Astrophysical: Molecular gas

  • News
    Molecules precursors to life discovered in the Perseus Cloud
    A study led by the researcher Susana Iglesias of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has detected the presence of large quantities of complex organic...
  • Talk
    The distribution of gas and star formation in M81
    In this talk I will present the first complete 12CO J=3-2 map of M81, observed as part of the Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey. We have detected nine regions of...
  • Publication
    The EDGE-CALIFA Survey: An Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution Studies
    The EDGE-CALIFA survey provides spatially resolved optical integral-field unit and CO spectroscopy for 125 galaxies selected from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral...
  • Talk
    The Formation of Molecular Clouds and Massive Stars
    In this talk I consider two questions. First, I investigate the formation of molecular clouds from diffuse interstellar gas. It has been argued that the...
  • Talk
    The multiple routes of galaxy transformation across the cosmic epochs
    In the local universe most of the stellar mass is in passive galaxies, where star formation isabsent or at very low levels. Understanding what are the...
  • Publication
    VLA Legacy Survey of Molecular Gas in Massive Star-forming Galaxies at High Redshift
    We present the initial results of an ongoing survey with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array targeting the CO(J = 1-0) transition in a sample of 30...
  • Publication
    VLA Legacy Survey of Molecular Gas in Massive Star-forming Galaxies at High Redshift
    We present the initial results of an ongoing survey with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array targeting the CO(J = 1-0) transition in a sample of 30...