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We have mapped the northern area (30' times 20') of a local group spiral galaxy M33 in 12CO(J=1-0) line with the 45-m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Along with Halpha and Spitzer 24-micron data, we have investigated the…

The scaling relations and the star formation laws for molecular cloud complexes in the Milky Way is investigated. We compare their masses $M_{\rm gas}$, mass surface densities $\Sigma_{M_{\rm gas}}$, radii $R$, velocity dispersions…

We have accumulated 12CO(1-0) and (2-1) data of several GMCs in M31 using the Plateau de Bure Interferometer. The sample covers a range of 5 to 18 kpc galactocentric distance and various physical conditions. The spatial resolution attains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Neininger

We compare the properties of clouds in simulated M33 galaxies to those observed in the real M33. We apply a friends of friends algorithm and CPROPS to identify clouds, as well as a pixel by pixel analysis. We obtain very good agreement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 C. L. Dobbs , E. Rosolowsky , A. R. Pettitt , J. Braine , E. Corbelli , J. Sun

We have mapped the northern area (30'\times 20') of a local group spiral galaxy M33 in 12CO(1-0) line with the 45-m telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Along with Halpha and Spitzer 24-micron data, we have investigated the…

We use hierarchical Bayesian regression analysis to investigate star formation laws in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) in both local (30, 155, and 750pc) and global cases. We study and compare the well-known Kennicutt-Schmidt law, the extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-22 Sahar Rahmani , Sophia Lianou , Pauline Barmby

We compare the structure of molecular gas at $40$ pc resolution to the ability of gas to form stars across the disk of the spiral galaxy M51. We break the PAWS survey into $370$ pc and $1.1$ kpc resolution elements, and within each we…

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

The shape of the cold interstellar molecular gas is determined by several processes, including self-gravity, tidal force, turbulence, magnetic field, and galactic shear. Based on the 3D dust extinction map derived by Vergely et al., we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-27 Yi-Heng Xie , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen

The relationship between the star formation rate surface density and the molecular gas surface density in galaxies is key to understanding galaxy evolution. To investigate the molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt (K-S) relation and its dependence on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-13 Victoria G. G. Samboco , Ryan P. Keenan

This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

Using a large sample of 9617 molecular clouds (MCs) from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting survey, we mainly measure one-dimensional cloud-to-cloud velocity dispersions across a 450 deg$^{2}$ segment of the Local arm in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang

The relationship between the star formation rate and surface density of neutral gas within the disk of M33 is examined with new imaging observations of CO J=1-0 emission gathered with the FCRAO 14m telescope and IRAS HiRes images of the 60…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Heyer , E. Corbelli , S. E. Schneider , J. S. Young

The high velocity dispersion compact cloud CO-0.30-0.07 is a peculiar molecular clump discovered in the central moleculr zone of the Milky Way, which is characterized by its extremely broad velocity emissions ($\sim 145\ \rm{km s^{-1}}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kunihiko Tanaka , Makoto Nagai , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Tomoharu Oka

As a part of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, we performed a simultaneous 12CO(1-0), 13CO(1-0), C18O(1-0) mapping toward molecular clouds in a region encompassing 3.75 square degrees. We reveal three molecular clouds,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-30 Y. Gong , R. Q. Mao , M. Fang , S. B. Zhang , Y. Su , J. Yang , Z. B. Jiang , Y. Xu , M. Wang , Y. Wang , D. R. Lu , J. X. Sun

We use ALMA and IRAM 30-m telescope data to investigate the relationship between the spectroscopically-traced dense gas fraction and the cloud-scale (120 pc) molecular gas surface density in five nearby, star-forming galaxies. We estimate…

We present $\mathrm{^{12}CO}$ and $\mathrm{^{13}CO}$ molecular gas data observed by ALMA, massive early stage young stellar objects identified by applying color-magnitude cuts to \textit{Spitzer} and \textit{Herschel} photometry, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Omnarayani Nayak , Margaret Meixner , Remy Indebetouw , Guido De Marchi , Anton Koekemoer , Nino Panagia , Elena Sabbi

We measure the mass and size of cloud fragments in several molecular clouds continuously over a wide range of spatial scales (0.05 < r / pc < 3). Based on the recently developed "dendrogram-technique", this characterizes dense cores as well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jens Kauffmann , Thushara Pillai , Rahul Shetty , Philip C. Myers , Alyssa A. Goodman

We derive distributions of dust temperature and dust opacity across M31 at 45" resolution using the Spitzer data. With the opacity map and a standard dust model we de-redden the Ha emission yielding the first de-reddened Ha map of M31. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 F. S. Tabatabaei , E. M. Berkhuijsen