JWST Observations of Starbursts: Massive Star Clusters in the Central Starburst of M82

Autor: Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Divakara Mayya, Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola, Elizabeth Tarantino, Martha L. Boyer, Leindert A. Boogaard, Torsten Böker, Serena A. Cronin, Daniel A. Dale, Keaton Donaghue, Kimberly L. Emig, Deanne B. Fisher, Simon C. O. Glover, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Ralf S. Klessen, Laura Lenkić, Adam K. Leroy, Ilse De Looze, David S. Meier, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Juergen Ott, Mónica Relaño, Sylvain Veilleux, Vicente Villanueva, Fabian Walter, Paul P. van der Werf

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 973, Iss 2, p L55 (2024)

We present a near-infrared (NIR) candidate star cluster catalog for the central kiloparsec of M82 based on new JWST NIRCam images. We identify star cluster candidates using the F250M filter, finding 1357 star cluster candidates with stellar masses >1

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Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation Timeline Unveiled by ALMA, HST, and JWST in NGC 3351

Autor: Jiayi Sun, Hao He, Kyle Batschkun, Rebecca C. Levy, Kimberly Emig, M. Jimena Rodríguez, Hamid Hassani, Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer, Eve C. Ostriker, Christine D. Wilson, Alberto D. Bolatto, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Erik Rosolowsky, Janice C. Lee, Daniel A. Dale, Kirsten L. Larson, David A. Thilker, Leonardo Ubeda, Bradley C. Whitmore, Thomas G. Williams, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Mélanie Chevance, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Rémy Indebetouw, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Daizhong Liu, Smita Mathur, Sharon Meidt, Shyam H. Menon, Justus Neumann, Francesca Pinna, Miguel Querejeta, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 967, Iss 2, p 133 (2024)

We use 0.1″ observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and JWST to study young massive clusters (YMCs) in their embedded “infant” phase across the central starburst ring in NGC 3351. Our new ALMA

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The ALMaQUEST Survey. XII. Dense Molecular Gas as Traced by HCN and HCO+ in Green Valley Galaxies

Autor: Lihwai Lin, Hsi-An Pan, Sara L. Ellison, Nanase Harada, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, K. Decker French, William M. Baker, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Yusei Koyama, Carlos López-Cobá, Tomonari Michiyama, Kate Rowlands, Sebastián F. Sánchez, Mallory D. Thorp

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 963, Iss 2, p 115 (2024)

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of two dense gas tracers, HCN (1−0) and HCO ^+ (1-0) for three galaxies in the green valley and two galaxies on the star-forming main sequence with comparable molecular gas

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VERTICO and IllustrisTNG: The Spatially Resolved Effects of Environment on Galactic Gas

Autor: Adam R. H. Stevens, Toby Brown, Benedikt Diemer, Annalisa Pillepich, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson, Yannick M. Bahé, Alessandro Boselli, Timothy A. Davis, Pascal J. Elahi, Sara L. Ellison, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Ian D. Roberts, Kristine Spekkens, Vicente Villanueva, Adam B. Watts, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 957, Iss 2, p L19 (2023)

It has been shown in previous publications that the TNG100 simulation quantitatively reproduces the observed reduction in each of the total atomic and total molecular hydrogen gas for galaxies within massive halos, i.e., dense environments. In this L

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The PHANGS–JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

Autor: Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy, David A. Thilker, Eva Schinnerer, Erik Rosolowsky, Kirsten L. Larson, Oleg V. Egorov, Thomas G. Williams, Judy Schmidt, Eric Emsellem, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Francesco Belfiore, Ivana Bešlić, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo A. Blanc, Alberto D. Bolatto, Médéric Boquien, Jakob den Brok, Yixian Cao, Rupali Chandar, Jérémy Chastenet, Mélanie Chevance, I-Da Chiang, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Sinan Deger, Cosima Eibensteiner, Christopher M. Faesi, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Hamid Hassani, Kiana F. Henny, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Nils Hoyer, Annie Hughes, Sarah Jeffreson, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Jaeyeon Kim, Hwihyun Kim, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, Kathryn Kreckel, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Jing Li, Daizhong Liu, Laura A. Lopez, Daniel Maschmann, Ness Mayker Chen, Sharon E. Meidt, Eric J. Murphy, Justus Neumann, Nadine Neumayer, Hsi-An Pan, Ismael Pessa, Jérôme Pety, Miguel Querejeta, Francesca Pinna, M. Jimena Rodríguez, Toshiki Saito, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Francesco Santoro, Amy Sardone, Rowan J. Smith, Mattia C. Sormani, Fabian Scheuermann, Sophia K. Stuber, Jessica Sutter, Jiayi Sun, Yu-Hsuan Teng, Robin G. Treß, Antonio Usero, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Bradley C. Whitmore, Alessandro Razza

Publikováno v: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 944, Iss 2, p L17 (2023)

The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference data set for the multiscale, multiphase study of star formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies. With the successful launch and commissioning of JWST, we can now obtain high-

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