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We report the second complete molecular line data release from the {\em Census of High- and Medium-mass Protostars} (CHaMP), a large-scale, unbiased, uniform mapping survey at sub-parsec resolution, of mm-wave line emission from 303…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Peter J. Barnes , Audra K. Hernandez , Stefan N. O'Dougherty , William J. Schap , Erik Muller

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project is an unbiased Galactic plane CO survey for mapping regions of l=-10deg to +250deg and |b|<5.2deg with the 13.7 m telescope of the Purple Mountain Observatory. The legacy survey aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-08 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Shaobo Zhang , Yan Gong , Hongchi Wang , Xin Zhou , Min Wang , Zhiwei Chen , Yan Sun , Xuepeng Chen , Ye Xu , Zhibo Jiang

We report the global properties recovered by an ongoing CO survey of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) toward the Galactic outskirts. %To better understand the observational biases, Our results are also compared to those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Yan Sun , Ji Yang , Qing-Zeng Yan , Zehao Lin , Shaobo Zhang , Yang Su , Ye Xu , Xuepeng Chen , Hongchi Wang , Xin Zhou

We present the first data release (DR1) of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, a mapping in the J=(1-0) transition lines of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O toward the northern Galactic plane during 2011-2022. The MWISP survey was…

We have started a systematic survey of molecular clumps with infall motions to study the very early phase of star formation. Our first step is to utilize the data products by MWISP to make an unbiased survey for blue asymmetric line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Zhibo Jiang , Shaobo Zhang , Zhiwei Chen , Yang Yang , Shuling Yu , Haoran Feng , Ji Yang , the MWISP group

Spatial association of clumps from different tracers turns out to be a valuable tool to determine the physical properties of molecular clouds. It provides a reliable estimate for the $X$-factors, serves to trace the density of clumps seen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Todor V. Veltchev , Volker Ossenkopf-Okada , Orlin Stanchev , Nicola Schneider , Sava Donkov , Ralf S. Klessen

A comprehensive understanding of molecular clumps is essential for investigating star formation. We present an algorithm for molecular clump detection, called FacetClumps. This algorithm uses a morphological approach to extract signal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Yu Jiang , Zhiwei Chen , Sheng Zheng , Zhibo Jiang , Yao Huang , Shuguang Zeng , Xiangyun Zeng , Xiaoyu Luo

The Census of High- and Medium-mass Protostars (CHaMP) is the first large-scale, unbiased, uniform mapping survey at sub-parsec scale resolution of 90 GHz line emission from massive molecular clumps in the Milky Way. We present the first…

We present distances to 56 molecular clouds within $10\degr \leq l \leq 20\degr$ and $|b| \leq 5.25\degr$ from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) $^{12}$CO survey, 47 of which are first-time determinations. The molecular clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-20 Juan Mei , Zhiwei Chen , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Shiyu Zhang , Zhibo Jiang

Gravitational accretion accumulates the original mass, and this process is crucial for us to understand the initial phases of star formation. Using the specific infall profiles in optically thick and thin lines, we searched the clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 Yang Yang , Zhibo Jiang , Zhiwei Chen , Shaobo Zhang , Shuling Yu , Yiping Ao

The detection and parametrization of molecular clumps is the first step in studying them. We propose a method based on Local Density Clustering algorithm while physical parameters of those clumps are measured using the Multiple Gaussian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoyu Luo , Sheng Zheng , Yao Huang , Shuguang Zeng , Xiangyun Zeng , Zhibo Jiang , Zhiwei Chen

Filaments play a crucial role in providing the necessary environmental conditions for star formation, actively participating in the process. To facilitate the identification and analysis of filaments, we introduce DPConCFil (Directional and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Yu Jiang

The latest generation of high-angular-resolution unbiased Galactic plane surveys in molecular-gas tracers are enabling the interiors of molecular clouds to be studied across a range of environments. The CHIMPS survey simultaneously mapped a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 A. J. Rigby , T. J. T. Moore , D. J. Eden , J. S. Urquhart , S. E. Ragan , N. Peretto , R. Plume , M. A. Thompson , M. J. Currie , G. Park

We attempt to visually classify the morphologies of 18190 molecular clouds, which are identified in the $^{12}$CO(1-0) spectral line data over $\sim$ 450 deg$^{2}$ of the second Galactic quadrant from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Fujun Du , Xunchuan Liu , Shaobo Zhang , Zehao Lin , Jingfei Sun , Qing-Zeng Yan , Yuehui Ma , Yang Su , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou

We present $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O data as the next major release for the CHaMP project, an unbiased sample of Galactic molecular clouds in $l$ = 280$^{\circ}$-300$^{\circ}$. From a radiative transfer analysis, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Peter J. Barnes , Audra K. Hernandez , Erik Muller , Rebecca L. Pitts

We report the spatial distribution and physical characteristics of molecular clouds in the G24 region, which is located near the intersection of the Milky Way's Galactic bar with the Norma arm and the 3 kpc arm. Utilizing molecular line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-21 Tian Yang , Xi Chen , Xiao-Yun Xu , Yang Yang , En Chen , Jun Li , Bing-Gang Ju , Deng-Rong Lu

In order to understand the initial conditions and early evolution of star formation in a wide range of Galactic environments, we carried out an investigation of 64 \textit{Planck} Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) in the second quadrant of the…

Massive stars play an important role in the Universe. Unlike low-mass stars, the formation of these objects located at great distances is still unclear. It is expected to be governed by some combination of self-gravity, turbulence, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 A. G. Pazukhin , I. I. Zinchenko , E. A. Trofimova

After the morphological classification of the 18,190 $^{12}$CO molecular clouds, we further investigate the properties of their internal molecular gas structures traced by the $^{13}$CO($J=$ 1$-$0) line emissions. Using three different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Lixia Yuan , Ji Yang , Fujun Du , Yang Su , Xunchuan Liu , Shaobo Zhang , Yan Sun , Xin Zhou , Qing-Zeng Yan , Yuehui Ma

To investigate the effects of stellar feedback on the gravitational state of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), we study $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO ALMA maps of nine GMCs distributed throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the nearest…

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