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Compact radio cores are not only common in radio galaxies and quasars but also in many nearby galaxies with low-active, supermassive black holes. One famous example is the Galactic Center source Sgr A*. Recent studies of proper motions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke

We present high angular resolution 1.3 mm continuum, methyl cyanide molecular line, and 7 mm continuum observations made with the Submillimeter Array and the Very Large Array, toward the most highly obscured and southern part of the massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis A. Zapata , Paul T. P. Ho , Luis F. Rodriguez , Peter Schilke , Stan Kurtz

[Abridged] We have recently reported on the collapse and fragmentation properties of the northernmost part of this structure, located ~2.4pc north of Orion KL -- the Orion Molecular Cloud 3 (OMC 3, Takahashi et al. 2013). As part of our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 P. S. Teixeira , S. Takahashi , L. A. Zapata , P. T. P. Ho

We have performed a comprehensive study of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) combining the photometric data obtained by the two \textit{HST} Treasury programs that targeted this region. To consistently analyze the rich dataset obtained in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 Giovanni M. Strampelli , Massimo Robberto , Laurent Pueyo , Mario Gennaro , Carlo F. Manara , Elena Sabbi , Antonio Aparicio

Early-B stars may create an HII region that appears as radio-quiet. We report the identification of new early-B stars associated with the radio-quiet HII region G014.645--00.606 in the M17 complex. The ratio-quiet HII region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Jia Yin , Zhiwei Chen , Yongqiang Yao , Jian Chen , Bin Li , Zhibo Jiang

We address the problem of the origin of massive stars, namely the origin, path and timescale of the mass flows that create them. Based on extensive numerical simulations, we propose a scenario where massive stars are assembled by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Paolo Padoan , Liubin Pan , Mika Juvela , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

We observed the high-mass protostellar core G335.579-0.272 ALMA1 at ${\sim}200$ au (0.05") resolution with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 226 GHz (with a mass sensitivity of $5\sigma=0.2$ M$_\odot$ at 10 K). We…

The Orion Complex is a notable star forming region, that it is fragmented into several different populations that have substantial difference in their phase space. I propose a model that attempts to explain the how the Complex has evolved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Marina Kounkel

We discuss a specific population of galactic PeVatrons which may be the main source of the galactic cosmic-ray (CR) component well above PeV energies. Supernovae in compact clusters of massive stars are proposed as powerful sources of CRs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 A. M. Bykov , D. C. Ellison , P. E. Gladilin , S. M. Osipov

The spatial morphology and dynamical status of a young, still-forming stellar cluster provide valuable clues on the conditions during the star formation event and the processes that regulated it. We analyze the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicola Da Rio , Jonathan C. Tan , Karl Jaehnig

We present the kinematic analysis of $246$ stars within $4\mbox{$^\prime$}$ from the center of Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), the closest massive star cluster with active star formation across the full mass range, which provides valuable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingfeng Wei , Christopher A. Theissen , Quinn M. Konopacky , Jessica R. Lu , Chih-Chun Hsu , Dongwon Kim

We propose the model describing the observed multiple fast radio bursts due to the close encounters and collisions of neutron stars in the central clusters of the evolved galactic nuclei. The subsystem of neutron star cluster may originate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-07 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

We present sensitive 1.3 cm radio continuum observations of the region OMC1 South (OMC-1S) in Orion using the Very Large Array in its B configuration. We detect eleven radio sources clustered in a $30{''} \times 30{''}$ region, of which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis A. Zapata , Luis F. Rodriguez , Stanley E. Kurtz , C. R. O'Dell , Paul T. P. Ho

In order to study how outflows from protostars influence the physical and chemical conditions of the parent molecular cloud, we have observed Barnard 1 (B1) main core, which harbors four Class 0 and three Class I sources, in the CO (J=1-0),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-10 Masaaki Hiramatsu , Naomi Hirano , Shigehisa Takakuwa

We used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the European VLBI Network (EVN) to perform phase-referenced VLBI observations of the three most powerful maser transitions associated with the high-mass star-forming region G28.87+0.07: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. J. Li , L. Moscadelli , R. Cesaroni , R. S. Furuya , Y. Xu , T. Usuda , K. M. Menten , M. Pestalozzi , D. Elia , E. Schisano

We present the analysis of an XMM-Newton observation of the M17 nebula. The X-ray point source population consists of massive O-type stars and a population of probable low-mass pre-main sequence stars. CEN1a,b and OI352, the X-ray brightest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Francois Mernier , Gregor Rauw

Recent Hubble Space Telescope images have allowed the determination with unprecedented accuracy of motions and changes of shocks within the inner Orion Nebula. These originate from collimated outflows from very young stars, some within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 C. R. O'Dell , G. J. Ferland , W. J. Henney , M. Peimbert , Ma. T. Garcia-Diaz , Robert H. Rubin

In this work, we report the discovery of a candidate planetary-mass object with a photoevaporating protoplanetary disk, Proplyd 133-353, which is near the massive star $\theta^{1}$ Ori C at the center of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Min Fang , Jinyoung Serena Kim , Ilaria Pascucci , Dániel Apai , Carlo Felice Manara

Many nearby early-type (elliptical and S0) galaxies contain weak (milli-Jansky level) nuclear radio sources on scales a few hundred parsecs or less. The origin of the radio emission, however, has remained unclear, especially in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis C. Ho

We present new mid-infrared images of the central region of the Orion Nebula using the newly commissioned SOFIA airborne telescope and its 5 -- 40 micron camera FORCAST. The 37.1 micron images represent the highest resolution observations…