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Molecular line emissions are commonly used to trace the distribution and properties of molecular Interstellar Medium (ISM). However, the emissions are heavily blended on the Galactic disk toward the inner Galaxy because of the relatively…

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To understand physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) on various scales, we investigate it at parsec resolution on the kiloparsec scale. Here, we report on the sub-kpc scale Gas Density Histogram (GDH) of the Milky Way. The GDH…

Our understanding of the dynamics of the interstellar medium is informed by the study of the detailed velocity structure of emission line observations. One approach to study the velocity structure is to decompose the spectra into individual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Riener , Jouni Kainulainen , Jonathan D. Henshaw , Jan H. Orkisz , Claire E. Murray , Henrik Beuther

The statistical description of Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) properties relies heavily on the performance of automatic identification algorithms, which are often seriously affected by the survey design. The algorithm we designed, SCIMES…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Dario Colombo , Erik Rosolowsky , Adam Ginsburg , Ana Duarte-Cabral , Annie Hughes

Clustering algorithms can help reconstruct the assembly history of the Milky Way by identifying groups of stars sharing similar properties in a kinematical or chemical abundance space. Despite being promising tools, their efficiency has not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Andrea Sante , Andreea S. Font , Dharmesh Mistry , Sandra Ortega-Martorell , Ivan Olier

Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the fundamental component of the interstellar medium. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is designed for hunting pulsars by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Tao Hong , J. L. Han , L. G. Hou , X. Y. Gao , Chen Wang , Tao Wang

Using Milky Way data of the new Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) and the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), we present a revised picture of the high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex Galactic Center Negative (GCN). Owing to the higher angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Winkel , Nadya Ben Bekhti , Verena Darmstädter , Lars Flöer , Jürgen Kerp , Philipp Richter

The mass fraction of dense gas within giant molecular clouds (GMCs) of the Milky Way is investigated using 13CO data from the FCRAO Galactic Plane Surveys and the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) of 1.1 mm dust continuum emission. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrew J. Battisti , Mark H. Heyer

Detecting stellar clusters have always been an important research problem in Astronomy. Although images do not convey very detailed information in detecting stellar density enhancements, we attempt to understand if new machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Arnab Karmakar , Deepak Mishra , Anandmayee Tej

The analysis of large molecular line surveys of the Galactic plane is essential for our understanding of the gas kinematics on Galactic scales, in particular its link with the formation and evolution of dense structures in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 M. Riener , J. Kainulainen , H. Beuther , J. D. Henshaw , J. H. Orkisz , Y. Wang

The spatial distribution of the gaseous components of the Milky Way is of great importance for a number of different fields, for example, Galactic structure, star formation, and cosmic rays. However, obtaining distance information to…

In the previous papers of this series, we have decomposed into Gaussian components all the HI 21-cm line profiles of the Leiden-Argentina-Bonn (LAB) database, and studied statistical distributions of the obtained Gaussians. Now we are…

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This document aims at reviewing the different types of clustering algorithms and substructures detection techniques in order to study the spatial and kinematic clustering of stars and detect the gas components in molecular clouds. It is the…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D scene reconstruction, which effectively balances rendering quality, efficiency, and speed. However, existing 3DGS approaches usually generate plausible outputs and face significant…

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We report a narrowband technosignature search toward five Milky Way globular clusters (NGC 6171, NGC 6218, NGC 6254, NGC 6838, and IC 1276) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) 19-beam L-band receiver…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Vishal Gajjar

We apply the clustering algorithm HDBSCAN on the Gaia early third data release astrometry combined with the Gaia second data release radial velocity measurements of almost 5.5 million stars to identify the local stellar kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaowei Ou , Lina Necib , Anna Frebel

Thin stellar streams originating from globular clusters are among the most sensitive tracers of low-mass dark-matter subhalos. Joint analysis of the entire population of stellar streams will place the most robust constraints on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Sarah Pearson , Ana Bonaca , Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Spectral clustering is a powerful technique for clustering high-dimensional data, utilizing graph-based representations to detect complex, non-linear structures and non-convex clusters. The construction of a similarity graph is essential…

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We outline a method to measure the detailed chemical composition of extragalactic (unresolved) globular clusters (GCs) from echelle spectra of their integrated light. Our goal is to use this method to measure abundance patterns of GCs in…

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