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Aims. The process of gravitational fragmentation in the L1482 molecular filament of the California molecular cloud is studied by combining several complementary observations and physical estimates. We investigate the kinematic and dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-07 Da-Lei Li , Jarken Esimbek , Jian-Jun Zhou , Yu-Qing Lou , Gang Wu , Xin-Di Tang , Yu-Xin He

We present the survey of $^{12}$CO/$^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O (J=1-0) toward the California Molecular Cloud (CMC) within the region of 161.75$^{\circ} \leqslant l \leqslant$ 167.75$^{\circ}$,-9.5$^{\circ} \leqslant b \leqslant $-7.5$^{\circ}$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Weihua Guo , Xuepeng Chen , Jiancheng Feng , Li Sun , Chen Wang , Yang Su , Yan Sun , Yiping Ao , Shaobo Zhang , Xin Zhou , Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang

Filaments are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their formation and evolution remains the topic of intense debate. In order to obtain a more comprehensive view of the 3D morphology and evolution of the Musca filament, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 Aidan Kaminsky , Lars Bonne , Doris Arzoumanian , Simon Coudé

The sample of 566 molecular clouds identified in the CO(2--1) IRAM survey covering the disk of M~33 is explored in detail.The clouds were found using CPROPS and were subsequently catalogued in terms of their star-forming properties as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Jonathan Braine , Erik Rosolowsky , Pierre Gratier , Edvige Corbelli , Karl Schuster

LDN 1157, is one of the several clouds situated in the cloud complex, LDN 1147/1158, represents a coma-shaped morphology with a well-collimated bipolar outflow emanating from a Class 0 protostar, LDN 1157-mm. The main goals of this work are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Ekta Sharma , G. Maheswar , A. Soam , Changwon Lee , Shinyoung Kim , Tuhin Ghosh , A. Tej , G. Kim , S. Neha , Piyali Saha

Understanding the initial properties of star-forming material and how they affect the star formation process is key. From an observational point of view, the feedback from young high-mass stars on future star formation properties is still…

The evolution of the molecular interstellar medium is controlled by processes such as turbulence, gravity, stellar feedback, and Galactic shear. AL a part of the ISM-6D https://gxli.github.io/ISM-6D/ project, using Gaia astrometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Ji-Xuan Zhou , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen

We study the kinematics of the dense gas of starless and protostellar cores traced by the N2D+(2-1), N2H+(1-0), DCO+(2-1), and H13CO+(1-0) transitions along the L1495 filament and the kinematic links between the cores and the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 A. Punanova , P. Caselli , J. E. Pineda , A. Pon , M. Tafalla , A. Hacar , L. Bizzocchi

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

Some theories of dense molecular cloud formation involve dynamical environments driven by converging atomic flows or collisions between preexisting molecular clouds. The determination of the dynamics and physical conditions of the gas in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Jimenez-Serra , P. Caselli , F. Fontani , J. C. Tan , J. D. Henshaw , J. Kainulainen , A. K. Hernandez

"TRAO FUNS" is a project to survey Gould Belt's clouds in molecular lines. This paper presents its first results on the central region of the California molecular cloud, L1478. We performed On-The-Fly mapping observations using the Taedeok…

We present Nobeyama 45m telescope C18O, 13CO, and 12CO(1-0) mapping observations towards an interstellar filament in the Taurus molecular cloud. We investigate the gas velocity structure along the filament and in its surrounding parent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Doris Arzoumanian , Yoshito Shimajiri , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tachihara

We present 850 $\mu$m polarization and $\rm C^{18}O (3-2)$ molecular line observations toward the X-shaped nebula in the California molecular cloud using the JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2 and HARP instruments. The 850 $\mu$m emission shows that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Eun Jung Chung , Chang Won Lee , Woojin Kwon , Mario Tafalla , Shinyoung Kim , Archana Soam , Jungyeon Cho

Kinematic information is crucial for understanding the evolution of complex systems, such as interstellar gas. Obtaining full 3D kinematic information is a crucial final step for modeling and interpretation. Molecular clouds are nurseries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Ji-Xuan Zhou , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen

The orientation of the magnetic field (B-field) in the filamentary dark cloud GF 9 was traced from the periphery of the cloud into the L1082C dense core that contains the low-mass, low-luminosity Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) GF 9-2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Dan P. Clemens , A. M. El Batal , C. Cerny , S. Kressy , G. Schroeder , T. Pillai

We characterize the kinematic and magnetic properties of HI filaments located in a high Galactic latitude region ($165^\circ < \alpha < 195^\circ$ and $12^\circ < \delta < 24^\circ$). We extract three-dimensional filamentary structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-20 Doyeon Avery Kim , Susan E Clark , Mary E Putman , Larry Li

Filaments are a key step on the path that leads from molecular clouds to star formation. However, their characteristics are heavily debated, and the exact processes that lead to their formation and fragmentation into dense cores still…

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…

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

The dynamical instability of a self-gravitating magnetized filamentary cloud was investigated while taking account of rotation around its axis. The filamentary cloud of our model is supported against self-gravity in part by both a magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Fumitaka Nakamura , Tomoyuki Hanawa
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