CO line emission represents the most accessible and widely used tracer of the molecular
ISM. This renders the translation of observed CO intensity into total H2 gas mass critical to …

Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host
galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, ie detailed insight …

This paper describes the identification, modelling, and removal of previously unexplained
systematic effects in the polarization data of the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on …

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, dedicated to studying the early Universe
and its subsequent evolution, was launched 14 May 2009 and has been scanning the …

We present and discuss the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey (HGBS) observations
in an~ 11 deg 2 area of the Aquila molecular cloud complex at d~ 260 pc, imaged with the …

The polarized thermal emission from diffuse Galactic dust is the main foreground present in
measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at …

We summarize the first results from the Gould Belt Survey, obtained toward the Aquila rift
and Polaris Flare regions during the science demonstration phase of Herschel. Our 70–500 …

Context. Molecular filaments have received special attention recently thanks to new
observational results on their properties. In particular, our early analysis of filament …

We provide a first look at the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey toward the IC 5146
molecular cloud and present a preliminary analysis of the filamentary structure in this region …

Stars form within molecular clouds but our understanding of this fundamental process
remains hampered by the complexity of the physics that drives their evolution. We review our …