation. Recent simulations suggest that a CCC speed is different among galactic-scale environments, which is responsible for observed differences in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-21 Fumiya Maeda , Kouji Ohta , Yusuke Fujimoto , Asao Habe
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