Frank Bigiel

TL;DR: In this paper, the star formation efficiency (SFE) per unit of gas in 23 nearby galaxies and compare it with expectations from proposed star formation laws and thresholds was measured, and the authors interpreted this decline as a strong dependence of giant molecular cloud (GMC) formation on environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between star formation rate surface density and gas surface density at sub-kpc resolution in a sample of 18 nearby galaxies and investigate how the star formation law differs between the H2 dominated centers of spiral galaxies, their H I dominated outskirts and the H I rich late-type/dwarf galaxies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to find the minimum number of stars in the UHRA data set, which is not available in the data set available in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the differences and trends observed in the FIR line emission of low-metallicity galaxies compared to more metal-rich galaxies and found that the FIR lines together account for up to 3 percent of LTIR and that star-forming regions dominate the overall emission in dwarf galaxies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the star formation efficiency (SFE) in 23 nearby galaxies and compared it to expectations from proposed star formation laws and thresholds. And they found that the SFE of H2 alone is nearly constant at 5.25 +/- 2.25 r_25.