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The classical picture of a star-forming filament is a near-equilibrium structure, with collapse dependent on its gravitational criticality. Recent observations have complicated this picture, revealing filaments as a mess of apparently…

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We present a molecular line study of the Sh2-138 (IRAS 22308+5812) hub-filament system with an aim to investigate its structure and kinematics. Archival CO molecular line data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CO(J=1-0)) for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Kshitiz Mallick , Lokesh Dewangan , Devendra Ojha , Tapas Baug , Igor Zinchenko

We present hydrodynamic simulations of self-gravitating dense gas in a galactic disk, exploring scales ranging from 1 kpc down to $\sim 0.1$~pc. Our primary goal is to understand how dense filaments form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Sven Van Loo

High-resolution ($<$0.1pc) ALMA observations of the 30Dor-10 molecular cloud 15pc north of R136 are presented. The $^{12}$CO 2-1 emission morphology contains clumps near the locations of known mid-infrared massive protostars, as well as a…

A total of 64 ATOMS sources at different evolutionary stages were selected to investigate the kinematics and dynamics of gas structures under feedback. We identified dense gas structures based on the integrated intensity map of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 J. W. Zhou , S. Dib , F. Wyrowski , T. Liu , S. H. Li , P. Sanhueza , M. Juvela , F. W. Xu , H. L. Liu , T. Baug , Y. P. Peng , K. M. Menten , L. Bronfman , C. W. Lee

Hub-filament systems (HFSs) are potential sites of formation of star clusters and high mass stars. To understand the HFSs and to provide observational constraints on current theories that attempt to explainstar formation globally, we report…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Bhaswati Mookerjea , V. S. Veena , Rolf Guesten , F. Wyrowski , Akhil Lasrado

We uncover a hub-filament system associated with massive star formation in the G083.097$+$03.270. Diagnosed with simultaneous $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O line observations, the region is found to host two distinct and elongated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Alik Panja , Lokesh K. Dewangan , Tapas Baug , Wen Ping Chen , Yan Sun , Tirthendu Sinha , Soumen Mondal

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 investigate the physical properties of gas structures under feedback in the G333 complex using data of the 13CO (3-2) line in the LAsMA observation. We used the Dendrogram algorithm to identify molecular gas structures based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 J. W. Zhou , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , I. Barlach Christensen , K. M. Menten , S. H. Li , T. Liu

We performed a large-scale mapping observation toward the W33 complex and its surroundings, covering an area of $1.3^\circ \times 1.0^\circ$ , in $^{12}$CO (1-0), $^{13}$CO (1-0), and C$^{18}$O (1-0) lines from the Purple Mountain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Xiao-Lan Liu , Jin-Long Xu , Jun-Jie Wang , Nai-Ping Yu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Nan Li , Guo-Yin Zhang

Recent millimeter/sub-millimeter facilities have revealed the physical properties of filamentary molecular clouds in relation to high-mass star formation. A uniform survey of the nearest, face-on star-forming galaxy, the Large Magellanic…

We study the vertical density distribution of stars and gas (HI and H_2) in a galactic disk which is embedded in a dark matter halo. The new feature of this work is the inclusion of gas, and the gravitational coupling between stars and gas,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Chanda J. Jog

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

We present a unified description of the scenario of Global Hierarchical Collapse and fragmentation (GHC) in molecular clouds (MCs), owing to the continuous decrease of the average Jeans mass in the contracting cloud. GHC constitutes a…

Shells are fine stellar structures identified by their arc-like shapes present around a galaxy and currently thought to be vestiges of galaxy interactions and/or mergers. The study of their number, geometry, stellar populations and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Brisa Mancillas , Francoise Combes , Pierre-Alain Duc

We present a numerical study of the balance between the gravitational (Eg), kinetic (Ek), and magnetic (Em) energies of structures within a hub-filament system in a simulation of the formation and global hierarchical collapse (GHC) of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Vianey Camacho , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Manuel Zamora-Avilés , Aina Palau

We aim to study the properties of the dense molecular gas towards the inner few 100 pc of four nearby starburst galaxies dominated both by photo dissociation regions (M82) and large-scale shocks (NGC253, IC342 and Maffei2), and to relate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rebeca Aladro , Jesus Martin-Pintado , Sergio Martin , Rainer Mauersberger , Estelle Bayet

Aims: We characterize and quantify this multi-scale flow for a prototypical high-mass star-forming region. Methods: In a multi-scale analysis from parsec to ~50au scales, we combined multiple single-dish and interferometric observations to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-20 H. Beuther , F. A. Olguin , P. Sanhueza , N. Cunningham , A. Ginsburg