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The characterization of our Galaxy's longest filamentary gas features has been the subject of several studies in recent years, producing not only a sizeable sample of large-scale filaments, but also confusion as to whether all these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Catherine Zucker , Cara Battersby , Alyssa Goodman

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

Throughout the Milky Way, molecular clouds typically appear filamentary, and mounting evidence indicates that this morphology plays an important role in star formation. What is not known is to what extent the dense filaments most closely…

Filaments are a ubiquitous morphological feature of the molecular interstellar medium and are identified as sites of star formation. In recent years, more than 100 large-scale filaments (with a length $>10$\,pc) have been observed in the…

Large-scale gaseous filaments with length up to the order of 100 pc are on the upper end of the filamentary hierarchy of the Galactic interstellar medium. Their association with respect to the Galactic structure and their role in Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Andreas Burkert , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Henrik Beuther , Thomas Henning

Filaments are ubiquitous in the universe. Recent observations have revealed that stars and star clusters form preferentially along dense filaments. Understanding the formation and properties of filaments is therefore a crucial step in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 Christoph Federrath

Filamentary structure is important for the ISM and star formation. Galactic distribution of filaments may regulate the star formation rate in the Milky Way. However, interstellar filaments are intrinsically complex, making it difficult to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Ke Wang , Yifei Ge , Tapas Baug

High resolution surveys reveal that the interstellar medium in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies consists of interlinked hierarchies of filamentary structure and superbubbles extending from galactic to subpc scales. The characterization of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Rachel Pillsworth , Erica Roscoe , Ralph E. Pudritz , Eric W. Koch

The ubiquity of filamentary structure at various scales through out the Galaxy has triggered a renewed interest in their formation, evolution, and role in star formation. The largest filaments can reach up to Galactic scale as part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-09 Ke Wang , Leonardo Testi , Adam Ginsburg , C. Malcolm Walmsley , Sergio Molinari , Eugenio Schisano

The recent data collected by {\it Herschel} have confirmed that interstellar structures with filamentary shape are ubiquitously present in the Milky Way. Filaments are thought to be formed by several physical mechanisms acting from the…

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

We use a suite of high resolution molecular cloud simulations carried out with the moving mesh code Arepo to explore the nature of star-forming filaments. The simulated filaments are identified and categorised from column density maps in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rowan J. Smith , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf. S. Klessen

Large-scale filaments ubiquitously exist in the Galactic interstellar medium, and their radial profiles offer insights into their formation mechanisms. We present a statistical analysis of molecular hydrogen column density ($\rm N(H_2)$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Keyun Su , Ke Wang , Fengwei Xu , N. K. Bhadari

We present a new method to identify large scale filaments and apply it to a cosmological simulation. Using positions of haloes above a given mass as node tracers, we look for filaments between them using the positions and masses of all the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Nelson E. Padilla

Context. Dense filaments/feathers are kpc-scale dusty features present in nearby main sequence galaxies. Distinct from the spiral arms, filaments constitute a major portion of dense gas concentration. They are expected to play an important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-17 Raghav Arora , Christoph Federrath , Mark Krumholz , Robi Banerjee

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- stellar cores with the filaments suggest a direct link with…

We present a statistical study of the filamentary structures of the cosmic web in the large hydro-dynamical simulations Illustris-TNG, Illustris, and Magneticum at redshift z=0. We focus on the radial distribution of the galaxy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Céline Gouin , Nicola Malavasi

Despite containing about a half of the total matter in the Universe, at most wavelengths the filamentary structure of the cosmic web is difficult to observe. In this work, we use large unigrid cosmological simulations to investigate how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Mehmet Alpaslan , Benne Willem Holwerda , Andrew Hopkins , Jochen Liske

The atomic phase of the interstellar medium plays a key role in the formation process of molecular clouds. Due to the line-of-sight confusion in the Galactic plane that is associated with its ubiquity, atomic hydrogen emission has been…

The characterization of the internal structure of the superclusters of galaxies (walls, filaments and knots where the clusters are located) is paramount for understanding the formation of the Large Scale Structure and for outlining the…

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