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We present clumps of dust emission from Herschel observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and their physical and statistical properties. We catalog cloud features seen in the dust emission from Herschel observations of the LMC, the…

Absorption line studies are essential to understanding the origin, nature, and impact of starburst-driven galactic outflows. Such studies have revealed a multiphase medium with a number of poorly-understood features leading to a need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 J'Neil Cottle , Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Bruggen

We present a statistical study of the relative orientation in the plane of the sky between interstellar magnetic fields and filaments hosting cold clumps. For the first time, we consider both the density of the environment and the density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-15 D. Alina , I. Ristorcelli , L. Montier , E. Abdikamalov , M. Juvela , K. Ferrière , J. -Ph. Bernard , E. R. Micelotta

We are addressing the sites of isolated low mass star formation in the solar neighbourhood, i.e. small cloud cores within one kiloparsec. We aim at determining the physical parameters of the cores, i.e., temperature, volume density, column…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-21 Bengt Larsson , René Liseau

We present a geometry-independent method for determining the shapes of radial volume density profiles of astronomical objects whose geometries are unknown, based on a single column density map. Such profiles are often critical to understand…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Marko Krčo , Paul F. Goldsmith

Image cubes of differential column density as a function of dust temperature are constructed for Galactic Centre molecular cloud G0.253+0.016 ("The Brick") using the recently described PPMAP procedure. The input data consist of continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 K. A. Marsh , S. E. Ragan , A. P. Whitworth , P. C. Clark

Radial density profiles for the sample of dense cores associated with high-mass star-forming regions from southern hemisphere have been derived using the data of observations in continuum at 250 GHz. Radial density profiles for the inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Lev E. Pirogov

The Galactic center (GC) is a dense and chaotic region filled with unusual sources, such as intense star forming regions, dense star clusters, nonthermal radio filaments, and a massive black hole. The proximity of the GC region makes it an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Casey James Law

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) \lambda = 0.88mm observations of an infrared dark cloud (IRDC) G28.34+0.06. Located in the quiescent southern part of the G28.34 cloud, the region of interest is a massive ($>10^3$\,\msun) molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Ke Wang , Qizhou Zhang , Yuefang Wu , Huawei Zhang

We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and the mass-luminosity relations of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alberto D. Bolatto , Adam K. Leroy , Erik Rosolowsky , Fabian Walter , Leo Blitz

We have conducted a survey of the CCS $J_N = 3_2-2_1$ line toward 11 dark clouds and star-forming regions at 30 arcsec spatial resolution and 0.054 km/s velocity resolution. CCS was only detected in quiescent clouds, not in active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shih-Ping Lai , Richard M. Crutcher

We mapped five massive star forming regions with the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Temperature and column density maps are obtained from the SCUBA-2 450 and 850 $\mu$m images. Most of the dense clumps we find…

Analysis of all-sky Planck submillimetre observations and the IRAS 100um data has led to the detection of a population of Galactic cold clumps. The clumps can be used to study star formation and dust properties in a wide range of Galactic…

We have mapped 11 compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) in the 21-cm line emission of neutral, atomic hydrogen, using the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope. The aim of our observations was to study the overall distribution of the warm neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Westmeier , C. Bruens , J. Kerp

Molecular clouds have complex density structures produced by processes including turbulence and gravity. We propose a triangulation-based method to dissect the density structure of a molecular cloud and study the interactions between dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-04 Guang-Xing Li , Yue Cao , Keping Qiu

The submillimeter opacity of dust in the diffuse Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) has been quantified using a pixel-by-pixel correlation of images of continuum emission with a proxy for column density. We used three BLAST bands at 250,…

The physical and chemical properties of prestellar cores, especially massive ones, are still far from being well understood due to the lack of a large sample. The low dust temperature ($<$14 K) of Planck cold clumps makes them promising…

We present an analysis of ~3.5 square degrees of submillimetre continuum and extinction data of the Perseus molecular cloud. We identify 58 clumps in the submillimetre map and we identify 39 structures (`cores') and 11 associations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Helen Kirk , Doug Johnstone , James Di Francesco

We report the spatial distribution and physical characteristics of molecular clouds in the G24 region, which is located near the intersection of the Milky Way's Galactic bar with the Norma arm and the 3 kpc arm. Utilizing molecular line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-21 Tian Yang , Xi Chen , Xiao-Yun Xu , Yang Yang , En Chen , Jun Li , Bing-Gang Ju , Deng-Rong Lu

High-mass stars have an enormous influence on the evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies, so it is important that we understand how they form. We examine the central clumps within a sample of seven infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs)…