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We present synthetic Hi and CO observations of a simulation of decaying turbulence in the thermally bistable neutral medium. We first present the simulation, with clouds initially consisting of clustered clumps. Self-gravity causes these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Jonathan S. Heiner , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Javier Ballesteros-Paredes

We aim to explore the capabilities of dust emission and rays for probing the properties of the interstellar medium in the nearby anti-centre region, using gamma-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and the thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-10 Q. Remy , I. A. Grenier , D. J. Marshall , J. M. Casandjian

We present a complete survey of CO 1->0 emission in the Local Group dwarf irregular IC 10. The survey, conducted with the BIMA interferometer, covers the stellar disk and a large fraction of the extended HI envelope with the sensitivity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Leroy , A. D. Bolatto , F. Walter , L. Blitz

We study effect of magnetic field on massive dense core formation in colliding unequal molecular clouds by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations with sub-parsec resolution (0.015 pc) that can resolve the molecular cores. Initial clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-23 Nirmit Sakre , Asao Habe , Alex R. Pettitt , Takashi Okamoto

We present compelling observational evidence supporting G178.28-00.61 as an early-stage candidate for Cloud-Cloud Collision (CCC), with indications of the formation of an S-shaped filament, evenly-separated dense cores, and young star…

We decomposed the molecular gas in the spiral galaxy NGC 628 (M74) into multi-scale hub-filament structures using the CO (2-1) line by the dendrogram algorithm. All leaf structures as potential hubs were classified into three categories,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-06 J. W. Zhou , Sami Dib , Timothy A. Davis

Molecular clouds (MCs) are highly structured and ``turbulent''. Colliding gas streams of atomic hydrogen have been suggested as a possible source of MCs, imprinting the filamentary structure as a consequence of dynamical and thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Heitsch , A. Burkert , L. Hartmann , A. D. Slyz , J. E. G. Devriendt

In order to precisely determine temperature and density of molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we made observations of optically thin $^{13}$CO($J=3-2$) transition by using the ASTE 10m telescope toward 9 peaks where…

Hundreds of high-velocity atomic gas clouds exist above and below the Galactic Centre, with some containing a molecular component. However, the origin of these clouds in the Milky Way's wind is unclear. This paper presents new…

Protostellar multiplicity is a common outcome of the star formation process. To fully understand the formation and evolution of these systems, the physical parameters of the molecular gas together with the dust must be systematically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 N. M. Murillo , C. M. Fuchs , D. Harsono , T. -H. Hsieh , D. Johnstone , R. Mignon-Risse , M. V. Persson , N. Sakai

Does star formation proceed in the same way in large spirals such as the Milky Way and in smaller chemically younger galaxies? Earlier work suggests a more rapid transformation of H$_2$ into stars in these objects but (1) a doubt remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Jonathan Braine , Pierre Gratier , Carsten Kramer , Karl F. Schuster , Fatemeh Tabatabaei , Erwan Gardan

A reliable estimate of the molecular gas content in galaxies plays a crucial role in determining their dynamical and star-forming properties. However, H2, the dominant molecular species, is difficult to observe directly, particularly in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Bell , E. Roueff , S. Viti , D. A. Williams

The physical state of cold cloud clumps has a great impact on the process and efficiency of star formation and the masses of the forming stars inside these objects. The sub-millimetre survey of the Planck space observatory and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-25 O. Fehér , M. Juvela , T. Lunttila , J. Montillaud , I. Ristorcelli , S. Zahorecz , L. V. Tóth

The star-forming ability of a molecular cloud depends on the fraction of gas it can cycle into the dense-phase. Consequently, one of the crucial questions in reconciling star-formation in clouds is to understand the factors that control…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 S. Anathpindika , A. Burkert , R. Kuiper

We present 12CO(1->0) observations of 45 giant molecular clouds in M33 made with the BIMA array. The observations have a linear resolution of 20 pc, sufficient to measure the sizes of most GMCs in the sample. We place upper limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erik Rosolowsky , Greg Engargiola , Richard Plambeck , Leo Blitz

Towards the high galactic latitude sky, the far-infrared (FIR) intensity is tightly correlated to the total hydrogen column density which is made up of atomic (HI) and molecular hydrogen (H$_{2})$. Above a certain column density threshold,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Tobias Röhser , Jürgen Kerp , Benjamin Winkel , Francois Boulanger , Guilaine Lagache

The Galactic Center 50 km s$^{-1}$ Molecular Cloud (50MC) is the most remarkable molecular cloud in the Sagittarius A region. This cloud is a candidate for the massive star formation induced by cloud-cloud collision (CCC) with a collision…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-07 Kenta Uehara , Masato Tsuboi , Yoshimi Kitamura , Ryosuke Miyawaki

We have carried out a search for filamentary structures in the Taurus molecular cloud using $\rm^{13}CO$ line emission data from the FCRAO survey of $\rm \sim100 \, deg^2$. We have used the topological analysis tool, DisPerSe, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , P. F. Goldsmith , M. H. Heyer

We study the molecular gas properties of two star-forming galaxies separated by 6 kpc in the projected space and belonging to a galaxy cluster selected from the Irac Shallow Cluster Survey, at a redshift $z=1.2$, i.e., $\sim2$ Gyr after the…

{It has recently been proposed that giant molecular complexes form at the sites where streams of diffuse warm atomic gas collide at transonic velocities.} {We study the global statistics of molecular clouds formed by large scale colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Banerjee , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , R. Klessen , E. Audit