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We report the spatial distribution and physical characteristics of molecular clouds in the G24 region, which is located near the intersection of the Milky Way's Galactic bar with the Norma arm and the 3 kpc arm. Utilizing molecular line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-21 Tian Yang , Xi Chen , Xiao-Yun Xu , Yang Yang , En Chen , Jun Li , Bing-Gang Ju , Deng-Rong Lu

We have conducted a mapping spectral line survey toward the Galactic giant molecular cloud W51 in the 3 mm band with the Mopra 22 m telescope in order to study an averaged chemical composition of the gas extended over a molecular cloud…

New large-scale CO surveys of the first and second Galactic quadrants and the nearby molecular cloud complexes in Orion and Taurus, obtained with the CfA 1.2 m telescope, have been combined with 31 other surveys obtained over the past two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. M. Dame , Dap Hartmann , P. Thaddeus

We have made an unbiased survey for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l = 252 deg to 266 deg and b = -5 deg to -1 deg, has revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masanori Nakagawa , T. Onishi , A. Mizuno , Y. Fukui

(abridged) We investigate the properties of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in the molecule-rich galaxy M64 (NGC 4826). In M64, the mean surface density of molecular gas is 2N(H_2) ~ 10^22 over a 2 kpc region, equal to the surface densities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. Rosolowsky , L. Blitz

We present a new 12CO(J=1-0)-line survey of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, covering the bright disk with the highest resolution to date (85 pc along the major axis), observed On-the-Fly (in italics) with the IRAM 30-m telescope. We discuss the…

We detected \co-line emission from a complex of dark cloud located at about 250 pc from M 31's center, which is the most conspicuous extinction feature within the central few hund red pc as observed in $B,V,R,I$-band CCD imaging. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Yoshiaki SOFUE , Shigeomi YOSHIDA

We demonstrate the presence of an extended and massive circumgalactic medium (CGM) around Messier 31 using archival HST COS ultraviolet spectroscopy of 18 QSOs projected within two virial radii of M31 (Rvir=300 kpc). We detect absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicolas Lehner , Chris Howk , Bart Wakker

Recent studies suggest that the density structure of turbulent molecular clouds in the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, M31, aligns with expectations from hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) and virial equilibrium (VE). This study extends the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Eric Keto , Charles Lada , Jan Frobrich

We report observations made with the IRAM 30m radiotelescope in the HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) lines towards a sample of molecular complexes (GMCs) in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The targets were identified bright CO GMCs selected…

The data from the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope Galactic Center CO survey have been analyzed to generate a compilation of molecular clouds with intense CO emission in this region. Clouds are identified in an automated manner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Oka , T. Hasegawa , F. Sato , M. Tsuboi , A. Miyazaki

We present the highest resolution (1") $^{12}$CO(1-0) observations of molecular gas in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 625, to date, obtained with ALMA. Molecular gas is distributed in discrete clouds within an area of $0.4$ kpc$^2$ and does…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Nia Imara , Ilse De Looze , Christopher M. Faesi , Diane Cormier

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 report systematic variations in the CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) line ratio (R) in M51. The ratio shows clear evidence for the evolution of molecular gas from the upstream interarm regions, passage into the spiral arms and back into the downstream…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Koda , N. Scoville , T. Hasegawa , D. Calzetti , J. Donovan Meyer , F. Egusa , R. Kennicutt , N. Kuno , M. Louie , R. Momose , T. Sawada , K. Sorai , M. Umei

We resolve 182 individual giant molecular clouds (GMCs) larger than 2.5 $\times$ 10$^{5}$ \Msun in the inner disks of five large nearby spiral galaxies (NGC 2403, NGC 3031, NGC 4736, NGC 4826, and NGC 6946) to create the largest such sample…

[Abridged] The Owens Valley mm-Array has been used to map the CO 1--0 emission in the inner 2'.5 of the grand design spiral galaxy M51 at 2''-3'' resolution. The molecular spiral arms are revealed with unprecedented clarity: supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Aalto , S. Huettemeister , N. Z. Scoville , P. Thaddeus

We study the properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) from a smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation of a portion of a spiral galaxy, modelled at high resolution, with robust representations of the physics of the interstellar medium.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-31 A. Duarte-Cabral , C. L. Dobbs

To investigate how molecular clouds react to different environmental conditions at a galactic scale, we present a catalogue of giant molecular clouds resolved down to masses of $\sim 10$~M$_{\odot}$ from a simulation of the entire disc of…

The Galactic edge at Galactocentric distances of 14\,--\,22\,kpc provides an ideal laboratory to study molecular clouds in an environment that is different from the solar neighborhood, due to its lower gas density, lower metallicity, and…

Hundreds of high-velocity atomic gas clouds exist above and below the Galactic Centre, with some containing a molecular component. However, the origin of these clouds in the Milky Way's wind is unclear. This paper presents new…