Elizabeth Watkins

A steep mass transition for bar-driven interstellar medium structuring revealed by PHANGS-JWST

Galactic bars are thought to play a critical role in the secular evolution of their hosts by, for example, reorganising the interstellar medium (ISM). We used a sample of 57 star-forming disc galaxies observed with JWST at 3 and 7.7 µm to probe how the spatial distribution of pol...