Molecular clouds in the Milky Way

M Heyer, TM Dame - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In the past twenty years, the reconnaissance of 12CO and 13CO emission in the Milky Way
by single-dish millimeter-wave telescopes has expanded our view and understanding of …

Physical properties of molecular clouds for the entire Milky Way disk

MA Miville-Deschênes, N Murray… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane
and includes 98% of the 12 CO emission observed within $ b\pm 5^\circ $. The catalog was …

A guided map to the spiral arms in the galactic disk of the Milky Way

JP Vallée - Astronomical Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
An up-to-date overview of the recent history is given, aiming is to present a helpful working
guide to the literature and at the same time introduce key systems and observational results …

ATLASGAL–properties of a complete sample of Galactic clumps

JS Urquhart, C König, A Giannetti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) is an unbiased
870 μm submillimetre survey of the inner Galactic plane (| ℓ|< 60° with| b|< 1 5). It is the …

Physical properties and galactic distribution of molecular clouds identified in the galactic ring survey

J Roman-Duval, JM Jackson, M Heyer… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive the physical properties of 580 molecular clouds based on their 12 CO and 13 CO
line emission detected in the University of Massachusetts-Stony Brook (UMSB) and Galactic …

Direct measurements of carbon and sulfur isotope ratios in the Milky Way

YT Yan, C Henkel, C Kobayashi, KM Menten… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Isotope abundance ratios provide a powerful tool for tracing stellar nucleosynthesis,
evaluating the composition of stellar ejecta, and constraining the chemical evolution of the …

The observed spiral structure of the Milky Way

LG Hou, JL Han - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. The spiral structure of the Milky Way is not yet well determined. The keys to
understanding this structure are to increase the number of reliable spiral tracers and to …

The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue – I. The physical properties of the clumps in the inner Galaxy (−710 < ℓ < 670)

D Elia, S Molinari, E Schisano… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Hi-GAL (Herschel InfraRed Galactic Plane Survey) is a large-scale survey of the
Galactic plane, performed with Herschel in five infrared continuum bands between 70 and …

A uniform catalog of molecular clouds in the Milky Way

TS Rice, AA Goodman, EA Bergin… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The all-Galaxy CO survey of Dame et al. is by far the most uniform, large-scale Galactic CO
survey. Using a dendrogram-based decomposition of this survey, we present a catalog of …

ATLASGAL–towards a complete sample of massive star forming clumps

JS Urquhart, TJT Moore, T Csengeri… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
By matching infrared-selected, massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and compact H ii
regions in the Red MSX Source survey to massive clumps found in the submillimetre …