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 molecular cloud lifecycle

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their stellar offspring are the building blocks of galaxies.
The physical characteristics of GMCs and their evolution are tightly connected to galaxy …

The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It remains a major challenge to derive a theory of cloud-scale (pc) star formation and
feedback, describing how galaxies convert gas into stars as a function of the galactic …

Environmental dependence of the molecular cloud lifecycle in 54 main-sequence galaxies

J Kim, M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas
and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs;∼ 100 pc), play a major role in …

The life and times of giant molecular clouds

M Chevance, MR Krumholz, AF McLeod… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the sites of star formation and stellar feedback in
galaxies. Their properties set the initial conditions for star formation and their lifecycles …

Pre-supernova feedback mechanisms drive the destruction of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It is a major open question which physical processes stop gas accretion on to giant
molecular clouds (GMCs) and limit the efficiency at which gas is converted into stars. While …

Star formation efficiency and dispersal of giant molecular clouds with UV radiation feedback: dependence on gravitational boundedness and magnetic fields

JG Kim, EC Ostriker, N Filippova - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular clouds are supported by turbulence and magnetic fields, but quantifying their
influence on cloud life cycle and star formation efficiency (SFE) remains an open question …

Dynamical equilibrium in the molecular ISM in 28 nearby star-forming galaxies

J Sun, AK Leroy, EC Ostriker, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare the observed turbulent pressure in molecular gas, P turb, to the required
pressure for the interstellar gas to stay in equilibrium in the gravitational potential of a …

On the duration of the embedded phase of star formation

J Kim, M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Feedback from massive stars plays a key role in molecular cloud evolution. After the onset of
star formation, the young stellar population is exposed by photoionization, winds …

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

JC Lee, KM Sandstrom, AK Leroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …