The Milky Way as key to understanding the inward transport of matter to the centre of galaxies

Project Information

GalFlow

Grant agreement ID: 101116226

DOI

10.3030/101116226

EC signature date 15 November 2023

Start date 1 April 2024

End date 31 March 2029

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 281,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 281,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'INSUBRIA
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Do spiral arms enhance star formation efficiency?

Author(s): Miguel Querejeta, Adam K. Leroy, Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Francesco Belfiore, Eric Emsellem, Ralf S. Klessen, Jiayi Sun, Mattia Sormani, Ivana Bešlić, Yixian Cao, Mélanie Chevance, Dario Colombo, Daniel A. Dale, Santiago García-Burillo, Simon C. O. Glover, Kathryn Grasha, Brent Groves, Eric. W. Koch, Lukas Neumann, Hsi-An Pan, Ismael Pessa, Jérôme Pety, Francesca Pinna, Lise Ramambason, Alessandro Razza, Andrea Romanelli, Erik Rosolowsky, Marina Ruiz-García, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Rowan Smith, Sophia Stuber, Leonardo Ubeda, Antonio Usero, Thomas G. Williams
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 687, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.05364

Distribution Function-based Modeling of Discrete Kinematic Datasets, in Application to the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

Author(s): Eugene Vasiliev, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Mattia C. Sormani
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 1002, 2026, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2603.29502

The LEGARE Project

Author(s): E. Spitoni, M. Schultheis, F. Matteucci, N. Ryde, G. Cescutti, A. Saro, M. C. Sormani, B. Thorsbro
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 707, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2601.21032

3D CMZ. IV. Distinguishing Near versus Far Distances in the Galactic Center Using Spitzer and Herschel

Author(s): Dani Lipman, Cara Battersby, Daniel L. Walker, Mattia C. Sormani, John Bally, Ashley Barnes, Adam Ginsburg, Simon C. O. Glover, Jonathan D. Henshaw, H Perry Hatchfield, Katharina Immer, Ralf S. Klessen, Steven N. Longmore, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Rowan Smith, R. G. Tress, Danya Alboslani, Qizhou Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 984, 2025, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.17321

Chemical analysis of the Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster

Author(s): M. Schultheis, L. Serrano, B. Thorsbro, F. Nogueras-Lara, A. Feldmeier-Krause, G. Nandakumar, K. Fiteni, M. C. Sormani, N. Ryde
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 705, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.08387

Nuclear stellar discs

Author(s): Mathias Schultheis, Mattia C. Sormani, Dimitri A. Gadotti
Published in: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Issue 33, 2026, ISSN 0935-4956
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2509.04562

Testing kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential

Author(s): Glen H. Hunter, Mattia C. Sormani, Jan P. Beckmann, Eugene Vasiliev, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen, Juan D. Soler, Noé Brucy, Philipp Girichidis, Junia Göller, Loke Ohlin, Robin Tress, Sergio Molinari, Ortwin Gerhard, Milena Benedettini, Rowan Smith, Patrick Hennebelle, Leonardo Testi
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 692, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.18000

Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)

Author(s): Sofue Y., Oka T., Longmore S. N., Walker D., Ginsburg A., Henshaw J. D., Bally J., Barnes A. T., Battersby C., Colzi L., Ho P., Jimenez-Serra I., Kruijssen J. M. D., Mills E., Petkova M. A., Sormani M. C., Wallace J., Armijos-Abendaño J., Dutkowska K. M.,
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), Issue 77, 2025, ISSN 2053-051X
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP) on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2506.11553

Spectrum and Polarization of the Galactic Center Radio Transient ASKAP J173608.2–321635 from THOR-GC and VLITE

Author(s): Kierra J. Weatherhead, Jeroen M. Stil, Michael Rugel, Wendy M. Peters, Loren Anderson, Ashley Barnes, Henrik Beuther, Tracy E. Clarke, Sergio A. Dzib, Paul Goldsmith, Karl M. Menten, Kristina E. Nyland, Mattia C. Sormani, James Urquhart
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 970, 2024, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.13183

Turbulent Pressure Heats Gas and Suppresses Star Formation in Galactic Bar Molecular Clouds

Author(s): Andy Nilipour, Juergen Ott, David S. Meier, Brian Svoboda, Mattia C. Sormani, Adam Ginsburg, Savannah R. Gramze, Natalie O. Butterfield, Ralf S. Klessen
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 977, 2024, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.09258

Rotation and stability of the circumnuclear gas disk in the Galactic Center potential by the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)

Author(s): Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N Longmore, Daniel Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Jonathan D Henshaw, John Bally, Ashley T Barnes, Cara Battersby, Laura Colzi, Paul Ho, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, J M Diederik Kruijssen, Elizabeth Mills, Maya A Petkova, Mattia C Sormani, Jen Wallace, Jairo Armijos-Abendaño, Zi-Xuan Feng, Karl Fiteni, Pablo García, Savannah Gramze, Christian Henkel, Pei-Ying Hsieh, Ralf S Klessen, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Dylan M Paré, Victor M Rivilla, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Issue 78, 2026, ISSN 0004-6264
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.22751

