20–27 Mar 2026
Wild View Resorts
Africa/Gaborone timezone

Dust properties of molecular clouds in M33: A case of NGC 604 and GMC 16

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20m
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Plot 80 President Avenue, Kasane, Botswana
Online - Poster Presentation 10 S&E poster Science & Engineering

Speaker

Ms Fauziyya Muhammad Auwal (Kaduna State University, Nigeria.)

Description

Investigating molecular clouds in External galaxies provides a valuable opportunity to explore how the distribution and dynamical state of star-forming regions are shaped by their galactic environment. This study investigates the dust properties of molecular clouds in Triangulum galaxy (M33) with a special focus on two giant molecular clouds (NGC 604 and GMC 16), using a calibrated data source from Atama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6. Using the Astrodendro of dendrogram analysis we identified three millimeter sources (MMS) in NGC 604 and one millimeter source (MMS) in GMC 16, we estimated dust mass and gas mass from the millimeter sources in both regions, with a dust temperature of 22K and gas-to-dust ratio of 200, yielding a dust masses of approximately 1.50e-1 solar masses, for a molecular clouds in M33. This analysis incorporates methodologies from literature reviews to compare dust mass estimates and explore correlations between dust in the Milky Way and Nearby galaxies.

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Primary author

Ms Fauziyya Muhammad Auwal (Kaduna State University, Nigeria.)

Co-authors

Prof. Gyuk Philip Musa (Kaduna State University, Nigeria.) Dr Saul Paul Phiri (Copperbelt University, KItwe Zambia) Dr Lawal Hammed Adeniyi (Air Force Institute of Technology, Nigeria)

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