Molecular gas in low-metallicity starburst galaxies:

2015/12/18 by R. Amorín, Ricardo Amorín, C. Muñoz–Tuñón +3 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Luminosity #Metallicity #Physics #Star formation #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.GA

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526397

published as A&A 588, A23 (2016) · 18 pages, 14 Figures, 4 Tables: Accepted for publication in A&A

arxiv created 2015/12/18 · openalex publication_date 2016/01/22 · arxiv updated 2016/03/16 · openalex created_date 2022/08/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Context. Tracing the molecular gas-phase in low-mass star-forming galaxies becomes extremely challenging due to significant UV photo-dissociation of CO molecules in their low-dust, low-metallicity ISM environments.

Citations

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• COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies - II. The non-universality of the molecular gas depletion time-scale
• Dynamics of starbursting dwarf galaxies

Cited by

• Relation between the parameters of dust and of molecular and atomic gas in extragalactic star-forming regions
• Photodissociation region diagnostics across galactic environments
• Cosmic evolution of molecular gas mass density from an empirical relationship between L1.4 GHz and L′CO
• Scaling relations and baryonic cycling in local star-forming galaxies
• NOEMA Observations of a Molecular Cloud in the Low-metallicity Galaxy Kiso 5639

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• The Molecular ISM in Low Surface Brightness Disk Galaxies
• Molecular gas and the dynamics of galaxies
• Stellar Populations and Molecular Gas Composition in the Low-Metallicity Environment of WLM
• A molecular gas phase in the Cold Neutral Medium?
• Modeling the molecular gas content and CO-to-H2 conversion factors in low-metallicity star-forming dwarf galaxies