The evolution of the star-forming interstellar medium across cosmic time

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Sternberg - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, increasingly robust estimates of the dense molecular gas content in
galaxy populations between redshift z= 0 and the peak of cosmic galaxy/star formation (z∼ …

Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

Obscured active galactic nuclei

RC Hickox, DM Alexander - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of material onto a supermassive
black hole (SMBH) and are among the most luminous objects in the Universe. However, the …

Combined CO and dust scaling relations of depletion time and molecular gas fractions with cosmic time, specific star-formation rate, and stellar mass

R Genzel, LJ Tacconi, D Lutz, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine molecular gas masses inferred from CO emission in 500 star-forming galaxies
(SFGs) between z= 0 and 3, from the IRAM-COLDGASS, PHIBSS1/2, and other surveys, with …

Star formation in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

RC Kennicutt Jr, NJ Evans - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review progress over the past decade in observations of large-scale star formation, with
a focus on the interface between extragalactic and Galactic studies. Methods of measuring …

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: fundamentals and application in functional groups and nanomaterials characterization

SA Khan, SB Khan, LU Khan, A Farooq… - Handbook of materials …, 2018 - Springer
Infrared spectroscopy is an extremely important instrumental tool in applied and basic
sciences for the determination of various functional groups. In this chapter, we have …

Coevolution (or not) of supermassive black holes and host galaxies

J Kormendy, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 85 galaxies by dynamical modeling of
spatially resolved kinematics. The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized BH research by …

Spitzer's perspective of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in galaxies

A Li - Nature Astronomy, 2020 - nature.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules are abundant and widespread throughout
the Universe, as revealed by their distinctive set of emission bands at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3 …

Theoretical modeling of starburst galaxies

LJ Kewley, MA Dopita, RS Sutherland… - The Astrophysical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We have modeled a large sample of infrared starburst galaxies using both the PEGASE v2.
0 and STARBURST99 codes to generate the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the young …

Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules

AGGM Tielens - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules carry the infrared (IR) emission
features that dominate the spectra of most galactic and extragalactic sources. This review …