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 …

The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor

AD Bolatto, M Wolfire, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
CO line emission represents the most accessible and widely used tracer of the molecular
ISM. This renders the translation of observed CO intensity into total H2 gas mass critical to …

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∼ …

Photodissociation and X-Ray-Dominated Regions

MG Wolfire, L Vallini, M Chevance - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The radiation from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) creates photodissociation regions
(PDRs) and X-ray-dominated regions (XDRs), where the chemistry or heating is dominated …

PHIBSS: unified scaling relations of gas depletion time and molecular gas fractions

LJ Tacconi, R Genzel, A Saintonge… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an update of our previous scaling relations between galaxy-integrated
molecular gas masses, stellar masses, and star formation rates (SFRs), in the framework of …

Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

CM Casey, D Narayanan, A Cooray - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength surveys have now established the important role
of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) in the assembly of stellar mass and the evolution of …

Phibss: molecular gas content and scaling relations in z∼ 1–3 massive, main-sequence star-forming galaxies

LJ Tacconi, R Neri, R Genzel, F Combes… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHIBSS, the IRAM Plateau de Bure high-z blue sequence CO 3–2 survey of the
molecular gas properties in massive, main-sequence star-forming galaxies (SFGs) near 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 …

Development of the model of galactic interstellar emission for standard point-source analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope data

F Acero, M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Albert… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Most of the celestial γ rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope originate from the interstellar medium when energetic cosmic …

Molecular gas and star formation in nearby disk galaxies

AK Leroy, F Walter, K Sandstrom… - The Astronomical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare molecular gas traced by 12 CO (2–1) maps from the HERACLES survey, with
tracers of the recent star formation rate (SFR) across 30 nearby disk galaxies. We …