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Throughout the Milky Way, molecular clouds typically appear filamentary, and mounting evidence indicates that this morphology plays an important role in star formation. What is not known is to what extent the dense filaments most closely…

In recent years there has been a growing interest in studying giant molecular filaments (GMFs), which are extremely elongated (> 100pc in length) giant molecular clouds (GMCs). They are often seen as inter-arm features in external spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Duarte-Cabral , C. L. Dobbs

Data of $^{12}$CO/$^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O $J=1\to0$ emission toward the Galactic plane region of $l=35^\circ$ to $45^\circ$ and $b= -5^\circ$ to $+5^\circ$ are available with the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Liang-Hao Lin , Hong-Chi Wang , Yang Su , Chong Li , Ji Yang

The Columbia - U. de Chile CO Survey of the Southern Milky Way is used for separating the CO(1-0) emission of the fourth Galactic quadrant within the solar circle into its dominant components, giant molecular clouds (GMCs). After the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Garcia , L. Bronfman , L. Nyman , T. M. Dame

The interstellar medium has a highly filamentary and hierarchical structure, which may play a significant role in star formation. A systematical study on the large-scale filaments towards their physical parameters, distribution, structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-06 Yifei Ge , Ke Wang

Recent surveys of the Galactic plane in the dust continuum and CO emission lines reveal that large ($\gtrsim 50$~pc) and massive ($\gtrsim 10^5$~$M_\odot$) filaments, know as giant molecular filaments (GMFs), may be linked to galactic…

Observations have discovered numerous giant molecular filaments (GMFs) in the Milky Way. However, their role in the Galactic star formation and Galaxy-scale evolution of dense gas is still unknown. We investigate systematically the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen , Michael Mattern , Min Fang , Thomas Henning

The ubiquity of filamentary structure at various scales through out the Galaxy has triggered a renewed interest in their formation, evolution, and role in star formation. The largest filaments can reach up to Galactic scale as part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-09 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Adam Ginsburg , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Sergio Molinari , Eugenio Schisano

Large-scale gaseous filaments with length up to the order of 100 pc are on the upper end of the filamentary hierarchy of the Galactic interstellar medium. Their association with respect to the Galactic structure and their role in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Andreas Burkert , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

The characterization of our Galaxy's longest filamentary gas features has been the subject of several studies in recent years, producing not only a sizeable sample of large-scale filaments, but also confusion as to whether all these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Catherine Zucker , Cara Battersby , Alyssa Goodman

Context. Filamentary structures in the interstellar medium are closely related to star formation. Dense gas mass fraction (DGMF) or clump formation efficiency in large-scale filaments possibly determine their hosting star formation…

Filaments are a ubiquitous morphological feature of the molecular interstellar medium and are identified as sites of star formation. In recent years, more than 100 large-scale filaments (with a length $>10$\,pc) have been observed in the…

Giant Molecular Filaments are opportune locations in our Galaxy to study the star-forming interstellar matter and its accumulation on spatial scales comparable to those now becoming available for external galaxies. We mapped the emission of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-12 O. Feher , S. E. Ragan , F. D. Priestley , P. C. Clark

We report molecular line and continuum observations toward one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs), GMC-16, in M33 using ALMA with an angular resolution of 0$''$44 $\times$ 0$''$27 ($\sim$2 pc $\times$ 1 pc). We have found…

Filamentary flows toward the centre of molecular clouds have been recognized as a crucial process in the formation and evolution of stellar clusters. In this paper, we present a comprehensive observational study that investigates the gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 Vineet Rawat , M. R. Samal , D. L. Walker , D. K. Ojha , A. Tej , A. Zavagno , C. P. Zhang , Davide Elia , S. Dutta , J. Jose , C. Eswaraiah , E. Sharma

Filamentary structure is important for the ISM and star formation. Galactic distribution of filaments may regulate the star formation rate in the Milky Way. However, interstellar filaments are intrinsically complex, making it difficult to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Ke Wang , Yifei Ge , Tapas Baug

We carried out observations toward the giant molecular cloud W 37 with the $J = 1 - 0$ transitions of $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O using the 13.7 m single-dish telescope at the Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. Based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Xiaoliang Zhan , Zhibo Jiang , Zhiwei Chen , Miaomiao Zhang , Chao Song

We derive the physical properties of 580 molecular clouds based on their 12CO and 13CO line emission detected in the University of Massachusetts-Stony Brook (UMSB) and Galactic Ring surveys. We provide a range of values of the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Julia Roman-Duval , James M. Jackson , Mark Heyer , Jill Rathborne , Robert Simon

We present Berkeley Illinois Maryland Association (BIMA) millimeter interferometer observations of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) along a spiral arm in M31. The observations consist of a survey using the compact configuration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Rosolowsky

We present observations of 1.5 square degree maps of the 12CO, 13CO, and C18O (J=1-0) emission toward the complex region of the supernova remnant (SNR) W41 and SNR G22.7-0.2. A massive (~5E5Msun), large (~84x15 pc), and dense (~10E3 cm^-3)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Yang Su , Shaobo Zhang , Xiangjun Shao , Ji Yang
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