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Grand Design versus Multiarmed Spiral Galaxies: Dependence on Galaxy Structure

The Astronomical Journal
We developed an algorithm to use Galaxy Zoo 3D spiral arm masks produced by citizen scientist volunteers to semiautomatically classify spiral galaxies as either multiarmed or grand design spirals. Our final sample consists of 299 multiarmed and 245 grand
Beverly J. Smith, Matthew Watson, Mark L. Giroux, Curtis Struck   +3 more
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A Cloud-Scale View of the Molecular Gas Disk in the Whirlpool Galaxy and Beyond [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022
The nearby galaxy M51 (also known as the Whirlpool galaxy) hosts an iconic grand-design spiral pattern and both IRAM facilities conducted the first cloud-scale (∼50 pc resolution) survey of the molecular gas reservoir across a the disk of a massive star ...
Schinnerer Eva, Pety Jérôme, Bešlić Ivana, Eibensteiner Cosima, Stuber Sophia, Leroy Adam, Hughes Annie, Usero Antonio, Bigiel Frank   +8 more
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Dust Emission in Galaxies at Millimeter Wavelengths: Cooling of star forming regions in NGC6946 [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022
Interstellar dust plays an important role in the formation of molecular gas and the heating and cooling of the interstellar medium. The spatial distribution of the mm-wavelength dust emission from galaxies is largely unexplored. The NIKA2 Guaranteed Time
Ejlali G., Adam R., Ade P., Ajeddig H., André P., Artis E., Aussel H., Beelen A., Benoît A., Berta S., Bing L., Bourrion O., Calvo M., Catalano A., de Looze I., De Petris M., Désert F.-X., Doyle S., Driessen E.F. C., Galametz M., Galliano F., Gomez A., Goupy J., Jones A.P., Hughes A., Katsioli S., Kéruzoré F., Kramer C., Ladjelate B., Lagache G., Leclercq S., Lestrade J.-F., Macías-Pérez J.-F., Madden S.C., Maury A., Mauskopf P., Mayet F., Monfardini A., Muñoz-Echeverría M., Nersesian A., Perotto L., Pisano G., Ponthieu N., Revéret V., Rigby A.J., Ritacco A., Romero C., Roussel H., Ruppin F., Schuster K., Shu S., Sievers A., Smith M. W. S. L., Tabatabaei F. S., Tucker C., Xilouris E.M., Zylka R.   +56 more
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PHANGS–JWST First Results: Multiwavelength View of Feedback-driven Bubbles (the Phantom Voids) across NGC 628

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
We present a high-resolution view of bubbles within the Phantom Galaxy (NGC 628), a nearby (∼10 Mpc), star-forming (∼2 M _⊙ yr ^−1 ), face-on ( i ∼ 9°) grand-design spiral galaxy.
Ashley. T. Barnes, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Sharon E. Meidt, Kathryn Kreckel, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Treß, Simon C. O. Glover, Frank Bigiel, Rupali Chandar, Eric Emsellem, Janice C. Lee, Adam K. Leroy, Karin M. Sandstrom, Eva Schinnerer, Erik Rosolowsky, Francesco Belfiore, Guillermo A. Blanc, Médéric Boquien, Jakob den Brok, Yixian Cao, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg V. Egorov, Cosima Eibensteiner, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Hamid Hassani, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Sarah Jeffreson, María J. Jiménez-Donaire, Benjamin W. Keller, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Koch, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Kirsten L. Larson, Jing Li, Daizhong Liu, Laura A. Lopez, Eric J. Murphy, Lukas Neumann, Jérôme Pety, Francesca Pinna, Miguel Querejeta, Florent Renaud, Toshiki Saito, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Amy Sardone, Rowan J. Smith, Sophia K. Stuber, Jiayi Sun, David A. Thilker, Antonio Usero, Bradley C. Whitmore, Thomas G. Williams   +53 more
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PHANGS–JWST First Results: A Combined HST and JWST Analysis of the Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 628

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
We combine archival Hubble Space Telescope and new James Webb Space Telescope imaging data covering the ultraviolet to mid-infrared regime to morphologically analyze the nuclear star cluster (NSC) of NGC 628, a grand-design spiral galaxy.
Nils Hoyer, Francesca Pinna, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Nadine Neumayer, Mattia C. Sormani, Médéric Boquien, Eric Emsellem, Anil C. Seth, Ralf S. Klessen, Thomas G. Williams, Eva Schinnerer, Ashley. T. Barnes, Adam K. Leroy, Silvia Bonoli, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Justus Neumann, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Daniel A. Dale, Elizabeth J. Watkins, David A. Thilker, Erik Rosolowsky, Frank Bigiel, Kathryn Grasha, Oleg V. Egorov, Daizhong Liu, Karin M. Sandstrom, Kirsten L. Larson, Guillermo A. Blanc, Hamid Hassani   +30 more
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Insights into the structure and kinematics of a Milky Way-like galaxy

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context. Understanding how the large-scale kinematics of the Milky Way (MW) shape the formation and evolution of the interstellar medium remains challenging from an observational perspective, and numerical models that can reproduce the observed structure
Durán-Camacho E., Duarte-Cabral A.
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A New Statistical Analysis of the Morphology of Spiral Galaxies

The Astronomical Journal
Morphology is the starting point for understanding galaxies. Elmegreen et al. classified spiral galaxies into flocculent, multiple-arm, and grand-design galaxies based on the regularity of their spiral arm structure.
Junye Wei, Ye Xu, Zehao Lin, Chaojie Hao, Yingjie Li, Dejian Liu, Shuaibo Bian   +6 more
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From gas to stars along the spiral wave: CO, HCN, and star formation variations across the spiral arms in NGC 4321 and M51

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context. Molecular clouds form stars from the interstellar medium via gravitational collapse, following a sequence from low-density gas to high-density cores and eventually the formation of stars. In classical density wave theory, gas clouds orbiting the
Greve Minou, Neumann Lukas, Thorp Mallory, Colombo Dario, Bigiel Frank, Querejeta Miguel, Meidt Sharon E., Barnes Ashley T., Bazzi Zein, Klessen Ralf S., Leroy Adam K., Pan Hsi-An, Pety Jérôme, Ruiz-García Marina, Schinnerer Eva, Smith Rowan, Stuber Sophia, Sun Jiayi, Usero Antonio, Williams Thomas G.   +19 more
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The Flocculent Structure of the Inner Milky Way Disk

The Astronomical Journal
Observations of H i published in 1957 by Westerhout and Schmidt were presented as showing a global face-on view of the spiral structure in the Milky Way. Since then, many studies have attempted to improve on the early map, perhaps presupposing our Galaxy
Dana S. Balser, W. B. Burton
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Morphology and Kinematics of the Gas in M51: How Interaction with NGC 5195 Has Molded the Structure of Its Arms

The Astrophysical Journal
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a well-studied grand design galaxy with two major spiral arms, and a large satellite NGC 5195. The arms both show long uniform sections with perturbations (“kinks” or sharp turns) in specific regions.
Joan Font, John E. Beckman, Benoît Epinat, Clare L. Dobbs, Miguel Querejeta   +4 more
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