Disruption of a massive molecular cloud by a supernova in the Galactic Centre

Author(s): M. Nonhebel, A. T. Barnes, K. Immer, J. Armijos-Abendaño, J. Bally, C. Battersby, M. G. Burton, N. Butterfield, L. Colzi, P. García, A. Ginsburg, J. D. Henshaw, Y. Hu, I. Jiménez-Serra, R. S. Klessen, J. M. D. Kruijssen, F.-H. Liang, S. N. Longmore, X. Lu, S. Martín, E. A. C. Mills, F. Nogueras-Lara, M. A. Petkova, J. E. Pineda, V. M. Rivilla, Á. Sánchez-Monge, M. G. Santa-Maria, H. A. Smith, Y. Sofue, M. C. Sormani, V. Tolls, D. L. Walker, J. Wallace, Q. D. Wang, G. M. Williams, F.-W. Xu
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2409.12185

Introducing the Rhea simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies

Author(s): Junia Göller, Philipp Girichidis, Noé Brucy, Glen Hunter, Karin Kjellgren, Robin Tress, Ralf S. Klessen, Simon C. O. Glover, Patrick Hennebelle, Sergio Molinari, Rowan Smith, Juan D. Soler, Mattia C. Sormani, Leonardo Testi
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 704, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.02646

25 years of <i>XMM-Newton</i> observations of the Sgr A complex

Author(s): Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Francesco Haardt, Mattia Sormani
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 695, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2501.09737

3D CMZ. II. Hierarchical Structure Analysis of the Central Molecular Zone

Author(s): Cara Battersby, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley Barnes, Adam Ginsburg, Dani Lipman, Danya Alboslani, H Perry Hatchfield, John Bally, Simon C. O. Glover, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Katharina Immer, Ralf S. Klessen, Steven N. Longmore, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Sergio Molinari, Rowan Smith, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Qizhou Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 984, 2025, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.17332

Molecular gas and star formation in central rings across nearby galaxies

Author(s): Damian R. Gleis, Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer, Justus Neumann, Sharon E. Meidt, Miguel Querejeta, Eric Emsellem, Adam K. Leroy, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Charlie Burton, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, Kathryn Grasha, Ralf S. Klessen, Rebecca C. Levy, Lukas Neumann, Hsi-An Pan, Marina Ruiz-García, Mattia C. Sormani, Jiayi Sun, Yu-Hsuan Teng, Thomas G. Williams
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 707, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2601.11127

Extreme cloud collisions in nearby barred galaxies

Author(s): Tutku Kolcu, Mattia C Sormani, Witold Maciejewski, Sophia K Stuber, Eva Schinnerer, Francesca Fragkoudi, Ashley T Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Mélanie Chevance, Dario Colombo, Éric Emsellem, Simon C O Glover, Jonathan D Henshaw, Ralf S Klessen, Sharon E Meidt, Justus Neumann, Francesca Pinna, Miguel Querejeta, Thomas G Williams
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 541, 2025, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2507.04530

Star formation in extreme environments: A 200 pc high velocity gas stream in the Galactic centre

Author(s): V. S. Veena, W.-J. Kim, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, P. Schilke, K. M. Menten, G. A. Fuller, M. C. Sormani, F. Wyrowski, W. E. Banda-Barragán, D. Riquelme, P. Tarrío, P. de Vicente
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 689, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.14338

Metallicity-dependent kinematics and orbits in the Milky Way’s nuclear stellar disc

Author(s): F. Nogueras-Lara, N. Nieuwmunster, M. Schultheis, M. C. Sormani, F. Fragkoudi, B. Thorsbro, R. M. Rich, N. Ryde, J. L. Sanders, L. C. Smith
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 690, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2409.15279

Discovery of a Giant Molecular Cloud at the Midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes: M4.7–0.8

Author(s): Natalie O. Butterfield, Larry K. Morgan, Ashley T. Barnes, Adam Ginsburg, Savannah Gramze, Mark R. Morris, Mattia C. Sormani, Cara D. Battersby, Charlie Burton, Allison H. Costa, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Jürgen Ott, Michael Rugel, Harrison West
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 988, 2025, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.14174

Disentangling the Galactic centre X-ray reflection signal using <i>XMM-Newton</i> data

Author(s): K. Anastasopoulou, I. Khabibullin, E. Churazov, G. Ponti, M. C. Sormani, R. A. Sunyaev, C. Maitra, S. Piscitelli
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 698, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.09672

Kinematic diagnostics for non-axisymmetry in the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc

Author(s): K. Fiteni, X. Li, M. C. Sormani, V. P. Debattista, A. Vasini, F. Nogueras-Lara, J. L. Sanders, N. Deg, M. Schultheis, M. Donati, Z.-X. Feng
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2603.18738

The edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disc: Evidence from a ’U-shaped’ stellar age profile

Author(s): Karl Fiteni, Stuart Robert Anderson, Victor. P. Debattista, Joseph Caruana, João A. S. Amarante, Steven Gough-Kelly, Laurent Eyer, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Tigran Khachaturyants, Virginia Cuomo
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 708, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2603.18737

Unveiling the 3D structure of the central molecular zone from stellar kinematics and photometry: The 50 and 20 km/s clouds

Author(s): Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Ashley T. Barnes, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Karl Fiteni, Yoshiaki Sofue, Rainer Schödel, Álvaro Martínez-Arranz, Mattia C. Sormani, Jairo Armijos-Abendaño, Laura Colzi, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra, Víctor M. Rivilla, Pablo García, Adam Ginsburg, Yue Hu, Ralf S. Klessen, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Volker Tolls, Alex Lazarian, Dani R. Lipman, Steven N. Longmore, Xing Lu, Sergio Martín, Denise Riquelme-Vásquez, Jaime E. Pineda, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Arianna Vasini, Elisabeth A. C. Mills
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 706, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2601.05252

Simulating nearby disc galaxies on the main star formation sequence

Author(s): Pierrick Verwilghen, Eric Emsellem, Florent Renaud, Milena Valentini, Jiayi Sun, Sarah Jeffreson, Ralf S. Klessen, Mattia C. Sormani, Ashley T. Barnes, Klaus Dolag, Kathryn Grasha, Fu-Heng Liang, Sharon Meidt, Justus Neumann, Miguel Querejeta, Eva Schinnerer, Thomas G. Williams
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 687, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.09791

Reconciling 3D Models for the Central 10 pc of the Milky Way

Author(s): Elisabeth A.C. Mills, Natalie O. Butterfield, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Dani Lipman, Adam Ginsburg, Mattia C. Sormani, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Cara D. Battersby, Ashley T. Barnes, Simon C. O. Glover, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Mark R. Morris, Juergen Ott, Cornelia Lang, Claire Cook, Xinyu Mai
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 1001, 2026, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2603.02211

The Galactic inner spiral arms revealed by the <i>Gaia</i> ESO Survey chemical abundances

Author(s): C. Viscasillas Vázquez, L. Magrini, E. Spitoni, G. Cescutti, G. Tautvaišienè, A. Vasini, S. Randich, G. G. Sacco
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 698, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.16905

Kinematic and extinction analysis of a potential spiral arm beyond the Galactic bar

Author(s): Simran Joharle, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Karl Fiteni
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 705, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2511.04778

Dynamical resonances in PHANGS galaxies

Author(s): Marina Ruiz-García, Miguel Querejeta, Santiago García-Burillo, Eric Emsellem, Sharon E. Meidt, Mattia C. Sormani, Eva Schinnerer, Thomas G. Williams, Zein Bazzi, Dario Colombo, Damian R. Gleis, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Ralf S. Klessen, Adam K. Leroy, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Sophia K. Stuber
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.13353

3D CMZ. I. Central Molecular Zone Overview

Author(s): Cara Battersby, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley Barnes, Adam Ginsburg, Dani Lipman, Danya Alboslani, H Perry Hatchfield, John Bally, Simon C. O. Glover, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Katharina Immer, Ralf S. Klessen, Steven N. Longmore, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Sergio Molinari, Rowan Smith, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress, Qizhou Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 984, 2025, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.17334

3D CMZ. III. Constraining the 3D Structure of the Central Molecular Zone via Molecular Line Emission and Absorption

Author(s): Daniel L. Walker, Cara Battersby, Dani Lipman, Mattia C. Sormani, Adam Ginsburg, Simon C. O. Glover, Jonathan D. Henshaw, Steven N. Longmore, Ralf S. Klessen, Katharina Immer, Danya Alboslani, John Bally, Ashley Barnes, H Perry Hatchfield, Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Rowan Smith, Robin G. Tress, Qizhou Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 984, 2025, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.17320

Magnetic field morphology and evolution in the Central Molecular Zone and its effect on gas dynamics

Author(s): R. G. Tress, M. C. Sormani, P. Girichidis, S. C. O. Glover, R. S. Klessen, R. J. Smith, E. Sobacchi, L. Armillotta, A. T. Barnes, C. Battersby, K. R. J. Bogue, N. Brucy, L. Colzi, C. Federrath, P. García, A. Ginsburg, J. Göller, H P. Hatchfield, C. Henkel, P. Hennebelle, J. D. Henshaw, M. Hirschmann, Y. Hu, J. Kauffmann, J. M. D. Kruijssen, A. Lazarian, D. Lipman, S. N. Longmore, M. R. Morris, F. Nogueras-Lara, M. A. Petkova, T. G. S. Pillai, V. M. Rivilla, Á. Sánchez-Monge, J. D. Soler, D. Whitworth, Q. Zhang
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 691, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.13048