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 …

From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds: toward a new paradigm for star formation

P André, J Di Francesco… - … and Planets VI, 2014 - books.google.com
Recent studies of the nearest star-forming clouds of the Galaxy at submillimeter wavelengths
with the Herschel Space Observatory have provided us with unprecedented images of the …

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 …

Giant molecular cloud catalogues for PHANGS-ALMA: methods and initial results

E Rosolowsky, A Hughes, AK Leroy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present improved methods for segmenting CO emission from galaxies into individual
molecular clouds, providing an update to the cprops algorithms presented by Rosolowsky & …

The big problems in star formation: the star formation rate, stellar clustering, and the initial mass function

MR Krumholz - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Star formation lies at the center of a web of processes that drive cosmic evolution:
generation of radiant energy, synthesis of elements, formation of planets, and development …

The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). I. Pilot Survey: Clump Fragmentation

P Sanhueza, Y Contreras, B Wu… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). I. Pilot Survey:
Clump Fragmentation - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you …

Stars with photometrically young Gaia luminosities around the solar system (SPYGLASS). I. Mapping young stellar structures and their star formation histories

RMP Kerr, AC Rizzuto, AL Kraus… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Young stellar associations hold a star formation record that can persist for millions of years,
revealing the progression of star formation long after the dispersal of the natal cloud. To …

On the three-dimensional structure of local molecular clouds

C Zucker, A Goodman, J Alves, S Bialy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We leverage the 1 pc spatial resolution of the Leike et al. three-dimensional (3D) dust map
to characterize the 3D structure of nearby molecular clouds (d≲ 400 pc). We start by" …

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions–XV. Steady accretion from global collapse to core feeding in massive hub-filament …

FW Xu, K Wang, T Liu, PF Goldsmith… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We present ALMA Band-3/7 observations towards 'the Heart'of a massive hub-
filament system (HFS) SDC335, to investigate its fragmentation and accretion. At a …

The resolved properties of extragalactic giant molecular clouds

AD Bolatto, AK Leroy, E Rosolowsky… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved
size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and mass-luminosity relations of GMCs …