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The collapse and fragmentation of initially prolate and oblate, magnetic molecular clouds is calculated in three dimensions with a gravitational, radiative hydrodynamics code. The code includes magnetic field effects in an approximate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-15 Alan P. Boss

Observations of the properties of dense molecular clouds are critical in understanding the process of star-formation. One of the most important, but least understood, is the role of the magnetic fields. We discuss the possibility of using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-16 A. W. Strong , C. Dickinson , E. J. Murphy

Observations of the properties of dense molecular clouds are critical in understanding the process of star-formation. One of the most important, but least understood, is the role of the magnetic fields. We discuss the possibility of using…

Recent observations of global velocity gradients across and along molecular filaments have been interpreted as signs of gas accreting onto and along these filaments, potentially feeding star-forming cores and proto-clusters. The behavior of…

Understanding turbulence within the Intracluster Medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters is pivotal for comprehending their evolution and dynamics. Employing 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of galaxy cluster mergers, we examine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian , G. Brunetti , John A. ZuHone

We present a novel statistical analysis aimed at deriving the intrinsic shapes and magnetic field orientations of molecular clouds using dust emission and polarization observations by the Hertz polarimeter. Our observables are the aspect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Tassis , C. D. Dowell , R. H. Hildebrand , L. Kirby , J. E. Vaillancourt

Topological analysis of the magnetic field in simulated plasmas allows the study of various physical phenomena in a wide range of settings. One such application is magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon related to the dynamics of the magnetic…

We generalize the classic Bonnor-Ebert stability analysis of pressure-truncated, self-gravitating gas spheres, to include clouds with arbitrary equations of state. A virial-theorem analysis is also used to incorporate mean magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dean E. McLaughlin , Ralph E. Pudritz

The automatic analysis of chemical literature has immense potential to accelerate the discovery of new materials and drugs. Much of the critical information in patent documents and scientific articles is contained in figures, depicting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Lucas Morin , Martin Danelljan , Maria Isabel Agea , Ahmed Nassar , Valery Weber , Ingmar Meijer , Peter Staar , Fisher Yu

We present a generalization of the Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) identification problem based on cluster analysis. The method we designed, SCIMES (Spectral Clustering for Interstellar Molecular Emission Segmentation) considers the dendrogram…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Dario Colombo , Erik Rosolowsky , Adam Ginsburg , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Annie Hughes

Many phenomena taking place in the solar photosphere are controlled by plasma motions. Although the line-of-sight component of the velocity can be estimated using the Doppler effect, we do not have direct spectroscopic access to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Asensio Ramos , I. S. Requerey , N. Vitas

The second survey of the molecular clouds in 12CO (J = 1-0) was carried out in the Large Magellanic Cloud by NANTEN. The sensitivity of this survey is twice as high as that of the previous NANTEN survey, leading to a detection of molecular…

3D Galactic magnetic fields are critical for understanding the interstellar medium, Galactic foreground polarization, and the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Leveraging recent theoretical insights into anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Yue Hu

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are multi-phase gas structures whose velocities (|v_LSR|>100 km/s) are too high to be explained by Galactic disk rotation. While large HVCs are well characterized, compact and small HVCs (with HI angular sizes of…

We present two magnetometry-based methods suitable for assessing gradients in the critical temperature and hence the composition of multifilamentary superconductors: AC magnetometry and Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy. The novelty of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-22 T. Baumgartner , J. Hecher , J. Bernardi , S. Pfeiffer , C. Senatore , M. Eisterer

Dust polarization observational results are analyzed for the high-mass star formation region W51 from the largest parent cloud ($\sim$ 2~pc, JCMT) to the large-scale envelope ($\sim$ 0.5~pc, BIMA) down to the collapsing core e2 ($\sim$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

We take advantage of a set of molecular cloud simulations to demonstrate a possibility to uncover statistical properties of the gas density and velocity fields using reflected emission of a short (with duration much less than the cloud's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 I. Khabibullin , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , C. Federrath , D. Seifried , S. Walch

Insights on stellar surface large-scale magnetic field topologies are usually drawn by applying Zeeman-Doppler-Imaging (ZDI) to the observed spectropolarimetric time series. However, ZDI requires experience for reliable results to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 L. T. Lehmann , J. -F. Donati

We present first results from SIMPLIFI (Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: a Legacy Investigation of Filaments), a SOFIA/HAWC+ $214~\mu\rm{}m$ polarimetric survey of Galactic molecular cloud filaments. We trace magnetic field…

Magnetic fields are an energetically important component of star-formation galaxies, but it is often difficult to measure their properties from observations. One of the complexities stems from the fact that the magnetic fields, especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-09 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath