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We use numerical simulations of turbulent cluster-forming regions to study the nature of dense filamentary structures in star formation. Using four hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations chosen to match observations, we identify…

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We identify 225 filaments from an H$_2$ column density map constructed using simultaneous $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O (J=1-0) observations carried out as a part of the MWISP project. We select 46 long filaments with lengths above…

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Filaments are considered to be basic structures and molecular clouds consist of filaments. Filaments are often observed as extending in the direction perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field. The structure of filaments has been…

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The interstellar medium is threaded by a hierarchy of filaments from large scales (~ 100 pc) to small scales (~ 0.1pc). The masses and lengths of these nested structures may reveal important constraints for cloud formation and evolution,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-09 Jiancheng Feng , Rowan J. Smith , Alvaro Hacar , Susan E. Clark , Daniel Seifried

We provide a first look at the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey toward the IC5146 molecular cloud and present a preliminary analysis of the filamentary structure in this region. The column density map, derived from our 70-500…

The interstellar medium has a highly filamentary and hierarchical structure, which may play a significant role in star formation. A systematical study on the large-scale filaments towards their physical parameters, distribution, structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-06 Yifei Ge , Ke Wang

We present a systematic analysis of scale-dependent properties of filamentary structures in seven nearby molecular clouds $-$ Taurus, Ophiuchus, Perseus, Orion A, California, IC 5146, Vela C $-$ using the multiscale extraction method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Guo-Yin Zhang , Alexander Men'shchikov , Jin-Zeng Li

Context: In the last years, there have been many studies on the omnipresence and structures of filaments in star-forming regions, as well as their role in the process of star formation. Those filaments are normally identified as elongated…

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We present the Multiscale non-Gaussian Segmentation (MnGSeg) analysis technique. This wavelet based method combines the analysis of the probability distribution function (PDF) of map fluctuations as a function of spatial scales and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 J. -F. Robitaille , F. Motte , N. Schneider , D. Elia , S. Bontemps

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

The Delta-variance analysis, has proven to be an efficient and accurate method of characterising the power spectrum of interstellar turbulence. The implementation presently in use, however, has several shortcomings. We propose and test an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ossenkopf , M. Krips , J. Stutzki

We propose a new multiscale method to calculate the amplitude of the gradient of the linear polarisation vector using a wavelet-based formalism. We demonstrate this method using a field of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) and show…

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Filaments in Herschel molecular cloud images are found to exhibit a "characteristic width". This finding is in tension with spatial power spectra of the data, which show no indication of this characteristic scale. We demonstrate that this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 G. V. Panopoulou , I. Psaradaki , R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , J. J. Andrews

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in observations of real molecular clouds, and also in simulations of turbulent, self-gravitating gas. However, making comparisons between observations and simulations is complicated by the difficulty of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 F. D. Priestley , A. P. Whitworth

Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Men'shchikov

We present DisPerSE, a novel approach to the coherent multi-scale identification of all types of astrophysical structures, and in particular the filaments, in the large scale distribution of matter in the Universe. This method and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thierry Sousbie

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in astrophysics and are observed at various scales. On a cosmological scale, matter is usually distributed along filaments, and filaments are also typical features of the interstellar medium. Within a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-28 Jonathan Freundlich , Chanda J. Jog , Françoise Combes

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

The orientations of filamentary molecular clouds in the Gould Belt and their local ICM (inter-cloud media) magnetic fields are studied using near-infrared dust extinction maps and optical stellar polarimetry data. These filamentary clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Hua-bai Li , Min Fang , Thomas Henning , Jouni Kainulainen

We suggest a two-dimensional wavelet devised to deduce the large-scale structure of a physical field (e.g., the Galactic magnetic field) from its integrals along straight paths from irregularly spaced data points to a fixed interior point…

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