seems like either something super easy to game or another stat to get way too caught up in

especially since current music scholarships usually require you to major in it

Thank you!

Huge thank you to my advisors Molly Finn and Remy Indebetouw, as well as my god-advisor @profkelsey.bsky.social ! Also thanks to NRAO and the NSF for funding this work!

In our next work we will be looking at what the dense gas tracers HCO+ and HCN can tell is about the conditions of the molecular clouds in the Antennae Overlap

4) While some other SSC-forming galaxies are similar to the Antennae, several have properties in between normal and galactic center clouds

3) This puts the Antennae cloud properties in like with those at the centers of galaxies, even though the galactic centers aren’t forming SSCs

2) Antennae overlap molecular clouds have densities, pressures, and turbulent kinetic energies that are orders of magnitude higher than more normal, milky way-like galaxies

1) The densest Antennae overlap molecular clouds do not have significant thermal emission, indicating that they haven’t formed massive stars yet

With our CO data, as well as archival 3.6 cm observations, we found that:

What are super star clusters (SSCs)? They are the young analogs of globular clusters that are still being formed in galaxies. Studying their birth conditions can give us insight into how globular clusters formed.

We use ALMA CO(2-1) observations so study to study the conditions of the Antennae galaxies and learn why there able to form super star clusters