Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way

By M. Heyer, T. Dame. 2015

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Spectroscopy

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• The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2 (2019, background): “In general, the mass and geometry of the MW gas distribution are still uncertain (e.g. see discussions in Kalberla & Dedes 2008; Heyer & Dame 2015); however, they are reasonably well known at the Sun’s position.”
• Raining on black holes and massive galaxies: the top-down multiphase condensation model (2016, background): “…Milky Way hosts 109 M of H2 gas MNRAS 466, 677–704 (2017) D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /m nras/article-abstract/466/1/677/2617731 by guest on 15 M arch 2020 (Heyer & Dame 2015), 20× higher molecular gas than a massive ETG. Star formation is secondary during the simulated evolution.”
• Global hierarchical collapse in molecular clouds. Towards a comprehensive scenario (2019, result): “…that much of the molecular gas mass has large values of the virial parameter (e.g., Heyer et al. 2001; Kauffmann et al. 2013; Leroy et al. 2015; Heyer & Dame 2015; Traficante et al. 2018a) are thus consistent with the numerical result that most of the gas in an initially contracting MC is…”
• Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model (2017, background): “These include the formation of the dense molecular clouds and stars (Heyer & Dame 2015); the evolution of stellar populations, their winds and energetic feedback (Smith 2014); the explosions of supernovae (Nomoto, Kobayashi & Tominaga 2013); the formation of supermassive black holes and the…”
• FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) I: Project Overview and Initial Results (2017, background): “Thus M16 at a distance of 1.8 kpc is located at ∼41 pc above on the physical Galactic plane, which is about 1/3 of the thickness of the molecular gas layer at 8.5 kpc from the Galactic Center (Sanders et al. 1984; see Heyer & Dame 2015, and references therein).”
• Modeling UV Radiation Feedback from Massive Stars. II. Dispersal of Star-forming Giant Molecular Clouds by Photoionization and Radiation Pressure (2018, background): “Timescales for Star Formation and Cloud Destruction The cloud lifetime is important to understanding the life cycle of GMCs within the context of other ISM phases, yet observational constraints on it remain quite uncertain (Heyer & Dame 2015).”
• Cloud-scale Molecular Gas Properties in 15 Nearby Galaxies (2018, background): “The masses and surface densities that we derive for most sightlines agree well with those found for Galactic GMCs (Heyer & Dame 2015 and references therein).”
• Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems (2020, background): “Star formation is mainly associated with dense molecular clouds (Heyer and Dame 2015), where densities are > 10(2) nH cm −3 (hydrogen nuclei per cubic centimeter), which result in cloud interiors that are therefore well shielded from external radiation, resulting in low temperature and most elements”
• FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation (2017, background): “…projected mass-weighted rms radius), to observations of nearby galaxies ((Bolatto et al. 2008; Fukui et al. 2008; Heyer et al. 2009; Muraoka et al. 2009; Roman-Duval et al. 2010; Colombo et al. 2014; Heyer & Dame 2015; Tosaki et al. 2017); note our definition of Rcloud is equivalent to their σr).”
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MOLECULAR CLOUDS FOR THE ENTIRE MILKY WAY DISK (2016, background): “Heyer & Dame (2015) estimated that this effect could be as high as ∼ 50 %.”
• ATLASGAL - properties of a complete sample of Galactic clumps (2017, background): “Star formation is a Galaxy-wide phenomenon that takes place within the densest parts of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), which are themselves subject to a wide range of physical and environmental conditions (Heyer & Dame 2015).”