Alex Pettitt

About

Astrophysicist specialising in the structure and morphology of galaxies and the use of numerical simulation techniques. Currently appointed as joint research-teaching staff at Hokkaido University.

Employment

• California State University, Sacramento Assistant Professor
  2021 - Present
• Hokkaido University Assistant Professor
  2016 - 2021
• Hokkaido University Postdoctoral researcher
  2014 - 2016

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

• The impact of galactic structure on star formation Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  2020 - 2022

Publications (38)

• A Map of the Outer Gas Disk of the Galaxy with Direct Distances from Young Stars
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ade232
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• Self-consistent modelling of the Milky Way structure using live potentials
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1469
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• The impact of bar origin and morphology on stellar migration
  Elizabeth J. Iles, Alex R. Pettitt, Takashi Okamoto +1 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3377
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• Star cluster formation and feedback in different environments of a Milky Way-like galaxy
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1917
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• Large-scale velocity-coherent filaments in the SEDIGISM survey: Association with spiral arms and the fraction of dense gas
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2023 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245784
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• Massive core/star formation triggered by cloud–cloud collision – II. High-speed collisions of magnetized clouds
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1089
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• The formation of clusters and OB associations in different density spiral arm environments
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2474
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• Multiwavelength and Multi-CO View of the Minor Merger Driven Star Formation in the Nearby LIRG NGC 3110
  The Astrophysical Journal 2022 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5f41
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• The SEDIGISM survey: The influence of spiral arms on the molecular gas distribution of the inner Milky Way
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2022 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141287
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• Differences in star formation activity between tidally triggered and isolated bars: a case study of NGC 4303 and NGC 3627
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3330
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• The formation of massive stellar clusters in converging galactic flows with photoionization
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3036
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• Massive core/star formation triggered by cloud–cloud collision: Effect of magnetic field
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2021 DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaa059
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• SEDIGISM-ATLASGAL: dense gas fraction and star formation efficiency across the Galactic disc
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2512
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• The SEDIGISM survey: First Data Release and overview of the Galactic structure
  F. Schüller, James S. Urquhart, T. Csengeri

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  • Dario Colombo
  • A. Duarte-Cabral
  • M. Mattern
  • Adam G. Ginsburg
  • Alex R. Pettitt
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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2369
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• The SEDIGISM survey: molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy
  A. Duarte-Cabral, Dario Colombo, James S. Urquhart

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  • Adam G. Ginsburg
  • D. Russeil
  • F. Schüller
  • L. D. Anderson
  • P J Barnes
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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2480
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• Birth sites of young stellar associations and recent star formation in a flocculent corrugated disc
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3189
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• The anatomy of a star-forming galaxy II: FUV heating via dust
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2935
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• How do different spiral arm models impact the ISM and GMC population?
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2242
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• The power of coordinate transformations in dynamical interpretations of Galactic structure
  John Douglas Hunt, Kathryn V. Johnston, Alex R. Pettitt +3 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1987
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• Young stars as tracers of a barred-spiral Milky Way
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3155
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