Dr Rowan Smith

Dr Rowan Smith

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Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3810
Email
rjs22@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

  • Zoe Faes

Selected publications

  • Open access

    A bottleneck for star formation: the importance of magnetic fields during the formation of cold gas in galaxies

    McGuiness, R., Smith, R. J. & Whitworth, D., 1 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 2, 14 p., stag099.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    An inverted infall profile for the collapse of the massive star-forming IRDC SDC335.579-0.292

    Xie, J., Fuller, G. A., Li, D., Smith, R., Peretto, N., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Duan, Y., Xia, J., Esimbek, J. & Baan, W. A., 1 May 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 548, 2, 18 p., stag644.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    How is cold, star-forming gas in galaxies affected by magnetic fields?

    Bogue, K. R. J., Smith, R. J., Treß, R. G., Low, M.-M. M., Whitworth, D. J., Klessen, R. S., Brucy, N., Girichidis, P., Glover, S. C. O., Göller, J., Soler, J. D. & Traficante, A., 1 Jan 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545, 3, 17 p., staf2132.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Transient protostellar cores in high mass star forming regions revealed by time-resolved synthetic imaging of dust emission

    Peñaloza, C. H., Smith, R. J., Cyganowski, C. J., Williams, G. M., Logue, M. C., Hunter, T. R. & Feng, J., 1 Jan 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543, 3, 20 p., staf2168.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    3D CMZ. I. Central Molecular Zone overview

    Battersby, C., Walker, D. L., Barnes, A., Ginsburg, A., Lipman, D., Alboslani, D., Hatchfield, H. P., Bally, J., Glover, S. C. O., Henshaw, J. D., Immer, K., Klessen, R. S., Longmore, S. N., Mills, E. A. C., Molinari, S., Smith, R., Sormani, M. C., Tress, R. G. & Zhang, Q., 10 May 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 984, 2, 16 p., 156.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    3D CMZ. II. Hierarchical structure analysis of the Central Molecular Zone

    Battersby, C., Walker, D. L., Barnes, A., Ginsburg, A., Lipman, D., Alboslani, D., Hatchfield, H. P., Bally, J., Glover, S. C. O., Henshaw, J. D., Immer, K., Klessen, R. S., Longmore, S. N., Mills, E. A. C., Molinari, S., Smith, R., Sormani, M. C., Tress, R. G. & Zhang, Q., 10 May 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 984, 2, 24 p., 157.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    3D CMZ. III. Constraining the 3D structure of the Central Molecular Zone via molecular line emission and absorption

    Walker, D. L., Battersby, C., Lipman, D., Sormani, M. C., Ginsburg, A., Glover, S. C. O., Henshaw, J. D., Longmore, S. N., Klessen, R. S., Immer, K., Alboslani, D., Bally, J., Barnes, A., Hatchfield, H. P., Mills, E. A. C., Smith, R., Tress, R. G. & Zhang, Q., 10 May 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 984, 2, 24 p., 158.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    3D CMZ. IV. Distinguishing near versus far distances in the galactic center using Spitzer and Herschel

    Lipman, D., Battersby, C., Walker, D. L., Sormani, M. C., Bally, J., Barnes, A., Ginsburg, A., Glover, S. C. O., Henshaw, J. D., Hatchfield, H. P., Immer, K., Klessen, R. S., Longmore, S. N., Mills, E. A. C., Smith, R., Tress, R. G., Alboslani, D. & Zhang, Q., 10 May 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 984, 2, 28 p., 159.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    CO isotopologue-derived molecular gas conditions and CO-to-H2 conversion factors in M51

    den Brok, J., Jiménez-Donaire, M. J., Leroy, A., Schinnerer, E., Bigiel, F., Pety, J., Petitpas, G., Usero, A., Teng, Y.-H., Humire, P., Koch, E. W., Rosolowsky, E., Sandstrom, K., Liu, D., Zhang, Q., Stuber, S., Chevance, M., Dale, D. A., Eibensteiner, C. & Galić, I. & 7 others, Glover, S. C. O., Pan, H.-A., Querejeta, M., Smith, R. J., Williams, T. G., Wilner, D. J. & Zhang, V., Jan 2025, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 169, 1, 26 p., 18.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Do stars still form in molecular gas within CO-dark dwarf galaxies?

    Whitworth, D. J., Smith, R. J., Glover, S. C. O., Tress, R., Watkins, E. J., Feng, J.-C., Brucy, N., Klessen, R. S. & Clark, P. C., 1 Jan 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536, 3, p. 2936-2955 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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