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Observations of H$_{2}$CO lines and continuum at 1.3 mm towards Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M) cores were carried out with the SMA. We imaged H$_{2}$CO line absorption against the continuum cores and the surrounding line emission clumps. The…

The Red MSX Source (RMS) survey has identified a large sample of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and ultra compact (UC) HII regions from a sample of ~2000 MSX and 2MASS colour selected sources. Using a recent catalogue of molecular…

Massive stars are key players in the evolution of galaxies, yet their formation pathway remains unclear. In this work, we use data from several galaxy-wide surveys to build an unbiased dataset of ~700 massive young stellar objects (MYSOs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 B. B. Ochsendorf , M. Meixner , J. Chastenet , A. G. G. M. Tielens , J. Roman-Duval

We report a discovery of young stellar objects associated with a molecular cloud at the edge of the optical disk of our Galaxy. This cloud is denoted as Cloud 2 in the list by Digel et al. and it is one of the most distant molecular clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoto Kobayashi , Alan T. Tokunaga

The fraction of stars forming in compact, gravitationally bound clusters (the `cluster formation efficiency' or CFE) is an important quantity for deriving the spatial clustering of stellar feedback and for tracing star formation using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-25 Adam Ginsburg , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We have discovered 12 new molecular hydrogen emission-line objects (MHOs) in the vicinity of the candidate massive young stellar object Mol 121, in addition to five that were previously known. H2 2.12-micron/H2 2.25-micron flux ratios…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Wolf-Chase , K. Arvidsson , M. Smutko , R. Sherman

The paper aims to study relation between the distributions of the young stellar objects (YSOs) of different ages and the gas-dust constituents of the S254-S258 star-formation complex. This is necessary to study the time evolution of the YSO…

We present the results from a survey, designed to investigate the accretion process of massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) through near infrared narrow band imaging using the H$_2$ $\nu$=1-0 S(1) transition filter. A sample of 353 Massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-02 Felipe Navarete , Augusto Damineli , Cassio L. Barbosa , Robert D. Blum

We present the results of ALMA observations in $^{12}$CO($J=2-1$), $^{13}$CO($J=2-1$), and C$^{18}$O($J=2-1$) lines and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward a massive ($\sim 10^6 M_{\odot}$) giant molecular cloud associated with the giant H II…

We present radio and infrared observations indicating on-going star formation activity inside the $\sim2-5$ pc circumnuclear ring at the Galactic center. Collectively these measurements suggest a continued disk-based mode of on-going star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , M. Sewilo , D. A. Roberts , I. Smith , R. Arendt , W. Cotton , J. Lacy , S. Martin , M. W. Pound , M. Rickett , M. Royster

C$_2$H is a representative hydrocarbon that is abundant and ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM). To study its chemical properties, we present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of the C$_2$H $N=3-2$ and HC$_3$N $J=30-29$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Xue-Jian Jiang , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Qizhou Zhang , Junzhi Wang , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Juan Li , Yu Gao , Qiusheng Gu

Sgr B1 is a luminous H II region in the Galactic Center immediately next to the massive star-forming giant molecular cloud Sgr B2 and apparently connected to it from their similar radial velocities. In 2018 we showed from SOFIA FIFI-LS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Janet P. Simpson , Sean W. J. Colgan , Angela S. Cotera , Michael J. Kaufman , Susan R. Stolovy

It is often assumed that the strong gravitational field of a super-massive black hole disrupts an adjacent molecular cloud preventing classical star formation in the deep potential well of the black hole. Yet, young stars have been observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-10 B. Jalali , F. I. Pelupessy , A. Eckart , S. Portegies Zwart , N. Sabha , A. Borkar , J. Moultaka , K. Mužić , L. Moser

The central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy exhibits widespread emission from SiO and various complex organic molecules (COMs), yet the exact origin of such emission is uncertain. Here we report the discovery of a unique class of long…

We report 350 and 230 GHz observations of molecular gas and dust in the starburst nucleus of NGC 253 at 20-40 pc (1"-2") resolution. The data contain CO(3-2), HCN(4-3), CO(2-1), 13CO(2-1), C18O(2-1), and continuum at 0.87 mm and 1.3 mm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kazushi Sakamoto , Rui-Qing Mao , Satoki Matsushita , Alison B. Peck , Tsuyoshi Sawada , Martina C. Wiedner

Using infrared photometric data extracted from the 2MASS, IRAS and MSX databases, 142 suspected young stellar objects (YSOs) are selected from about 2 million stars in the Camelopardalis segment of the Milky Way limited by Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 V. Straizys , V. Laugalys

By matching infrared-selected, massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and compact HII regions in the RMS survey to massive clumps found in the submillimetre ATLASGAL survey, we have identified ~1000 embedded young massive stars between…

As nearby neighbors to the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) provide a unique opportunity to study star formation in the context of their galactic ecosystems. Thousands of young stellar objects (YSOs) have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Megan Reiter , Omnarayani Nayak , Margaret Meixner , Olivia Jones

We investigate at a high angular resolution the spatial and kinematic structure of the S255IR high mass star-forming region, which demonstrated recently the first disk-mediated accretion burst in the massive young stellar object. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Igor I. Zinchenko , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Yu-Nung Su , Kuo-Song Wang , Yuan Wang

We present the results of 0.6"-resolution observations of CO J=3-2 line emission in 10 massive star-forming galaxies at z=2.2-2.5 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We compare the spatial extent of molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Ken-ichi Tadaki , Tadayuki Kodama , Yusei Koyama , Tomoko L. Suzuki , Ikki Mitsuhashi , Ryota Ikeda