Astrochemistry during the formation of stars

JK Jørgensen, A Belloche… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT galactic center mosaic

I Heywood, I Rammala, F Camilo… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The inner∼ 200 pc region of the Galaxy contains a 4 million M⊙ supermassive black hole
(SMBH), significant quantities of molecular gas, and star formation and cosmic-ray energy …

Cloud–cloud collisions and triggered star formation

Y Fukui, A Habe, T Inoue, R Enokiya… - Publications of the …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Star formation is a fundamental process for galactic evolution. One issue over the last
several decades has been determining whether star formation is induced by external …

Re-exploring Molecular Complexity with ALMA (ReMoCA): Interstellar detection of urea

A Belloche, RT Garrod, HSP Müller, KM Menten… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. Urea, NH 2 C (O) NH 2, is a molecule of great importance in organic chemistry and
biology. Two searches for urea in the interstellar medium have been reported in the past, but …

The MPIfR–MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey–I. System set-up and early results

PV Padmanabh, ED Barr, SS Sridhar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Galactic plane radio surveys play a key role in improving our understanding of a wide range
of astrophysical phenomena. Performing such a survey using the latest interferometric …

The episodic and multiscale Galactic Centre

A Bryant, A Krabbe - New Astronomy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Within the central few hundred parsecs of the Milky Way, extending from longitude l=− 1° to
1.5°, lies the Central Molecular Zone of the Galactic Centre. This extraordinary region is …

Complex organic molecules in the Galactic Centre: the N-bearing family

S Zeng, I Jiménez-Serra, VM Rivilla… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an unbiased spectral line survey towards the Galactic Centre (GC) quiescent
giant molecular cloud, G+ 0.693 using the GBT and IRAM 30 telescopes. Our study …

Forming super star clusters in the central starburst of NGC 253

AK Leroy, AD Bolatto, EC Ostriker… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
NGC 253 hosts the nearest nuclear starburst. Previous observations show a region rich in
molecular gas, with dense clouds associated with recent star formation. We used the …

Cloud–cloud collision as drivers of the chemical complexity in Galactic Centre molecular clouds

S Zeng, Q Zhang, I Jiménez-Serra… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT G+ 0.693-0.03 is a quiescent molecular cloud located within the Sagittarius B2
(Sgr B2) star-forming complex. Recent spectral surveys have shown that it represents one of …

The Role of Outflows, Radiation Pressure, and Magnetic Fields in Massive Star Formation

AL Rosen, MR Krumholz - The Astronomical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar feedback in the form of radiation pressure and magnetically driven collimated
outflows may limit the maximum mass that a star can achieve and affect the star formation …