Modeling the molecular gas content and CO-to-H2 conversion factors in low-metallicity star-forming dwarf galaxies

L Ramambason, V Lebouteiller, SC Madden… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Low-metallicity dwarf galaxies often show no or little CO emission, despite the
intense star formation observed in local samples. Both simulations and resolved …

A Galactic Eclipse: The Small Magellanic Cloud Is Forming Stars in Two Superimposed Systems

CE Murray, S Hasselquist, JEG Peek… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure and dynamics of the star-forming disk of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)
have long confounded us. The SMC is widely used as a prototype for galactic physics at low …

Gas, dust, and the CO-to-molecular gas conversion factor in low-metallicity starbursts

LK Hunt, F Belfiore, F Lelli, BT Draine… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The factor relating CO emission to molecular hydrogen column density, X CO, is still subject
to uncertainty, in particular at low metallicity. In this paper, to quantify X CO at two different …

The first detection of a protostellar CO outflow in the small magellanic cloud with ALMA

K Tokuda, S Zahorecz, Y Kunitoshi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Protostellar outflows are one of the most outstanding features of star formation.
Observational studies over the last several decades have successfully demonstrated that …

CO (2− 1) survey at 9 pc resolution in the Small Magellanic Cloud

HP Saldaño, M Rubio, AD Bolatto, C Verdugo… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the closest low-metallicity galaxy to the Milky
Way where the dynamical state of molecular clouds can be analyzed. Aims. Our aim is to …

An unbiased co survey toward the northern region of the small magellanic cloud with the atacama compact array. ii. co cloud catalog

T Ohno, K Tokuda, A Konishi, T Matsumoto… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of molecular clouds and their statistical behavior in subsolar metallicity
environments are not fully explored yet. We analyzed data from an unbiased CO (J= 2–1) …

ACA CO(J = 2–1) mapping of the nearest spiral galaxy M 33. II. Exploring the evolution of giant molecular clouds

A Konishi, K Muraoka, K Tokuda, S Fujita… - Publications of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main sites of high-mass star formation,
is an essential process to unravel the galaxy evolution. Using a GMC catalogue of M 33 from …

ATCA study of Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 1E 0102.2–7219

RZE Alsaberi, MD Filipović, S Dai… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present new and archival Australia Telescope Compact Array and Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array data of the Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 1E …

ACA CO (J= 2–1) Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. I. Initial Results and Identification of Molecular Clouds

K Muraoka, A Konishi, K Tokuda, H Kondo… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m array observations in 12 CO (J= 2–1), 13 CO (J= 2–
1), and C 18 O (J= 2–1) line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local Group …

Far and extreme UV radiation feedback in molecular clouds and its influence on the mass and size of star clusters

H Fukushima, H Yajima - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We study the formation of star clusters in molecular clouds by performing three-dimensional
radiation hydrodynamics simulations with far-ultraviolet (FUV; 6 eV≦ h ν≦ 13.6 eV) and …