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Context. It is almost banal to say that the interstellar medium (ISM) is structurally and thermodynamically complex. But the variety of the governing processes, including stellar feedback, renders the investigation challenging. High…

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Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

We measure the velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, and surface density, $\Sigma$, of the molecular gas in nearby galaxies from CO spectral line cubes with spatial resolution $45$-$120$ pc, matched to the size of individual giant molecular…

We present 3.7 arcsec (~0.05 pc) resolution 3.2 mm dust continuum observations from the IRAM PdBI, with the aim of studying the structure and fragmentation of the filamentary Infrared Dark Cloud G035.39-00.33. The continuum emission is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-16 J. D. Henshaw , P. Caselli , F. Fontani , I. Jimenez-Serra , J. C. Tan , S. N. Longmore , J. E. Pineda , R. J. Parker , A. T. Barnes

The Galactic Cold Cores (GCC) project has made Herschel observations of interstellar clouds where Planck detected compact sources of cold dust emission. Our aim is to characterise the structure of the clumps and their parent clouds. We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 M. Juvela , J. Malinen , J. Montillaud , V. -M. Pelkonen , I. Ristorcelli , L. V. Toth

The statistical description of Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) properties relies heavily on the performance of automatic identification algorithms, which are often seriously affected by the survey design. The algorithm we designed, SCIMES…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Dario Colombo , Erik Rosolowsky , Adam Ginsburg , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Annie Hughes

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an irregular dwarf galaxy exhibiting evidence of recent and ongoing star formation. We performed a spatial clustering analysis of far-ultraviolet stars in the SMC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Sipra Hota , Richard de Grijs , Annapurni Subramaniam

Based upon QSO absorption line studies, galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.0 are seen to have extended gaseous "halos". When the absorption lines are observed at high resolution, the velocity distribution of the absorbing gas gives clues as to where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher W. Churchill , Jane C. Charlton

We present the results based on the 2.5 arcsec-resolution observations using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G-0.02-0.07, or the 50 km/s Molecular Cloud (50MC), in the SO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Ryosuke Miyawaki , Masato Tsuboi , Kenta Uehara , Atsushi Miyazaki

We have applied the unsharp-masking technique to the 24 $\mu$m image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope, to search for high-extinction regions. This technique has been used to locate very dense…

Worms are defined to be dusty, atomic hydrogen (HI) structures which are observed in low resolution data to rise perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Data from the 1'-resolution Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) were systematically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ashish Asgekar , Jayanne English , Samar Safi-Harb , Roland Kothes

We revisit the mass-size relation of molecular cloud structures based on the column density map of the Cygnus-X molecular cloud complex. We extract 135 column density peaks in Cygnus-X and analyze the column density distributions around…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Yuchen Xing , Keping Qiu

We investigate the evolution of molecular clouds through the kinematics of their atomic hydrogen (HI) envelopes, using $^{12}\mathrm{CO}$ and 21-cm emission to trace the molecular and atomic gas, respectively. We measure the large-scale…

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A distinct sub-class of anomalous velocity HI emission features has emerged from recent high quality surveys of the Local Group environment, namely the compact high velocity clouds (CHVCs). A program of high-resolution imaging with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun , W. Butler Burton

We use a homogeneous sample of about 1100 rotation curves (RCs) and relative surface photometry to investigate (out to 2 optical radii and over 6 mag) the main mass structure properties of spirals. We confirm the strong dependence on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Persic , P. Salucci , F. Stel

Low-temperature photoluminescence from MoSe2/WSe2 moire superlattice often consists of a broad interlayer emission background with dense, narrow peaks, making microscopic line-by-line assignment difficult. Here, we use hyperspectral…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-25 Nurul Fariha Ahmad , Yuto Urano , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Daichi Kozawa , Ryo Kitaura

We present 3D "zoom-in" simulations of the formation of two molecular clouds out of the galactic interstellar medium. We model the clouds - identified from the SILCC simulations - with a resolution of up to 0.06 pc using adaptive mesh…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 D. Seifried , S. Walch , P. Girichidis , T. Naab , R. Wünsch , R. S. Klessen , S. C. O. Glover , T. Peters , P. Clark

We investigated the kinematics and dynamics of gas structures on galaxy-cloud scales in two spiral galaxies NGC5236 (M83) and NGC4321 (M100) using CO (2$-$1) line. We utilized the FILFINDER algorithm on integrated intensity maps for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 J. W. Zhou , Timothy A. Davis

We present a multiwavelength investigation of the hub-filament system RCW 117 (IRAS 17059-4132), which shows intricate filamentary features in the far-infrared, mapped using Herschel images. We obtain the column density and dust temperature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-03 Arun Seshadri , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh , D. K. Ojha