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We present maps of the cosmic large-scale structure around the twelve most distant galaxy clusters from the Massive Cluster Survey (MACS) as traced by the projected surface density of galaxies on the cluster red sequence. Taken with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Harald Ebeling , C. J. Ma , David Donovan

Dense molecular filaments are central to the star formation process, but the detailed manner in which they fragment into prestellar cores is not yet well understood. Here, we investigate the fragmentation properties and dynamical state of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Guo Yin Zhang , Ph. Andre , A. Menshchikov , Ke Wang

Based on 32162 molecular clouds from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project, we obtain new face-on molecular gas maps of the northern outer Galaxy. The total molecular gas surface density map reveals three segments of spirals,…

Using data from the Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array Continuum Transit Survey (GALFACTS), we report the discovery of two previously unidentified, very compressed, thin, and straight polarized filaments approximately centred at Galactic…

We describe the motivation, field locations and stellar selection for the ARGOS spectroscopic survey of 28,000 stars in the bulge and inner disk of the Milky Way galaxy across latitudes of b = -5 deg to -10 deg. The primary goal of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-10 K. Freeman , M. Ness , E. Wylie de Boer , E. Athanassoula , J. Bland Hawthorn , M. Asplund , G. Lewis , D. Yong , R. Lane , L. Kiss , R. Ibata

Far-infrared line and continuum fluxes are presented for a sample of 227 galaxies observed with the Long Wavelength Spectrometer on the Infrared Space Observatory. The galaxy sample includes normal star-forming systems, starbursts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James R. Brauher , Daniel A. Dale , George Helou

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are known to come from outside of our Galaxy, but their origin still remains unknown. The Telescope Array (TA) experiment recently identified a high concentration in the arrival directions of UHECRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-04 Jihyun Kim , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Suk Kim , Soo-Chang Rey

Filaments of galaxies are the dominant feature of modern large scale redshift surveys. They can account for up to perhaps half of the baryonic mass budget of the Universe and their distribution and abundance can help constrain cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin A. Pimbblet

Flaring and warping of the disk of the Milky Way have been inferred from observations of atomic hydrogen, but stars associated with flaring have not hitherto been reported. In the area beyond the Galactic centre the stars are largely hidden…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael W. Feast , John W. Menzies , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Patricia A. Whitelock

We describe a deep, systematic imaging study of satellites in the outer halo of the Milky Way. Our sample consists of 58 stellar overdensities --- i.e., substructures classified as either globular clusters, classical dwarf galaxies, or…

We produce a detailed map of the perturbed surface density of neutral hydrogen in the outer Milky Way disk demonstrating that the Galaxy is a non-axisymmetric multi-armed spiral. Spiral structure in the southern half of the Galaxy can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. S. Levine , Leo Blitz , Carl Heiles

Simulations of the formation of large-scale structure predict that dark matter, low density highly ionized gas, and galaxies form 10 40 Mpc scale filaments. These structure are easily recognized in the distribution of galaxies, but have not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 Bart P. Wakker , Audra K. Hernandez , David French , Tae-Sun Kim , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Blair D. Savage

Deep photometric surveys of the Milky Way have revealed diffuse structures encircling our Galaxy far beyond the "classical" limits of the stellar disk. This paper reviews results from our own and other observational programs, which together…

We investigate how large-scale cosmic filaments impact the quenching of galaxies within one virial radius of 324 simulated clusters from The Three Hundred project. We track cosmic filaments with the versatile, observation-friendly program…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 S. Kotecha , C. Welker , Z. Zhou , J. Wadsley , K. Kraljic , J. Sorce , E. Rasia , I. Roberts , M. Gray , G. Yepes , W. Cui

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

We used CO (2-1) and CO (1-0) data cubes to identify molecular clouds and study their kinematics and dynamics in three nearby galaxies and the inner Milky Way. When observed at similar spatial and velocity resolutions, molecular clouds in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-03 J. W. Zhou , Sami Dib

We present a multiwavelength investigation of a region of a nearby giant molecular cloud that is distinguished by a minimal level of star formation activity. With our new 12CO(J=2-1) and 13CO(J=2-1) observations of a remote region within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 Nia Imara , Charles Lada , John Lewis , John H. Bieging , Shuo Kong , Marco Lombardi , Joao Alves

Our search for the earliest stages of massive star formation turned up twelve massive pre-protocluster candidates plus a few protoclusters. For this search, we selected 47 FIR-bright IRAS sources in the outer Galaxy. We mapped regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Klein , B. Posselt , K. Schreyer , J. Forbrich , Th. Henning

We analyze the filamentarity in the Las Campanas redshift survey (LCRS) and determine the length scale at which filaments are statistically significant. The largest length-scale at which filaments are statistically significant, real…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-06 Somnath Bharadwaj , Suketu Bhavsar , Jatush V. Sheth

Galaxies are not uniformly distributed in space. On large scales the Universe displays coherent structure, with galaxies residing in groups and clusters on scales of ~1-3 Mpc/h, which lie at the intersections of long filaments of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alison L. Coil