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 …

Cloud–cloud collisions and triggered star formation

Y Fukui, A Habe, T Inoue, R Enokiya… - Publications of the …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Star formation is a fundamental process for galactic evolution. One issue over the last
several decades has been determining whether star formation is induced by external …

An alma glimpse of dense molecular filaments associated with high-mass protostellar systems in the large magellanic cloud

K Tokuda, N Harada, KEI Tanaka, T Inoue… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent millimeter/submillimeter facilities have revealed the physical properties of
filamentary molecular clouds in relation to high-mass star formation. A uniform survey of the …

Giant molecular clouds and their type classification in M 74: Toward understanding star formation and cloud evolution

F Demachi, Y Fukui, RI Yamada… - Publications of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M 74 (NGC 628), using data obtained
from the PHANGS (Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS) project. We …

An Unbiased CO Survey toward the Northern Region of the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Atacama Compact Array. I. Overview: CO Cloud Distributions

K Tokuda, H Kondo, T Ohno, A Konishi… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed the data from a large-scale CO survey toward the northern region of the
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) obtained with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) stand …

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 …

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 …

An ALMA study of the massive molecular clump N159W-North in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A possible gas flow penetrating one of the most massive protocluster …

K Tokuda, T Minami, Y Fukui, T Inoue… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Massive dense clumps in the Large Magellanic Cloud can be an important laboratory to
explore the formation of populous clusters. We report multiscale ALMA observations of the …

Connection among environment, cloud–cloud collision speed, and star formation activity in the strongly barred galaxy NGC 1300

F Maeda, K Ohta, Y Fujimoto… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cloud-cloud collision (CCC) has been suggested as a mechanism to induce massive star
formation. Recent simulations suggest that a CCC speed is different among galactic-scale …

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 …