Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS
PHANGS (Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS) has conducted the principal ALMA Large Program for nearby galaxies, and has obtained CO (2-1) maps for a complete sample of 74 spiral galaxies. HST and JWST imaging spanning from the near-UV to 21 microns for all 74 galaxies is being obtained through five PHANGS programs:
The combination of these surveys provide the first dataset to enable the multi-phase, multi-scale study of star formation across spiral galaxies in the local universe, from star clusters and molecular clouds to galactic disks.
Funding shortfall for Hubble impacts PHANGS science
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Due to a severe reduction in NASA funding for HST programs, we regret to announce that high level image and catalog products will not be released from PHANGS-HST2 (GO-17502), which is supported at a per-orbit-level ~4 times lower than the original PHANGS-HST Treasury program (GO-15654). Funded PHANGS-HST2 activities will focus on science analysis of star clusters, and will exclude the study of multi-scale associations and HII regions that was described in the approved proposal.
PHANGS Press and Data release
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On Monday January 29th 2024 there was a press and data release for PHANGS-HST-JWST
STScI/MAST PHANGS parent website
Direct access to STScI Office of Public Outreach color images
PHANGS-JWST ApJL First Results Special Issue
PHANGS JWST First Results JWST is revolutionizing fields across astrophysics, and chief among them is the study of the earliest stages of star formation and the dusty interstellar medium (ISM). On February 2023, a special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters was printed to celebrate the first results.
A JWST Cycle 1 Treasury Program to image 19/38 galaxies with full coverage by ALMA/MUSE/HST with NIRCAM and MIRI has been approved. A January 2022 article entitled Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies With NASA’s Webb provides an overview of the PHANGS-JWST survey understandable to the public.
PHANGS-CAT Data Release 1 (2022)
PHANGS-CAT DR1 at MAST provides catalogs for compact clusters and a separate set of catalogs for multi-scale associations for five galaxies: NGC 1433, NGC 1566, NGC 1559, NGC 3351, and NGC 3627. Please see the PHANGS-CAT site at MAST for more information.
PHANGS-HST Data Releases 1 & 2 (2021)
PHANGS-HST DR1 & DR2 at MAST provides imaging for all 38 galaxies in the sample, as well as visualization tools, and neural network models for star cluster morphological classification. Please see the PHANGS HST site at MAST for more information.
HST and ALMA: Probing the life-cycle of star formation regions
PHANGS-HST and PHANGS-ALMA observations of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC1559. The high angular resolution afforded by HST allows for the identification of individual young star clusters that have just emerged from their birth cloud as seen by ALMA.
STScI/MAST PHANGS-HST-JWST data products access tables
PHANGS Team See the full list of PHANGS team members
PHANGS-HST Publications List of PHANGS-HST publications in ADS
PHANGS-HST News
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29JUN2020 NGC 2775 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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14SEP2020 NGC 2835 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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05OCT2020 NGC 1365 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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02DEC2020 NGC 1792 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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01JAN2021 Release of the 2021 ESA/Hubble Calendar |
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11JAN2021 PHANGS HST MAST DR1 |
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18JAN2021 NGC 4535 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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22FEB2021 NGC 4826 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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24FEB2021 M66 Astronomy Picture of the Day. |
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05APR2021 M61 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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02AUG2021 IC1954 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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16AUG2021 NGC1385 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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25OCT2021 NGC2903 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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29NOV2021 NGC1317 ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. |
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19JAN2022 Capturing All That Glitters in Galaxies With NASA’s Webb |