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Molecular Gas in Galaxies at all Redshifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Françoise Combes
Françoise Combes*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, LERMA and CNRS, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, F-75014 Paris, France email: francoise.combes@obspm.fr
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Abstract

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I review some recent results about the molecular content of galaxies, obtained essentially from the CO lines, but also dense tracers, or the dust continuum emission. New results have been obtained on molecular cloud physics, and their efficiency to form stars, shedding light on the Kennicutt-Schmidt law as a function of surface density and galaxy type. Large progress has been made on galaxy at moderate and high redshifts, allowing to interprete the star formation history and star formation efficiency as a function of gas content, or galaxy evolution. In massive galaxies, the gas fraction was higher in the past, and galaxy disks were more unstable and more turbulent. ALMA observations will allow the study of more normal galaxies at high z with higher spatial resolution and sensitivity.

Keywords

galaxies: generalgalaxies: high-redshiftgalaxies: evolutionISM: moleculegalaxies: ISMgalaxies: spiralgalaxies: starburstgalaxies: structure
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 47 - 54
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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