PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
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Article Title | PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies |
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ERA Journal ID | 1058 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Leroy, Adam K., Schinnerer, Eva, Hughes, Annie, Rosolowsky, Erik, Pety, Jérôme, Schruba, Andreas, Usero, Antonio, Blanc, Guillermo A., Chevance, Mélanie, Emsellem, Eric, Faesi, Christopher M., Herrera, Cinthya N., Liu, Daizhong, Meidt, Sharon E., Querejeta, Miguel, Saito, Toshiki, Sandstrom, K., Sun, Jiayi, Williams, Thomas G., Anand, Gagandeep S., Barnes, Ashley T., Behrens, Erica A., Belfiore, Francesco, Benincasa, Samantha M., Bešlić, Ivana, Bigiel, Frank, Bolatto, Alberto D., den Brok, Jakob S., Cao, Yixian, Chandar, Rupali, Chastenet, Jérémy, Chiang, I-Da, Congiu, Enrico, Dale, Daniel A., Deger, Sinan, Eibensteiner, Cosima, Egorov, Oleg V., García-Rodríguez, Axel, Glover, Simon C. O., Grasha, Kathryn, Henshaw, Jonathan D., Ho, I. -Ting, Kepley, Amanda A., Kim, Jaeyeon, Klessen, Ralf S., Kreckel, Kathryn, Koch, Eric W., Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik, Larson, Kirsten L., Lee, Janice C., Lopez, Laura A., Machado, Josh, Mayker, Ness, McElroy, Rebecca, Murphy, Eric J., Ostriker, Eve C., Pan, Hsi-An, Pessa, Ismael, Puschnig, Johannes, Razza, Alessandro, Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia, Santoro, Francesco, Sardone, Amy, Scheuermann, Fabian, Sliwa, Kazimierz, Sormani, Mattia C., Stuber, Sophia K., Thilker, David A., Turner, Jordan A., Utomo, Dyas, Watkins, Elizabeth J. and Whitmore, Bradley |
Journal Title | Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |
Journal Citation | 257 (2) |
Article Number | 43 |
Number of Pages | 61 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0067-0049 |
1538-4365 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac17f3 |
Web Address (URL) | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJS..257...43L |
Abstract | 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 on or near the z = 0 "main sequence" of star-forming galaxies. CO line emission traces the bulk distribution of molecular gas, which is the cold, star-forming phase of the interstellar medium. At the resolution achieved by PHANGS–ALMA, each beam reaches the size of a typical individual giant molecular cloud, so that these data can be used to measure the demographics, life cycle, and physical state of molecular clouds across the population of galaxies where the majority of stars form at z = 0. This paper describes the scientific motivation and background for the survey, sample selection, global properties of the targets, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations, and characteristics of the delivered data and derived data products. As the ALMA sample serves as the parent sample for parallel surveys with MUSE on the Very Large Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, AstroSat, the Very Large Array, and other facilities, we include a detailed discussion of the sample selection. We detail the estimation of galaxy mass, size, star formation rate, CO luminosity, and other properties, compare estimates using different systems and provide best-estimate integrated measurements for each target. We also report the design and execution of the ALMA observations, which combine a Cycle 5 Large Program, a series of smaller programs, and archival observations. Finally, we present the first 1'' resolution atlas of CO emission from nearby galaxies and describe the properties and contents of the first PHANGS–ALMA public data release. |
Keywords | Interstellar medium; Giant molecular clouds; Spiral galaxies; Millimeter astronomy ; Galaxy evolution; CO line emission; Barred spiral galaxies; Disk galaxies; Galaxies; Star formation ; Radio astronomy; Stellar feedback |
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Is supplemented by | PHANGS-ALMA arcsecond CO(2-1) imaging of galaxies : J/ApJS/257/43 |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510102. Astronomical instrumentation |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions, but may be accessed online. Please see the link in the URL field. |
Byline Affiliations | Ohio State University, United States |
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany | |
National center for scientific research (CNRS), France | |
University of Toulouse, France | |
University of Alberta, Canada | |
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM), France | |
Sorbonne University, France | |
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany | |
National Astronomical Observatory (IGN), Spain | |
Carnegie Institution for Science, United States | |
University of Chile, Chile | |
Heidelberg University, Germany | |
European Southern Observatory (ESO), Chile | |
University of Lyon, France | |
University of Massachusetts, United States | |
University of Gent, Belgium | |
University of California San Diego, United States | |
University of Hawaii, United States | |
University of Bonn, Germany | |
University of Virginia, United States | |
INAF Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science, Italy | |
University of Maryland, United States | |
Aix-Marseille University, France | |
University of Toledo, United States | |
University of Wyoming, United States | |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States | |
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), United States | |
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia | |
Australian National University | |
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, United States | |
Gemini Observatory, United States | |
NSF's National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), United States | |
University of Sydney | |
Princeton University, United States | |
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | |
Johns Hopkins University, United States | |
Space Telescope Science Institute, United States |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z75v3/phangs-alma-arcsecond-co-2-1-imaging-of-nearby-star-forming-galaxies
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