Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

Star Clusters Near and Far: Tracing Star Formation Across Cosmic Time

A Adamo, P Zeidler, JMD Kruijssen, M Chevance… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host
galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, ie detailed insight …

The dawes review 8: measuring the stellar initial mass function

AM Hopkins - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2018 - cambridge.org
The birth of stars and the formation of galaxies are cornerstones of modern astrophysics.
While much is known about how galaxies globally and their stars individually form and …

The spatial relation between young star clusters and molecular clouds in M51 with LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, A Adamo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a study correlating the spatial locations of young star clusters with those of
molecular clouds in NGC 5194, in order to investigate the time-scale over which clusters …

Connecting young star clusters to CO molecular gas in NGC 7793 with ALMA–LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, L Bittle… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an investigation of the relationship between giant molecular cloud (GMC)
properties and the associated stellar clusters in the nearby flocculent galaxy NGC 7793. We …

Metallicity, ionization parameter, and pressure variations of H ii regions in the TYPHOON spiral galaxies: NGC 1566, NGC 2835, NGC 3521, NGC 5068, NGC 5236 …

K Grasha, QH Chen, AJ Battisti… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a spatially resolved H ii region study of the gas-phase metallicity, ionization
parameter, and interstellar medium (ISM) pressure maps of six local star-forming and face …

Molecular gas cloud properties at z ≃ 1 revealed by the superb angular resolution achieved with ALMA and gravitational lensing

M Dessauges-Zavadsky, J Richard… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Current observations favour that the massive ultraviolet-bright clumps with a median stellar
mass of, ubiquitously observed in z∼ 1–3 galaxies, are star-forming regions formed in situ in …

An environmental analysis of the fast transient AT2018cow and implications for its progenitor and late-time brightness

NC Sun, JR Maund, Y Shao… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The nature of the newly discovered fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) is still puzzling
astronomers. In this paper, we carry out a comprehensive analysis of the molecular gas …

Metallicity fluctuation statistics in the interstellar medium and young stars–I. Variance and correlation

MR Krumholz, YS Ting - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The distributions of a galaxy's gas and stars in chemical space encode a tremendous
amount of information about that galaxy's physical properties and assembly history …

Looking for Obscured Young Star Clusters in NGC 1313

M Messa, D Calzetti, A Adamo, K Grasha… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using recently acquired Hubble Space Telescope NIR observations (J, Paβ, and H
bands) of the nearby galaxy NGC 1313, we investigate the timescales required by a young …