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Observations of molecular lines are a key tool to determine the main physical properties of prestellar cores. However, not all the information is retained in the observational process or easily interpretable, especially when a larger number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 T. Grassi , M. Padovani , D. Galli , N. Vaytet , S. S. Jensen , E. Redaelli , S. Spezzano , S. Bovino , P. Caselli

We have conducted a mapping spectral line survey toward the Galactic giant molecular cloud W51 in the 3 mm band with the Mopra 22 m telescope in order to study an averaged chemical composition of the gas extended over a molecular cloud…

We investigate the linear correlation coefficient between the intensities at different wavelengths in photospheric and chromospheric spectral lines. Waves that propagate vertically through the stratified solar atmosphere affect different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Beck , W. Rammacher

We report the first uniform and systematic study of dust and molecular gas in nearby molecular clouds. We use surveys of dust extinction and emission to determine the opacity and map the distribution of the dust within a dozen local clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 John Arban Lewis , Charles J. Lada , Thomas Dame

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which observations of molecular clouds can correctly identify and measure star-forming clumps. We produced a synthetic column density map and a synthetic spectral-line data cube from the simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-23 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills , Nicolas Petitclerc

The colliding flows (CF) model is a well-supported mechanism for generating molecular clouds. However, to-date most CF simulations have focused on the formation of clouds in the normal-shock layer between head-on colliding flows. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-31 Erica Fogerty , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Christina Haig , Marissa Adams

We present H\alpha{} fluxes, star formation rates (SFRs) and equivalent widths (EWs) for a sample of 156 nearby galaxies observed in the 12CO J=3-2 line as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey. These are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. R. Sánchez-Gallego , J. H. Knapen , C. D. Wilson , P. Barmby , M. Azimlu , S. Courteau

Computation of a grid of self consistent 1D model atmospheres of cool stars, sub-stellar objects and exoplanets in the effective temperature range 300K to 3000K, including cloud formation, chemical non-equilibrium effects, and stellar…

The Spectral Form Factor (SFF) is a convenient tool for the characterization of eigenvalue statistics of systems with discrete spectra, and thus serves as a proxy for quantum chaoticity. This work presents an analytical calculation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 W. L. Vleeshouwers , V. Gritsev

We propose an anisotropic generalisation of the line correlation function (ALCF) to separate and quantify phase information in the large-scale structure of galaxies. The line correlation function probes the strictly non-linear regime of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Alexander Eggemeier , Thorsten Battefeld , Robert E. Smith , Jens Niemeyer

We compile a holistic scenario for molecular cloud (MC) evolution and control of the star formation efficiency (SFE), and present a first set of numerical tests of it. A {\it lossy} compressible cascade can generate density fluctuations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , J. Ballesteros-Paredes , R. S. Klessen

Supersonic random motions are observed in dark clouds and are traditionally interpreted as Alfven waves, but the possibility that these motions are super-Alfvenic has not been ruled out. In this work we report the results of numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Padoan , AAke Nordlund

We observed a 10x20 pc region of the molecular cloud M17 in the 12CO and 13CO J=3-2 and J=2-1 transitions to determine their global behavior and to assess the reliability of using ratios of CO line intensities integrated over an entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. D. Wilson , J. E. Howe , M. L. Balogh

A phenomenological power spectrum of primordial density perturbations has been constructed by using both COBE data to probe the large wavelength region, and a double power law, locally deduced from galaxy catalogs, which describes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Torres , R. Fabbri , R. Ruffini

In this article we present and study a scaling law of the $m\Gamma_m$ CMB Fourier spectrum on rings which allows us (i) to combine spectra corresponding to different colatitude angles (e.g. several detectors at the focal plane of a…

A simple, model-independent method to quantify the stochastic variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is the structure function (SF) analysis. If the SF for the timescales shorter than the decorrelation timescale $\tau$ is a single…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Szymon Kozłowski

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

The state of the atmosphere is governed by the classical laws of fluid motion and exhibits correlations in various spatial and temporal scales. These correlations are crucial to understand the short and long term trends in climate. Cirrus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Ivanova , T. P. Ackerman , E. E. Clothiaux , P. Ch. Ivanov , H. E. Stanley , M. Ausloos

Molecular clouds are active sites of star formation in galaxies, and their formation and evolution are largely affected by stellar feedback. This includes outflows and winds from newly formed stars, radiation from young clusters, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 K. R. Neralwar , D. Colombo , S. Offner , A. Karska , M. Figueira , F. Wyrowski , S. Neupane , J. S. Urquhart , A. Duarte-Cabral

Understanding the behavior of complex molecular systems is a fundamental problem in physical chemistry. To describe the long-time dynamics of such systems, which is responsible for their most informative characteristics, we can identify a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jakub Rydzewski