The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local universe

A Saintonge, B Catinella - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The cold interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in the galaxy evolution process. It is
the reservoir that fuels galaxy growth via star formation, the repository of material formed by …

Stellar structures, molecular gas, and star formation across the PHANGS sample of nearby galaxies

M Querejeta, E Schinnerer, S Meidt, J Sun… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We identify stellar structures in the PHANGS sample of 74 nearby galaxies and construct
morphological masks of sub-galactic environments based on Spitzer 3.6 μm images. At the …

Star formation scaling relations at∼ 100 pc from PHANGS: Impact of completeness and spatial scale

I Pessa, E Schinnerer, F Belfiore, E Emsellem… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. The complexity of star formation at the physical scale of molecular clouds is not yet
fully understood. We investigate the mechanisms regulating the formation of stars in different …

The ALMaQUEST Survey–V. The non-universality of kpc-scale star formation relations and the factors that drive them

SL Ellison, L Lin, MD Thorp, HA Pan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Using a sample of∼ 15 000 kpc-scale star-forming spaxels in 28 galaxies drawn from the
ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation (ALMaQUEST) survey, we investigate the …

SDSS-IV MaNGA: effects of morphology in the global and local star formation main sequences

M Cano-Díaz, V Ávila-Reese… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the global star formation rate (SFR) versus stellar mass (M*) correlation, and the
spatially resolved SFR surface density (ΣSFR) versus stellar mass surface density (Σ*) …

The ALMaQUEST survey–III. Scatter in the resolved star-forming main sequence is primarily due to variations in star formation efficiency

SL Ellison, MD Thorp, L Lin, HA Pan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Using a sample of 11 478 spaxels in 34 galaxies with molecular gas, star formation, and
stellar maps taken from the ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation (ALMaQUEST) …

ALMaQUEST. IV. The ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar Formation (ALMaQUEST) Survey

L Lin, SL Ellison, HA Pan, MD Thorp… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The ALMaQUEST (ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation) survey is a
program with spatially resolved 12 CO (1− 0) measurements obtained with the Atacama …

The EDGE–CALIFA survey: the local and global relations between Σ*, ΣSFR, and Σmol that regulate star formation

SF Sánchez, JK Barrera-Ballesteros… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new characterization of the relations between star-formation rate, stellar mass,
and molecular gas mass surface densities at different spatial scales across galaxies (from …

Variations in the ΣSFR− Σmol− Σ⋆ plane across galactic environments in PHANGS galaxies

I Pessa, E Schinnerer, AK Leroy, EW Koch… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. There exists some consensus that the stellar mass surface density (Σ⋆) and molecular
gas mass surface density (Σ mol) are the main quantities responsible for locally setting the …

The ALMaQUEST Survey: The Molecular Gas Main Sequence and the Origin of the Star-forming Main Sequence

L Lin, HA Pan, SL Ellison, F Belfiore… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS; ie, the relation between star formation
rate and stellar mass, globally or on kpc scales) remains a hotly debated topic in galaxy …