The life and times of giant molecular clouds

M Chevance, MR Krumholz, AF McLeod… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the sites of star formation and stellar feedback in
galaxies. Their properties set the initial conditions for star formation and their lifecycles …

ATLASGAL–evolutionary trends in high-mass star formation

JS Urquhart, MRA Wells, T Pillai… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT ATLASGAL is an 870-µm dust survey of 420 deg2 the inner Galactic plane and
has been used to identify∼ 10 000 dense molecular clumps. Dedicated follow-up …

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 Atacama Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope: key science drivers

J Ramasawmy, PD Klaassen, C Cicone… - … , and Far-Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) is a concept for a 50m class
single-dish telescope that will provide high sensitivity, fast mapping of the (sub-) millimeter …

A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey-V. 6.7 GHz methanol maser catalogue

H Nguyen, MR Rugel, C Murugeshan… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Class II methanol (CH 3 OH) masers are amongst the clearest signposts of recent high-mass
star formation (HMSF). A complete catalogue outlines the distribution of star formation in the …

Discovery of a molecular cloud possibly associated with the youngest Galactic SNR G1. 9+ 0.3

R Enokiya, H Sano, MD Filipović… - Publications of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The youngest known Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G1. 9+ 0.3 has high-velocity
supernova shock beyond 10000 km s− 1, and it is considered to be one of the major …

A high pitch angle structure in the Sagittarius Arm

MA Kuhn, RA Benjamin, C Zucker… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. In spiral galaxies, star formation tends to trace features of the spiral pattern,
including arms, spurs, feathers, and branches. However, in our own Milky Way, it has been …

The SEDIGISM survey: A search for molecular outflows

AY Yang, JS Urquhart, F Wyrowski… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The formation processes of massive stars are still unclear, but a picture is emerging
involving accretion disks and molecular outflows in what appears to be a scaled-up version …

Distance of Hi-GAL sources

P Mège, D Russeil, A Zavagno, D Elia… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. Distances are key to determining the physical properties of sources. In the Galaxy,
large (> 10 000) homogeneous samples of sources for which distance are available …

ATOMS: ALMA three-millimeter observations of massive star-forming regions–XII: Fragmentation and multiscale gas kinematics in protoclusters G12. 42+ 0.50 and …

A Saha, A Tej, HL Liu, T Liu, N Issac… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present new continuum and molecular line data from the ALMA Three-millimeter
Observations of Massive Star-forming regions (ATOMS) survey for the two protoclusters …