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Refereed Publications

The Supershell-Molecular Cloud Connection: Large-Scale Stellar Feedback and the Formation of the Molecular ISM
Dawson, J. R., 2013, PASA, in press [ADS]

Testing maser-based evolutionary schemes: a new search for 37.7-GHz methanol masers
Ellingsen, S. P.; Breen, S. L.; Voronkov, M. A.; Dawson, J. R., MNRAS, 543 [ADS]

Supergiant Shells and Molecular Cloud Formation in the LMC
Dawson, J. R., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Wong, T., Dickey, J. M., Hughes, A., Fukui, Y., Kawamura, A., 2013, ApJ, 736, 56 [ADS]

GASKAP – The Galactic ASKAP Survey
Dickey, J. M., McClure-Griffiths, N., Gibson, S. J., Gomez, J. F., Imai, H., Jones, P., Stanimirovic, S., van Loon, J. Th., Walsh, A., Alberdi, A., Anglada, G., Uscanga, L., Arce, H., Bailey, M., Begum, A., Wakker, B., Ben Bekhti, N., Kalberla, P., Winkel, B., Bekki, K., For, B.-Q., Staveley-Smith, L., Westmeier, T., Burton, M., Cunningham, M., Dawson, J. R., and 31 others, 2012, PASA, in press [ADS]

The Carina Flare: What can fragments in the wall tell us?

Wunsch, R., Jachym, P., Sidorin, V., Ehlerova, S., Palous, J., Dale, J., Dawson, J. R., Fukui, Y., 2012, A&A, 539, 116 [ADS]

Molecular Clouds in Supershells: A Case Study of Three Objects in the Walls of GSH 287+04-17 and GSH 277+00+36
Dawson, J. R., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Dickey, J. M., Fukui, Y., 2011, ApJ, 741, 85 [ADS]


Molecular Clouds in the Trifid Nebula M20: Possible Evidence for a Cloud-Cloud Collision in Triggering the Formation of the First Generation Stars
Torii, K., Enokiya, R., Sano, H., Yoshiike, S., Hanaoka, N., Ohama, A., Furukawa, N., Dawson, J. R., Moribe, N., Oishi, K., Nakashima, Y., Okuda, T., Yamamoto, H., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Maezawa, H., Onishi, T., Mizuno, A., Fukui, Y. 2011, ApJ, 738, 46 [ADS]

Supershells as Molecular Cloud Factories: Parsec Resolution Observations of HI and 12CO(J=1-0) in GSH 287+04-17 and GSH 277+00+36
Dawson, J. R., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., Mizuno, A., Fukui, Y., 2011, ApJ, 278, 127 [ADS]

Revisiting the Westerlund 2 field with the HESS telescope array
H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Aharonian, F., Akhperjanian, A. G., Anton, G., Barnacka, A., Barres de Almeida, U., Bazer-Bachi, A. R., Becherini, Y. and 187 authors, including Dawson, J. R., 2011, A&A, 525, 46 [ADS]

Temperature and Density Distribution in the Molecular Gas Toward Westerlund 2: Further Evidence for Physical Association
Ohama, A., Dawson, J. R., Furukawa, N., Kawamura, A., Moribe, N., Yamamoto, H., Okuda, T., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., Maezawa, H., Minamidani, T., Mizuno, A., Fukui, Y., 2010, ApJ, 709, 975 [ADS]

A Peculiar Jet and Arc of Molecular Gas toward the Rich and Young Stellar Cluster Westerlund 2 and a TeV Gamma Ray Source
Fukui, Y., Furukawa, N., Dame, T. M., Dawson, J. R., Yamamoto, H., Rowell, G. P., Aharonian, F., Hofmann, W., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Minamidani, T., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., Mizuno, A., Nagataki, S., 2009, PASJ, 61, L23 [ADS]

Molecular Clouds Toward RCW49 and Westerlund 2: Evidence for Cluster Formation Triggered by Cloud-Cloud Collision
Furukawa, N., Dawson, J. R., Ohama, A., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., Fukui, Y., 2009, ApJ, 696, L115 [ADS]

Catalogue of 12CO(J=1-0) and 13CO(J=1-0) Molecular Clouds in the Carina Flare Supershell
Dawson, J. R., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., & Fukui, Y. 2008, PASJ, 60, 1297 [ADS]

The "Carina Flare" Supershell: Probing the Atomic and Molecular ISM in a Galactic Chimney
Dawson, J. R., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., & Fukui, Y. 2008, MNRAS, 387, 31 [ADS]


Selected Conference Proceedings

The Supershell-Molecular Cloud Connection in the Milky Way and Beyond
Dawson, J. R.,
McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Fukui, Y., Dickey, J., Wong, T., Hughes, A., Kawamura, A. In Proceedings of IAU Symposium 292, "Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies", 2013, in press [ADS]

Supershells in the Multi-Phase Milky Way: Insights from HI Synthesis Imaging and CO Surveys
Dawson, J. R., McClure-Griffiths, N. M., Fukui, Y., EAS Publications Series, Volume 56, "The Role of the Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs. Infall?", 2012, pp.155-158 [ADS]


PhD Thesis

Supershells as Molecular Cloud Factories in the Evolving ISM: Observations of HI and 12CO in the Galactic Supershells GSH 287+04-17 and GSH 277+00+36
Nagoya University, November 2010 [Abstract]