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The aim of this study is to examine dust dynamics on a large scale and investigate the coupling of dust with gas fluid in the star formation process. We propose a method for calculating the dust trajectory in a gravitationally collapsing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Shunta Koga , Yoshihiro Kawasaki , Masahiro N. Machida

Aims: We offer a new, simpler picture of the local interstellar medium, made of a single continuous cloud enveloping the Sun. This new outlook enables the description of a diffuse cloud from within and brings to light some unexpected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 Cecile Gry , Edward B. Jenkins

Using the Planck far-infrared and Arecibo GALFA 21-cm line surveys, we identified a set of isolated interstellar clouds (approximately degree-sized on the sky and comprising 100 solar masses) and assessed the ratio of gas mass to dust mass.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles , Jean-Philippe Bernard

(Abridged) We present a series of decaying turbulence simulations that represent a cluster-forming clump within a molecular cloud, investigating the role of magnetic fields on the formation of potential star-forming cores. We present an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 David A. Tilley , Ralph E. Pudritz

Despite over 30 years of study, the mass-area relationship within and among clouds is still poorly understood both observationally and theoretically. Modern extinction datasets should have sufficient resolution and dynamic range to…

The clouds have a great impact on Venus's energy budget and climate evolution, but its three-dimensional structure is still not well understood. Here we incorporate a simple Venus cloud physics scheme into a flexible GCM to investigate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Wencheng D. Shao , João M. Mendonça , Longkang Dai

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density of molecular clouds provides essential information about the structure of molecular cloud gas and condensed structures out of which stars may form. In general, the PDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jörg Fischera

We present the first large-scale 3D map of interstellar dust temperature. We build upon existing 3D reddening maps derived from starlight absorption (Bayestar19), covering 3/4 of the sky. Starting with the column density for each of 500…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Ioana A. Zelko , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Albert Lee , Gregory Green

Numerous prior studies predominantly emphasize constructing relation vectors for individual neighborhood points and generating dynamic kernels for each vector and embedding these into high-dimensional spaces to capture implicit local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Shuofeng Sun , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

We want to estimate the distance to molecular clouds in the solar vicinity in a statistically precise way. Clouds are recognized as extinction discontinuities. The extinction is estimated from the $(H-K) \ vs. \ (J-H)$ diagram and distances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-21 Jens Knude

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

Interstellar medium widely exists in the universe at multi-scales. In this study, we introduce the {\it Multi-scale Decomposition Reconstruction} method, an equation-based model designed to derive width maps of interstellar medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-23 Mengke Zhao , Guang-Xing Li , Duo Xu , Keping Qiu

We present a novel technique to decompose line-of-sight (LOS) stellar polarization as a function of distance, aimed at reconstructing three dimensional (3D) plane-of-sky (POS) magnetic structures in the interstellar medium (ISM). The method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Namita Uppal , Konstantinos Tassis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Vincent Pelgrims , Myrto Falalaki

Gaia data and stellar surveys open the way to the construction of detailed 3D maps of the Galactic interstellar (IS) dust based on the synthesis of star distances and extinctions. Reliable extinction measurements require very accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 R. Lallement , L. Capitanio , L. Ruiz-Dern , C. Danielski , C. Babusiaux , J. L. Vergely , M. Elyajouri , F. Arenou , N. Leclerc

In this work, we present a novel framework for constructing three-dimensional (3D) objects from two-dimensional (2D) maps, tailored for the analysis of complex structures in the interstellar medium (ISM). The framework extends the Abel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 Xunchuan Liu , Xiaofeng Mai

Using 3D hydrodynamic calculations we simulate formation of molecular clouds in the Galaxy. The simulations take into account molecular hydrogen chemical kinetics, cooling and heating processes. Comprehensive gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. A. Khoperskov , E. O. Vasiliev , A. M. Sobolev , A. V. Khoperskov

In this study, we perform 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of filamentary molecular clouds. We then generate synthetic observations based on the simulation results. Using these, we investigate how the new polarization data analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-19 Haruka Fukihara , Daisuke Takaishi , Yoshiaki Misugi , Megumi Sasaki , Yusuke Tsukamoto

Many recent models consider the structure of individual interstellar medium (ISM) clouds as a way to explain observations of large parts of galaxies. To compare such models to observations, one must understand how to translate between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Adam K. Leroy , Cheoljong Lee , Andreas Schruba , Alberto Bolatto , Annie Hughes , Jerome Pety , Karin Sandstrom , Eva Schinnerer , Fabian Walter

We present a first attempt to construct an analytic model for a clumped gas and dust disk and apply it to the Galactic Centre. The clumps are described as isothermal spheres partially ionized by the external UV radiation field. The disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Vollmer , W. J. Duschl

The dust cloud around $\lambda$ Orionis is observed to be circularly symmetric with a large angular extent ($\approx$ 8 degrees). However, whether the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the cloud is shell- or ring-like has not yet been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-25 Dukhang Lee , Kwang-Il Seon , Young-Soo Jo
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