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∼ …

Theory of star formation

CF McKee, EC Ostriker - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2007 - annualreviews.org
We review current understanding of star formation, outlining an overall theoretical framework
and the observations that motivate it. A conception of star formation has emerged in which …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

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 …

The star formation efficiency in nearby galaxies: measuring where gas forms stars effectively

AK Leroy, F Walter, E Brinks, F Bigiel… - The astronomical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the star formation efficiency (SFE), the star formation rate (SFR) per unit of gas,
in 23 nearby galaxies and compare it with expectations from proposed star formation laws …

The ALMA REBELS Survey: cosmic dust temperature evolution out to z ∼ 7

L Sommovigo, A Ferrara, A Pallottini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT ALMA observations have revealed the presence of dust in the first generations
of galaxies in the Universe. However, the dust temperature T d remains mostly …

The local dark matter density

JI Read - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
I review current efforts to measure the mean density of dark matter near the Sun. This
encodes valuable dynamical information about our Galaxy and is also of great importance …

Formation of massive galaxies at high redshift: cold streams, clumpy disks, and compact spheroids

A Dekel, D Ceverino - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a simple theoretical framework for massive galaxies at high redshift, where the
main assembly and star formation occurred, and report on the first cosmological simulations …

Supermassive black holes at high redshift are expected to be obscured by their massive host galaxies' interstellar medium

R Gilli, C Norman, F Calura, F Vito, R Decarli… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We combine results from deep ALMA observations of massive (M*> 10 10 M⊙) galaxies at
different redshifts to show that the column density of their interstellar medium (ISM) rapidly …

Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications

S Veilleux, R Maiolino, AD Bolatto, S Aalto - The Astronomy and …, 2020 - Springer
Neutral-atomic and molecular outflows are a common occurrence in galaxies, near and far.
They operate over the full extent of their galaxy hosts, from the innermost regions of galactic …