Title: Fueling Star Formation in Galaxies: Recurring Themes and New Opportunities
Speaker: Tony Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract:
Recent surveys of nearby galaxies using optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS), in conjunction with more sensitive millimeter-wave facilities for conducting CO surveys, provide new opportunities to study the regulation and fading of star formation. In this talk, I provide an overview of the Extragalactic Database for Galaxy Evolution (EDGE), an ongoing effort to combine spatially resolved CO data from CARMA and ALMA-ACA with the CALIFA IFS survey, and briefly review recent results in the context of both galaxy-scale and local-scale conceptions of star formation regulation. I will also discuss how studies of our nearest star-forming neighbor, the LMC, can complement extragalactic surveys by revealing the connections between stars and gas down to sub-parsec scales, and the opportunities to extend this work using the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper.
