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 …

Cold dark clouds are nearby members of the densest and coldest phase in the Galactic
interstellar medium, and represent the most accessible sites where stars like our Sun are …

We present a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three-quarters
of the sky out to a distance of several kiloparsecs, based on Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) and …

In this paper, we investigate the level of star formation activity within nearby molecular
clouds. We employ a uniform set of infrared extinction maps to provide accurate …

We demonstrate the utility of dendrograms at representing the essential features of the
hierarchical structure of the isosurfaces for molecular line data cubes. The dendrogram of a …

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" …

Context. Probability distribution of densities is a fundamental measure of molecular cloud
structure, containing information on how the material arranges itself in molecular clouds …

Context. Stars form in the cold dense cores of interstellar molecular clouds and the detailed
knowledge of the spectrum of masses of such cores is clearly a key for the understanding of …

Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dense molecular clouds seen as extinction features against
the bright mid-infrared Galactic background. Millimeter continuum maps toward 38 IRDCs …

We present a new algorithm for detecting filamentary structure FilFinder. The algorithm uses
the techniques of mathematical morphology for filament identification, presenting a …