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Observations indicate that dense molecular filamentary clouds are sites of star formation. The filament width determines the most unstable scale for self-gravitational fragmentation and influences the stellar mass. Therefore, constraining…

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Understanding the physical properties of star-forming cores as mass reservoirs for protostars, and the impact of turbulence, is crucial in star formation studies. We implemented passive tracer particles in clump-scale numerical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-08 Shingo Nozaki , Hajime Fukushima , Kazuki Tokuda , Masahiro N. Machida

We explore the morphological features and star formation activities of [OII] emitters in the COSMOS UltraDeep field at $z \sim 1.5$ using JWST NIRCam data from the COSMOS-Web survey and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam. We also report the discovery…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-13 Ronaldo Laishram , Tadayuki Kodama , Takahiro Morishita , Andreas Faisst , Yusei Koyama , Naoaki Yamamoto

This paper gives a new way to diagnose the star-forming potential of a molecular cloud region from the probability density function of its column density (N-pdf). It gives expressions for the column density and mass profiles of a symmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-06 Philip C. Myers

Context: Filaments are common features in molecular clouds and they play a key role in star formation (SF). Studying their life cycle is essential to fully understand the SF process. Aims: We aim to characterise the impact of magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Paolo Suin , Doris Arzoumanian , Annie Zavagno , Patrick Hennebelle

Galaxy evolution depends on the environment in which galaxies are located. The various physical processes (ram-pressure stripping, tidal interactions, etc.) that can affect the gas content in galaxies have different efficiencies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-02 D. Zakharova , B. Vulcani , G. De Lucia , R. A. Finn , G. Rudnick , F. Combes , G. Castignani , F. Fontanot , P. Jablonka , L. Xie , M. Hirschmann

Dense clumps distributed along filaments are the immediate medium for star formation. Kinematic properties of the clumps, such as velocity gradient and angular momentum, combined with filament orientation, provide important clues to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-18 Xuefang Xu , Ke Wang , Qian Gou , Tapas Baug , Di Li , Chunguo Duan , Juncheng Lei

We observationally investigate star formation (SF) process occurring in AFGL 5157 (area ~13.5 pc X 13.5 pc) using a multi-wavelength approach. Embedded filaments are seen in the {\it Herschel} column density map, and one of them is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 L. K. Dewangan

Continuum observations of molecular clouds have revealed a surprising amount of substructure in the form of filaments of a few pc length and cores of ~0.1 pc diameter. Understanding the evolution of these substructures towards star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 James Di Francesco , Jared Keown , Rachel Friesen , Tyler Bourke , Paola Caselli

Large scale phenomena in spiral galaxies such as shear, supernovae, and magnetic fields all contribute to the formation and subsequent evolution of filamentary structure and star formation within them. In this paper, we analyze the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Rachel Pillsworth , Ralph E. Pudritz , Eric W. Koch , Theo J. O'Neill

Galaxy clusters and groups are thought to accrete material along the preferred direction of cosmic filaments. Yet these structures have proven difficult to detect due to their low contrast with few studies focusing on cluster infall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Florian Sarron , Christophe Adami , Florence Durret , Clotilde Laigle

Galaxies have different morphology, gas content and star formation rate (SFR) in dense environments like galaxy clusters. The impact of environmental density extends to several virial radii, and galaxies are pre-processed in filaments and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 G. Castignani , F. Combes , P. Jablonka , R. A. Finn , G. Rudnick , B. Vulcani , V. Desai , D. Zaritsky , P. Salomé

We present a detailed computational study of the assembly of protostellar disks and massive stars in molecular clouds with supersonic turbulence. We follow the evolution of large scale filamentary structures in a cluster-forming clump down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Dave W. Anderson

We test the impact of using variable star forming histories (SFHs) and the use of the IR luminosity (LIR) as a constrain on the physical parameters of high redshift dusty star-forming galaxies. We explore in particular the stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-13 P. Sklias , D. Schaerer , D. Elbaz , M. Pannella , C. Schreiber , A. Cava

We report on the possibility of studying the proprieties of cosmic diffuse baryons by studying self-gravitating clumps and filaments connected to galaxy clusters. While filaments are challenging to detect with X-ray observations, the higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 M. Angelinelli , S. Ettori , F. Vazza , T. W. Jones

With the help of a statistical parameter derived from optical spectra, we show that the current star formation rate of a galaxy, falling into a cluster along a supercluster filament, is likely to undergo a sudden enhancement before the…

We take a close look at the galaxies in the Coma Supercluster and assess the role of the environment (in the form of cluster, group and supercluster filament) in their evolution, in particular examining the role of groups. We characterise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Ruchika Seth , Somak Raychaudhury

With the aim of bringing substantial insight to the fundamental question of how galaxies acquire their material for star-formation, we present the first comprehensive characterisation of the galaxy connectivity (i.e. the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Enrico Garaldi , Guinevere Kauffmann

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…