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Context. HI filaments are closely related to dusty magnetized structures that are observable in the far infrared (FIR). Recently it was proposed that the coherence of oriented HI structures in velocity traces the line of sight magnetic…

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We present an efficient algorithm designed for and capable of detecting elongated, thin features such as lines and curves in astronomical images, and its application to the automatic detection of gravitational arcs. The algorithm is…

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We present a weak-lensing (WL) analysis of filamentary structures in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 using wide-field Magellan/MegaCam imaging data. We employ two complementary techniques: standard matched-filter scans to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Sangjun Cha , Kyle Finner , M. James Jee , Andrea Grazian

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

In this study, we perform 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of filamentary molecular clouds. We then generate synthetic observations based on the simulation results. Using these, we investigate how the new polarization data analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-19 Haruka Fukihara , Daisuke Takaishi , Yoshiaki Misugi , Megumi Sasaki , Yusuke Tsukamoto

We provide a first look at the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey toward the IC5146 molecular cloud and present a preliminary analysis of the filamentary structure in this region. The column density map, derived from our 70-500…

Studies on the dynamics of solar filaments have significant implications for understanding their formation, evolution, and eruption, which are of great importance for space weather warning and forecasting. The H$\alpha$ Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Z. Zheng , Q. Hao , Y. Qiu , J. Hong , C. Li , M. D. Ding

We identify 225 filaments from an H$_2$ column density map constructed using simultaneous $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O (J=1-0) observations carried out as a part of the MWISP project. We select 46 long filaments with lengths above…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Yuqing Zheng , Hongchi Wang , Yuehui Ma , Chong Li

We demonstrate a smart laser-diffraction analysis technique for particle mixture identification. We retrieve information about the size, geometry, and ratio concentration of two-component heterogeneous particle mixtures with an efficiency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Arturo Villegas , Mario A. Quiroz-Juarez , Alfred U'Ren , Juan P. Torres , Roberto de J. Leon-Montiel

We characterize the kinematic and magnetic properties of HI filaments located in a high Galactic latitude region ($165^\circ < \alpha < 195^\circ$ and $12^\circ < \delta < 24^\circ$). We extract three-dimensional filamentary structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-20 Doyeon Avery Kim , Susan E Clark , Mary E Putman , Larry Li

The mechanical properties of soft materials can be probed on small length scales by various microrheology methods. A common approach tracks fluctuations of micrometer-sized beads embedded in the medium to be characterized. This approach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-13 Kengo Nishi , Fred C. MacKintosh , Christoph F. Schmidt

The morphology of molecular clouds is crucial for understanding their origin and evolution. In this work, we investigate the morphology of the filamentary molecular clouds (filaments for short) using a portion of the $^{12}\text{CO}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-26 Wen Ge , Fujun Du , Lixia Yuan

We introduce a new self-consistent structure finding algorithm that parses large scale cosmological structure into clusters, filaments and voids. This structure finding algorithm probes the cosmological structure at multiple scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Ali Snedden , Lara Arielle Phillips , Grant J. Mathews , Jared Coughlin , In-Saeng Suh , Aparna Bhattacharya

We developed a method to automatically detect and trace solar filaments in H\alpha\ full-disk images. The program is able not only to recognize filaments and determine their properties, such as the position, the area, the spine, and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Hao , Cheng Fang , P. F. Chen

We present a detailed study of the surface brightness profiles of dense filaments in IC 5146 using recent Herschel observations done with SPIRE. We describe the profile through an equilibrium solution of a self-gravitating isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Joerg Fischera , Peter G. Martin

We present first results from the Herschel Gould Belt survey for the B211/L1495 region in the Taurus molecular cloud. Thanks to their high sensitivity and dynamic range, the Herschel images reveal the structure of the dense, star-forming…

Filaments in Herschel molecular cloud images are found to exhibit a "characteristic width". This finding is in tension with spatial power spectra of the data, which show no indication of this characteristic scale. We demonstrate that this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 G. V. Panopoulou , I. Psaradaki , R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , J. J. Andrews

The interstellar medium is characterised by an intricate filamentary network which exhibits complex structures. These show a variety of different shapes (e.g. junctions, rings, etc.) deviating strongly from the usually assumed cylindrical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Elena Hoemann , Stefan Heigl , Andreas Burkert

We developed the tool GEM-FIND that allows to constrain the morphology and brightness distribution of objects. The software fits geometrical models to spectrally dispersed interferometric visibility measurements in the N-band using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Klotz , S. Sacuto , C. Paladini , J. Hron , G. Wachter

We attempt to propose a method for automatically detecting the solar filament chirality and barb bearing. We first introduce the unweighted undirected graph concept and adopt the Dijkstra shortest-path algorithm to recognize the filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Q. Hao , Y. Guo , C. Fang , P. F. Chen , W. Cao