The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Molecular Gas and the Star-Formation Process on Cloud Scales in Nearby Galaxies

E Schinnerer, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of
the gas–star formation feedback “matter cycle” have provided a sharp new view of molecular …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Kinematics in young star clusters and associations with Gaia DR2

MA Kuhn, LA Hillenbrand, A Sills… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star
clusters at the sub-km s− 1 level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters …

Global hierarchical collapse in molecular clouds. Towards a comprehensive scenario

E Vázquez-Semadeni, A Palau… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a unified description of the scenario of global hierarchical collapse (GHC). GHC
constitutes a flow regime of (non-homologous) collapses within collapses, in which all …

Dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

CM Casey, D Narayanan, A Cooray - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength surveys have now established the important role
of dusty, star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) in the assembly of stellar mass and the evolution of …

Stellar initial mass function varies with metallicity and time

J Li, C Liu, ZY Zhang, H Tian, X Fu, J Li, ZQ Yan - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Most structural and evolutionary properties of galaxies strongly rely on the stellar initial mass
function (IMF), namely the distribution of the stellar mass formed in each episode of star …

Figuring out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving simulated circumgalactic absorption at 2≤ z≤ 2.5

MS Peeples, L Corlies, J Tumlinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present simulations from the new" Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo"(FOGGIE)
project. In contrast to most extant simulations of galaxy formation, which concentrate …

Molecular clouds in the Milky Way

M Heyer, TM Dame - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In the past twenty years, the reconnaissance of 12CO and 13CO emission in the Milky Way
by single-dish millimeter-wave telescopes has expanded our view and understanding of …