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In this study, we investigate the shapes of starless and protostellar cores using hydrodynamic, self-gravitating adaptive mesh refinement simulations of turbulent molecular clouds. We simulate observations of these cores in dust emission,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. S. R. Offner , M. R. Krumholz

We carried out deep searches for CO line emission in the outer disk of M33, at R>7 kpc, and examined the dynamical conditions that can explain variations in the mass distribution of the molecular cloud throughout the disk of M33. We used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Edvige Corbelli , Jonathan Braine , Carlo Giovanardi

This work reports a high spatial resolution observations toward Orion KL region with high critical density lines of CH$_{3}$CN (12$_{4}$-11$_{4}$) and CH$_{3}$OH (8$_{-1, 8}$-7$_{0, 7}$) as well as continuum at $\sim$1.3 mm band. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuefang Wu , Tie Liu , Sheng-Li Qin

Shells are fine stellar structures identified by their arc-like shapes present around a galaxy and currently thought to be vestiges of galaxy interactions and/or mergers. The study of their number, geometry, stellar populations and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Brisa Mancillas , Francoise Combes , Pierre-Alain Duc

We report a CO(3-2) detection of 23 molecular clouds in the extended ultraviolet (XUV) disk of the spiral galaxy M83 with ALMA. The observed 1kpc^2 region is at about 1.24 times the optical radius (R25) of the disk, where CO(2-1) was…

We use the $\mathit{Gaia}$ DR2 distances of about 700 mid-infrared selected young stellar objects in the benchmark giant molecular cloud Orion A to infer its 3D shape and orientation. We find that Orion A is not the fairly straight…

The nature of turbulence in molecular clouds is one of the key parameters that control star formation efficiency: compressive motions, as opposed to solenoidal motions, can trigger the collapse of cores, or mark the expansion of Hii…

A field of ~38'x38' around the supernova remnant (SNR) G349.7+0.2 has been surveyed in the CO J=1-0 transition with the 12 Meter Telescope of the NRAO, using the On-The-Fly technique. The resolution of the observations is 54". We have found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Estela M. Reynoso , Jeffrey G. Mangum

We report the results of a new large scale survey of the Orion-Monoceros complex of molecular clouds made in the J = 1->0 line of CO with the Harvard-Smithsonian 1.2m millimetre-wave telescope. The survey consists of 52,288 uniformly spaced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. A. Wilson , T. M. Dame , M. R. W. Masheder , P. Thaddeus

Recently, a new population of circular radio ($\sim$GHz) objects have been discovered at high Galactic latitudes, called the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). A fraction of the ORCs encircles massive galaxies in the sky with stellar mass $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Shotaro Yamasaki , Kartick C. Sarkar , Zhaozhou Li

We analyze the spatial distribution of dusty young stellar objects (YSOs) identified in the Spitzer Survey of the Orion Molecular clouds, augmenting these data with Chandra X-ray observations to correct for incompleteness in dense clustered…

The Orion Bar is the archetypal edge-on molecular cloud surface illuminated by strong ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars. Owing to the close distance to Orion (about 1,350 light-year), the effects of stellar feedback on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 Javier R. Goicoechea , J. Pety , S. Cuadrado , J. Cernicharo , E. Chapillon , A. Fuente , M. Gerin , C. Joblin , N. Marcelino , P. Pilleri

The environments surrounding nine Wolf-Rayet stars were studied in molecular emission. Expanding shells were detected surrounding these WR stars (see left panels of Figure 1). The average masses and radii of the molecular cores surrounding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tie Liu , Yuefang Wu , Huawei Zhang

The Orion Molecular Cloud 2/3 region (hereafter, OMC-2/3) and the reflection nebula NGC 1977 encompass a section of the Orion A molecular cloud undergoing vigorous star forming activity. One of the richest assemblages of protostars in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-25 Dawn E. Peterson , Tom Megeath

We present the result of an unbiased CO survey in Galactic range of 34.75$^{\circ}\leq$l$\leq$ 45.25$^{\circ}$ and -5.25$^{\circ}\leq$b$\leq$ 5.25$^{\circ}$, and velocity range beyond the Outer arm. A total of 168 molecular clouds (MCs) are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Yan Sun , Yang Su , Shao-Bo Zhang , Ye Xu , Xue-Peng Chen , Ji Yang , Zhi-Bo Jiang , Min Fang

In this chapter we review the properties of the Orion outlying clouds at b < -21 degrees. These clouds are located far off the Orion giant molecular cloud complex and are in most cases small cometary-shaped clouds, with their head pointing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-04 Juan M. Alcalá , Elvira Covino , Silvio Leccia

Expansion of wind-blown bubbles or HII regions lead to formation of shocks in the interstellar medium, which compress surrounding gas into dense layers. We made spatially and velocity-resolved observations of the RCW~120 PDR and nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 M. S. Kirsanova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. O. H. Olofsson , D. A. Semenov , A. F. Punanova

The outer Galaxy presents an optimal setting for investigating molecular clouds and star formation in environments with low metallicity. A total of 72 Galactic edge clouds were surveyed using the CO\,(2--1) line with the IRAM\,30\,m…

We present observations of the CO isotopologues ($^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O) toward the Galactic region with $169\arcdeg.75 \leqslant l \leqslant 174\arcdeg.75$ and $-0\arcdeg.75 \leqslant b \leqslant 0\arcdeg.5$, using the Purple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Fang Xiong , Xuepeng Chen , Qizhou Zhang , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Weihua Guo , Li Sun