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In this work, we report a study on the relationship between flux and intensity for molecular clouds. Our analysis is established on high-quality CO images from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project. The new flux-intensity…

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The outer Galaxy presents an optimal setting for investigating molecular clouds and star formation in environments with low metallicity. A total of 72 Galactic edge clouds were surveyed using the CO\,(2--1) line with the IRAM\,30\,m…

Using a new parallel algorithm implemented within the VisIt framework, we analysed large cosmological grid simulations to study the properties of baryons in filaments. The procedure allows us to build large catalogues with up to $\sim 3…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Jean Favre , Marcus Brüggen

We show that hydrodynamic turbulent cloud simulations naturally produce large filaments made up of a network of smaller and coherent sub-filaments. Such simulations resemble observations of filaments and fibres in nearby molecular clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Rowan J. Smith , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen , Gary A. Fuller

We present molecular-line observations of 94 dark cloud cores identified in the Pipe nebula through near-IR extinction mapping. Using the Arizona Radio Observatory 12m telescope, we obtained spectra of these cores in the J=1-0 transition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 August A. Muench , Charles J. Lada , Jill M. Rathborne , João F. Alves , M. Lombardi

We discuss the fragmentation of a filamentary cloud on the basis of a 1-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of a self-gravitating gas cloud. The simulation shows that dense cores are produced with a semi-regular interval in space and time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Satoshi Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Hirahara

High resolution 21 cm observations of the Ursa Major cirrus revealed highly filamentary structures down to the 0.03 pc resolution. These filaments, still present in the line centroid map, show multi-Gaussian components and seem to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Gilles Joncas , Edith Falgarone

The hot gas permeating galaxy clusters-the intracluster medium (ICM)-is a key tracer of their assembly history and internal dynamics. Understanding the motion of this gas provides critical insight into processes such as mergers, turbulence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 E. Gatuzz , J. Sanders , A. Liu , A. Fabian , C. Pinto , D. Eckert , S. Walker

Recent observations suggest a scenario in which filamentary structures in the ISM represent the first step towards clumps/cores and eventually star formation. The densest filaments would then fragment into prestellar cores owing to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-31 Gang Wu , Keping Qiu , Jarken Esimbek , Xingwu Zheng , Christian Henkel , Dalei Li , Xiaohong Han

High resolution surveys reveal that the interstellar medium in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies consists of interlinked hierarchies of filamentary structure and superbubbles extending from galactic to subpc scales. The characterization of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Rachel Pillsworth , Erica Roscoe , Ralph E. Pudritz , Eric W. Koch

We have studied the filaments extracted from the column density maps of the nearby Lupus 1, 3, and 4 molecular clouds, derived from photometric maps observed with the Herschel satellite. Filaments in the Lupus clouds have quite low column…

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio between the solenoidal and compressive modes of turbulence plays…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki , Hiroki Nakatsugawa

The diffuse interstellar medium is dynamic, and its chemistry and evolution is determined by shock fronts as well as photodissociation. Shocks are implied by the supersonic motions and velocity dispersion often statistically called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles

We present a molecular line study of the Sh2-138 (IRAS 22308+5812) hub-filament system with an aim to investigate its structure and kinematics. Archival CO molecular line data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CO(J=1-0)) for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Kshitiz Mallick , Lokesh Dewangan , Devendra Ojha , Tapas Baug , Igor Zinchenko

We present a survey of molecular gas in the J = 1 -> 0 transition of 12CO towards the IRAS Vela shell. The shell, previously identified from IRAS maps, is a ring-like structure seen in the region of the Gum Nebula. We confirm the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayadev Rajagopal , G. Srinivasan

In order to search for further observational evidence of cloud-cloud collisions in one of the promising candidates, L1188, we carried out observations of multiple molecular lines toward the intersection region of the two nearly orthogonal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 Y. Gong , X. D. Tang , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten , R. Q. Mao , Y. Wang , M. -Y. Lee , W. S. Zhu , Y. Lin , S. B. Zhang , X. P. Chen , W. J. Yang

We present results of a high resolution study of the filamentary infrared dark cloud G192.76+00.10 in the S254-S258 OB complex in several molecular species tracing different physical conditions. These include three isotopologues of carbon…

We present continuum data from the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and the Mid-Infrared Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope, at submillimetre and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Nutter , J. M. Kirk , D. Stamatellos , D. Ward-Thompson

We have used the AMR hydrodynamic code, MG, to perform idealised 3D MHD simulations of the formation of clumpy and filamentary structure in a thermally unstable medium without turbulence. A stationary thermally unstable spherical diffuse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 C. J. Wareing , J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle , S. Van Loo

The IC5146 cloud is a nearby star-forming region in Cygnus, consisting of molecular gas filaments in a variety of evolutionary stages. We used optical and near-infrared polarization data toward the IC5146 cloud, reported in the first paper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Jia-Wei Wang , Shih-Ping Lai , Dan P. Clemens , Patrick M. Koch , C. Eswaraiah , Wen-Ping Chen , A. K. Pandey