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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are key dust components in galaxies and play a fundamental role in the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their response to AGN feedback remains debated. We present a spatially resolved…

Spectral features from PAH molecules observed in the mid-IR range are typically used to infer the amount of recent and ongoing star formation (SF) on kpc scales around AGN where more traditional methods fail. This assumes that the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 J. J. Jensen , S. F. Hönig , S. Rakshit , A. Alonso-Herrero , D. Asmus , P. Gandhi , M. Kishimoto , A. Smette , K. R. W. Tristram

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been detected throughout the universe where they play essential roles in the evolution of their environments. For example, they are believed to affect atmospheric loss rates of close-in planets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Fabian Grübel , Karan Molaverdikhani , Barbara Ercolano , Christian Rab , Oliver Trapp , Dwaipayan Dubey , Rosa Arenales-Lope

We investigate the correlations of CO (2-1) emission (${I_{\rm CO}}$) with PAH (${I_{\rm F770W, PAH}}$ and ${I_{\rm F1130W}}$) and dust (${I_{\rm F2100W}}$) emission down to scales of $\lesssim$ 100 pc, by applying \raddest, a novel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-14 Tao Jing , Cheng Li

In this paper, we explore the detectability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) under diverse planetary conditions, aiming to identify promising targets for future observations of planetary atmospheres. Our primary goal is to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Rosa Arenales-Lope , Karan Molaverdikhani , Dwaipayan Dubey , Barbara Ercolano , Fabian Grübel , Christian Rab

We use PHANGS-JWST data to identify and classify 1271 compact 21 $\mu$m sources in four nearby galaxies using MIRI F2100W data. We identify sources using a dendrogram-based algorithm, and we measure the background-subtracted flux densities…

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are believed to be the small-size tail of the interstellar carbonaceous dust grain population. Their vibrational emission is the most widely accepted source of the aromatic near-infrared features, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-21 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Laura Pérez , Ronald Maddalena , Anish Roshi

We present PHANGS-ALMA, the first survey to map CO J=2-1 line emission at ~1" ~ 100pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d<~20 Mpc) galaxies that lie on or near the z=0 "main sequence" of star-forming galaxies. CO…

We combined mapping-mode mid-infrared Spitzer spectra with complementary infrared imaging to perform a spatially resolved study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission from the central regions of 66 nearby galaxies, roughly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-13 Lulu Zhang , Luis C. Ho , Aigen Li

We present the largest catalog to-date of star clusters and compact associations in nearby galaxies. We have performed a V-band-selected census of clusters across the 38 spiral galaxies of the PHANGS-HST Treasury Survey, and measured…

We analyze JWST NIRSpec+MIRI/MRS observations of the infrared (IR) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) features in the central regions ($\sim$0.26'' at 6 micron; $\sim$50-440 pc depending on the source) of local luminous IR galaxies. In…

Low-resolution, mid-infrared Spitzer/IRS spectral maps are presented for three nearby, low-metallicity dwarf galaxies (NGC 55, NGC 3109 and IC 5152) for the purpose of examining the spatial distribution and variation of polycyclic aromatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Korey Haynes , John M. Cannon , Evan D. Skillman , Dale C. Jackson , Robert D. Gehrz

When completed, the PHANGS-HST project will provide a census of roughly 50,000 compact star clusters and associations, as well as human morphological classifications for roughly 20,000 of those objects. These large numbers motivated the…

We present a large spectroscopic survey with \textit{JWST}'s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Low Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) targeting $37$ infrared-bright galaxies between $z=0.65-2.46$ with infrared luminosities $\log L_{\rm…

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered as a major constituent of interstellar dust. They have been proposed as the carriers of the Aromatic Infrared Bands (AIBs) observed in emission in the mid-IR. They likely have a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-22 C. Joblin , O. Berne , A. Simon , G. Mulas

Using PHANGS-HST NUV-U-B-V-I imaging of 17 nearby spiral galaxies, we study samples of star clusters and stellar associations, visually selected to be bright and relatively isolated, for three purposes: to compute aperture corrections for…

We explore indirect methods to detect Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in gas-rich, absorption-selected galaxies at high redshift. We look at the optical VLT/X-shooter observations of an intervening, extremely strong damped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Gargi Shaw , A. Ranjan