Paper: 2018ApJ...860..172S (acknowledgments)
We would like to thank the anonymous referee for valuable comments that helped us improve the manuscript. J.S. and A.K.L. thank Eve Ostriker and David Weinberg for useful discussions. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA# 2011.0.00876.S, 2012.1.00650.S, 2015.1.00925.S, and 2015.1.00956.S. These ALMA programs are described in Whitmore et al. ( 2014 ) and A. K. Leroy et al. (in preparation). ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA), and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This work also makes use of data from the CARMA M31 survey (A. Schruba et al., in preparation), the IRAM M33 large program (Gratier et al. 2010 ; Druard et al. 2014 ), and the PdBI Arcsecond Whirlpool Survey (Pety et al. 2013 ; Schinnerer et al. 2013 ). Both the IRAM 30 m telescope and PdBI are run by IRAM, which is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany), and IGN (Spain). We acknowledge the usage of the Extragalactic Distance Database 23 23 http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu/index.html (Tully et al. 2009 ), the HyperLeda database 24 24 http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr (Makarov et al. 2014 ), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, 25 25 http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu and the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. 26 26 http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu J.S., A.K.L., and D.U. are supported by the National Science Foundation under grants No. 1615105, 1615109, and 1653300. E.R. acknowledges the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), funding reference number RGPIN-2017-03987. A.H. acknowledges support from the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). J.M.D.K. and M.C. gratefully acknowledge funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the form of an Emmy Noether Research Group (grant number KR4801/1-1, PI Kruijssen). J.M.D.K. gratefully acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program via the ERC Starting Grant MUSTANG (grant agreement number 714907, PI Kruijssen). E.S. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 694343). G.B. is supported by CONICYT/FONDECYT, Programa de Iniciación, Folio 11150220. A.P.S.H. is a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg (IMPRS-HD). J.P. acknowledges support from the Programme National “Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire” (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU with INC/INP co-funded by CEA and CNES. A.U. acknowledges support from Spanish MINECO grants ESP2015-68964 and AYA2016-79006. Facilities: ALMA , IRAM:30m , IRAM:Interferometer , CARMA . Software: IPython (Perez Granger 2007 ), NumPy (Oliphant 2007 ), SciPy (Oliphant 2007 ), Matplotlib (Hunter 2007 ), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration 2013 ), emcee (Foreman-Mackey et al. 2013 ), CASA (McMullin et al. 2007 ).