The Resolved Properties of Extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds
The Resolved Properties of Extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds
We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and mass-luminosity relations of GMCs in a variety of extragalactic systems. Although the data are heterogeneous, we analyze them in a consistent manner to remove the biases introduced by limited sensitivity and …