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

  • Authors: Adam K. Leroy, Eva Schinnerer, Annie Hughes, Erik Rosolowsky, Jérôme Pety, Andreas Schruba, Antonio Usero, Guillermo A. Blanc, Mélanie Chevance, Eric Emsellem, Christopher M. Faesi, Cinthya N. Herrera, Daizhong Liu, Sharon E. Meidt, Miguel Querejeta, Toshiki Saito, Karin M. Sandstrom, Jiayi Sun, 嘉 懿 孙, Thomas G. Williams, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Erica A. Behrens, Francesco Belfiore, Samantha M. Benincasa, Ivana Bešlić, Frank Bigiel, Alberto D. Bolatto, Jakob S. den Brok, Yixian Cao, Rupali Chandar, Jérémy Chastenet, I-Da Chiang, 宜 達 江, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Sinan Deger, Cosima Eibensteiner, Oleg V. Egorov, Axel García-Rodríguez, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Jonathan D. Henshaw, I-Ting Ho, Amanda A. Kepley, Jaeyeon Kim, Ralf S. Klessen, Kathryn Kreckel, Eric W. Koch, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, Laura A. Lopez, Josh Machado, Ness Mayker, Rebecca McElroy, Eric J. Murphy, Eve C. Ostriker, Hsi-An Pan, Ismael Pessa, Johannes Puschnig, Alessandro Razza, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Francesco Santoro, Amy Sardone, Fabian Scheuermann, Kazimierz Sliwa, Mattia C. Sormani, Sophia K. Stuber, David A. Thilker, Jordan A. Turner, Dyas Utomo, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Bradley Whitmore

Adam K. Leroy et al 2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 257 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

CO emission at the kiloparsec resolution of previous surveys and the “cloud scale” resolution of PHANGS–ALMA. The left panels show CO(2−1) emission measured by PHANGS–ALMA for NGC 2903 and NGC 3627 convolved to 1 kpc resolution, roughly corresponding to the resolution of previous large CO mapping surveys. The right panels show the CO(2−1) emission from the same galaxies at the typical 120 pc resolution of PHANGS–ALMA. Circles show the beam in each panel, and each map shows the maximum intensity of emission along a line of sight at 12.5 km s−1 velocity resolution. The high-resolution view shows clumpy structures corresponding to individual massive molecular clouds. The high-resolution images also show a strong influence of dynamical features; both galaxies have strong stellar bars and spiral arms.

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