A Multiwavelength Inventory for the Local Group L-band Survey I: Atlas and Radial Profiles of Local Group Galaxies
Cosima Eibensteiner, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun, Erik Roslowsky, Eric W. Koch, Nickolas Pingel, Chang-Goo Kim, Laura B. Chomiuk, Ryan Chown, Alberto D. Bolatto, Michael P. Busch, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Amanda A. Kepley, Christina W. Lindberg, Eve C. Ostriker, Jürgen Ott, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Adam Smercina, Snežana Stanimirović, Elizabeth Tarantino, Vicente Villanueva, Tobin M. Wainer, Fabian Walter, Thomas G. Williams
astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-07-23
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJS; 21 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables Public avaible data under: https://dx.doi.org/10.11570/26.0020
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Resolving atomic gas at 100 pc physical resolution is currently feasible only for the very nearest galaxies.
Terminology
Abstract
Resolving atomic gas at 100 pc physical resolution is currently feasible only for the very nearest galaxies. We combine 120 pc resolution HI data using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) from the first data release of the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS) with uniformly processed infrared, ultraviolet, H alpha, and CO maps. We analyze the radial profiles of gas, stars, and recent star formation for six local galaxies: M31, M33, IC 10, IC 1613, NGC 6822, and WLM. Across the sample, atomic-gas disks are the most extended component, reaching r HI=2.8 - 5.8 kpc in the dwarfs and 13 - 26 kpc in M33 and M31. Azimuthally averaged HI profiles are often flat or only slowly declining compared to the steeper decline of and SFR, with outer HI scale lengths of l HI outer about1.0 - 8.5 kpc. The mass-weighted HI surface densities on 120 pc scale generally exceed the azimuthally averaged values by 10-70%, showing that localized high-column-density atomic structures persist even where azimuthally averaged profiles appear smooth. Atomic-gas depletion times rise from tau dep atom about0.8-17 Gyr within the stellar half-mass radius to 10s-100 Gyr in the outer disks. Molecular depletion times are shorter. We provide a public release of these multi-wavelength data, which provide a valuable reference for the LGLBS targets and also form the basis for a companion paper that relates star formation, gas phases, and midplane pressure on 120 pc scales.
Sources
- The Life and Times of Giant Molecular Clouds
- The Radial and Vertical Structure of Molecular Gas in the Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4565
- HI in Molecular Clouds: Irradiation by FUV plus Cosmic Rays
Related papers
- Apparent Stability in Self-Gravitating Turbulence and the Evolution of Molecular Clouds
- Two sets of potential-density basis pairs for the study of radial perturbations in collisionless spherical stellar systems
- Constraining reionization-era Ly alpha escape with JELS-MUSE: a highly complete H alpha-selected sample at z about6.1
- Deriving volume density profiles of filaments from observed surface densities
- Little Red Dots and Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation in Ultralight Dark Matter Halos
- MEGATRON: how the first stars can create an iron metallicity plateau in the smallest dwarf galaxies