Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS - Catalogs ("PHANGS-CAT")

The PHANGS program is building a panchromatic dataset to enable the multi-phase, multi-scale study of star formation across nearby spiral galaxies.  PHANGS combines Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) CO(2-1) mapping, Very Large Telescope/Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (VLT/MUSE) optical spectroscopy, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV-optical imaging, and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) infrared imaging among other supporting datasets.   PHANGS is using these data to study the star formation cycle and various phases of the interstellar medium.

Here, the team provides catalog products from the PHANGS survey. The PHANGS-HST Treasury has yielded a V-band selected census of ~100,000 star clusters and compact associations across the disks of 38 spiral galaxies (plus 1 companion dwarf galaxy) at distances of 4-23 Mpc.