PDRs4All: A JWST early release science program on radiative feedback from massive stars

PI Team, O Berné, É Habart, E Peeters… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, Gardner et al. 2006) is a 6.5 m space telescope
launched in 2021 December and is developed by the National Aeronautics and Space …

Star Formation and Molecular Gas Diagnostics with Mid-and Far-infrared Emission

CM Whitcomb, K Sandstrom, A Leroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With the start of JWST observations, mid-infrared (MIR) emission features from polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), H 2 rotational lines, fine structure lines from ions, and dust …

ALMA Reveals a Cloud–Cloud Collision that Triggers Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud

N Neelamkodan, K Tokuda, S Barman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations in 12
CO (1–0) emission at 0.58× 0.52 pc 2 resolution toward the brightest H ii region N66 of the …

A rich molecular chemistry in the gas of the IC 348 star cluster of the Perseus Molecular Cloud

S Iglesias-Groth… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present Spitzer 10–34 spectroscopic observations of the diffuse gas in the inner region
of the star-forming region IC 348 of the Perseus Molecular Cloud. We find evidence for the …

Efficient ortho-para conversion of H2 on interstellar grain surfaces

E Bron, F Le Petit, J Le Bourlot - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016 - aanda.org
Context. Fast surface conversion between ortho-and para-H 2 has been observed in
laboratory studies, and it has been proposed that this mechanism plays a role in the control …

ALMA Observations of HCO+ and HCN Emission in the Massive Star-forming Region N55 of the Large Magellanic Cloud

AJ Nayana, N Naslim, T Onishi, F Kemper… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of high spatial resolution HCO+(1− 0) and HCN (1− 0) observations
of the N55 south region (N55-S) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), obtained with the …

ALMA reveals molecular cloud N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud as a site of massive star formation

N Naslim, K Tokuda, T Onishi, F Kemper… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the molecular cloud properties of N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud using 12
CO (1–0) and 13 CO (1–0) observations obtained with Atacama Large Millimeter Array. We …

On the collisional disalignment of dust grains in illuminated and shaded regions of IC 63

A Soam, BG Andersson, J Acosta-Pulido… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Interstellar dust grain alignment causes polarization from UV to mm wavelengths, allowing
the study of the geometry and strength of the magnetic field. Over the last couple of decades …

Molecular Hydrogen in the Extremely Metal-Poor, Star-Forming Galaxy Leo P

OG Telford, KM Sandstrom, KBW McQuinn… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed unexpectedly rapid galaxy
assembly in the early universe, in tension with models of star and galaxy formation. In the …

Effects of dust evolution on the abundances of CO and H2

H Hirashita, N Harada - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The CO-to-H2 conversion factor (X CO) is known to correlate with the metallicity (Z). The dust
abundance, which is related to the metallicity, is responsible for this correlation through dust …