Journal article
Extreme giant molecular clouds in the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 3256
Abstract
ABSTRACT We present a cloud decomposition of 12CO (2–1) observations of the merger and nearest luminous infrared galaxy, NGC 3256. 185 spatially and spectrally resolved clouds are identified across the central ≈130 kpc2 at 90 pc resolution and completeness is estimated. We compare our cloud catalogue from NGC 3256 to ten galaxies observed in the PHANGS-ALMA survey. Distributions in NGC 3256 of cloud velocity dispersions (median 23 km s−1), …
Authors
Brunetti N; Wilson CD
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 515, No. 2, pp. 2928–2950
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
August 3, 2022
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stac1975
ISSN
0035-8711