Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008ap%26ss.313..145k&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 313, Issue 1-3, pp. 145-151
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Magellanic Clouds, The Galaxy, The Galactic Center, Sub-Millimeter
Scientific paper
Star formation is a fundamental process that dominates the life-cycle of various matters in galaxies: Stars are formed in molecular clouds, and the formed stars often affect the surrounding materials strongly via their UV photons, stellar winds, and supernova explosions. It is therefore revealing the distribution and properties of molecular gas in a galaxy is crucial to investigate the star formation history and galaxy evolution. Recent progress in developing millimeter and sub-millimeter wave receiver systems has enabled us to rapidly increase our knowledge on molecular clouds. In this proceedings, the recent results from the surveys of the molecular clouds in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds as well as the Galactic center as the most active regions in the Milky Way are presented. The high sensitivity with unrivaled high resolution of ALMA will play a key role in detecting denser gas that is tightly connected to star formation.
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