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As well known, magnetic fields in space are distributed very inhomogeneously. Some-times field distributions have forms of filaments with high magnetic field values. As many ob-servations show, such a filamentation takes place in convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-03 Evgeny A. Kuznetsov , Evgeny A. Mikhailov

Observational studies have reported that cosmic filaments on the megaparsec scale exhibit rotational motion. Subsequent simulation studies have shown qualitative agreement with these findings, but quantitative discrepancies remain due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Peng Wang , Xiao-Xiao Tang , Hao-Da Wang , Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Wei Wang , Youcai Zhang , Ming-Jie Sheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Haojie Xu

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

We present hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating dense gas in a galactic disk, exploring scales ranging from 1 kpc down to $\sim 0.1$~pc. Our primary goal is to understand how dense filaments form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Sven Van Loo

A collision-induced magnetic reconnection (CMR) mechanism was recently proposed to explain the formation of a filament in the Orion A molecular cloud. In this mechanism, a collision between two clouds with antiparallel magnetic fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Shuo Kong , David Whitworth , Rowan J. Smith , Erika T. Hamden

I review recent results derived from numerical simulations of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM), in particular concerning the nature and formation of turbulent clouds, methods for comparing the structure in simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

The universe in large scales is structured as a network known as cosmic web. Filaments are one of the structural components of this web, which can be introduced as a novel probe to study the formation and evolution of structures and as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Sina Taamoli , Shant Baghram

We decomposed the G333 complex and the G331 giant molecular cloud into multi-scale hub-filament systems (HFs) using the high-resolution $^{13}$CO (3$-$2) data from LAsMA observations. We employed the filfinder algorithm to identify and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 J. W. Zhou , J. S. Urquhart , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , T. Liu , M. Juvela

In the multi-scale view of the star formation process the material flows from large molecular clouds down to clumps and cores. In this paradigm it is still unclear if it is gravity or turbulence that drives the observed supersonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Traficante , G. A. Fuller , A. Duarte-Cabral , D. Elia , M. H. Heyer , S. Molinari , N. Peretto , E. Schisano

One of the key problems in star formation research is to determine the role of magnetic fields. Starting from the atomic inter-cloud medium (ICM) which has density nH ~ 1 per cubic cm, gas must accumulate from a volume several hundred pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua-bai Li , C. Darren Dowell , Alyssa Goodman , Roger Hildebrand , Giles Novak

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-09 Daisei Abe , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Doris Arzoumanian

The interstellar medium contains filamentary structure over a wide range of scales. Understanding the role of this structure, both as a conduit of gas across the scales and a diagnostic tool of local physics, is a major focus of star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-24 A. Hacar , S Clark , F. Heitsch , J. Kainulainen , G. Panopoulou , D. Seifried , R. Smith

Understanding the initial properties of star-forming material and how they affect the star formation process is key. From an observational point of view, the feedback from young high-mass stars on future star formation properties is still…

The recent data collected by {\it Herschel} have confirmed that interstellar structures with filamentary shape are ubiquitously present in the Milky Way. Filaments are thought to be formed by several physical mechanisms acting from the…

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

For decades, the boundary of cosmic filaments have been a subject of debate. In this work, we determine the physically-motivated radii of filaments by constructing stacked galaxy number density profiles around the filament spines. We find…

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…

We present the results of smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations investigating the evolution and fragmentation of filaments that are accreting from a turbulent medium. We show that the presence of turbulence, and the resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 S. D. Clarke , A. P. Whitworth , A. Duarte-Cabral , D. A. Hubber

Molecular clouds (MC) are structures of dense gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), that extend from ten to a few hundred parsecs and form the main gas reservoir available for star formation. Hydrodynamical simulations of varying complexity…

Filaments are ubiquitous throughout the Galaxy. Massive star formation is often observed in hub-filament systems, where multiple filaments appear to be interconnected and merging. Filament-filament collisions are therefore a likely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Kohji Tomisaka , Raiga Kashiwagi , Kazunari Iwasaki