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astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: Detection of two extremely dense substructures in a massive prestellar core

Xiaofeng Mai, Tie Liu, Xunchuan Liu +32

Only a handful of massive starless core candidates have been discovered so far, but none of them have been fully confirmed. Within the MM1 clump in the filamentary infrared dark cl…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-ATOMS survey: A sample of weak hot core candidates identified through line stacking

Zi-Yang Li, Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu +33

Hot cores represent critical astrophysical environments for high-mass star formation, distinguished by their rich spectra of organic molecular emission lines. We aim to utilize hig…

astro-ph.GA2024

A survey of sulfur-bearing molecular lines toward the dense cores in eleven massive protoclusters

Mengyao Tang, Sheng-Li Qin, Tie Liu +6

Sulfur-bearing molecules are commonly detected in dense cores within star-forming regions, but the total sulfur budget is significantly low, when compared to the interstellar mediu…

astro-ph.GA2025

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -XXI. A Large-sample Observational Study of Ethanol and Dimethyl Ether in Hot Cores

Zhiping Kou, Xiaohu Li, Sheng-Li Qin +21

Hot cores, as a stage of massive star formation, exhibit abundant line emissions of COMs. We present a deep line survey of two isomers of CHO: ethanol (CHOH; EA), a…

astro-ph.SR2018

ALMA Observations of Ethyl Formate toward Orion KL

Yaping Peng, V. M. Rivilla, Li Zhang +2

Orion KL is one of the prime templates of astrochemical and prebiotic chemical studies. We wish to explore more organic molecules with increasing complexity in this region. In part…

astro-ph.GA2022

Formation of hub-filament structure triggered by cloud-cloud collision in W33 complex

Jian-Wen Zhou, Shanghuo Li, Hong-Li Liu +6

Hub-filament systems are suggested to be birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters, but the formation of hub-filament structure is still unclear. Using the survey data FUGIN $^…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Properties of Hot Molecular Fragments in the Massive Protocluster IRAS 17233-3606

Li Chen, Sheng-Li Qin, Dongting Yang +29

To investigate the physical mechanisms of fragmentation within the hot molecular core of the massive protocluster IRAS 17233-3606 (G351.78-0.54), we carried out a detailed analysis…

astro-ph.GA2022

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- XI. From inflow to infall in hub-filament systems

Jian-Wen Zhou, Tie Liu, Neal J. Evans +37

We investigate the presence of hub-filament systems in a large sample of 146 active proto-clusters, using HCO J=1-0 molecular line data obtained from the ATOMS survey.…

cs.LG2025

pUniFind: a unified large pre-trained deep learning model pushing the limit of mass spectra interpretation

Jiale Zhao, Pengzhi Mao, Kaifei Wang +12

Deep learning has advanced mass spectrometry data interpretation, yet most models remain feature extractors rather than unified scoring frameworks. We present pUniFind, the first l…

astro-ph.SR2019

Sulfur-bearing molecules in Orion KL

Gan Luo, Siyi Feng, Di Li +5

We present an observational study of the sulfur (S)-bearing species towards Orion KL at 1.3 mm by combining ALMA and IRAM-30\,m single-dish data. At a linear resolution of 80…

astro-ph.GA2015

Complex molecules in W51 North region

Jialei Rong, Sheng-Li Qin, Luis A. Zapata +6

We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) molecular line observations in two 2 GHz-wide bands centered at 217.5 and 227.5 GHz, toward the massive star forming region W51 North. We ident…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-ATOMS survey: Methanol emission in a large sample of hot molecular cores

Jiahang Zou, Tie Liu, Sheng-Li Qin +26

Methanol (CHOH) is a key complex organic molecule (COM) in the interstellar medium, widely used as a tracer of dense gas and hot molecular cores (HMCs). Using high-resolution…

astro-ph.GA2026

Probing Star-Forming Properties via ALMA Observations of Massive Protocluster IRAS 15596-5301

Faxian Chang, Mengyao Tang, Tie Liu +8

To deepen our understanding of star-forming properties, we studied a massive protocluster IRAS 15596-5301 using ALMA 870 um and 3 mm data. High-resolution 870 um data reveal 34 den…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-ATOMS survey: Vibrationally excited HCN lines in hot cores

Li Chen, Sheng-Li Qin, Tie Liu +26

Interstellar molecules are excellent tools for studying the physical and chemical environments of massive star-forming regions. In particular, vibrationally excited HCN (HC

astro-ph.GA2022

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- VIII. A search for hot cores by using CHCN, CHOCHO and CHOH lines

Sheng-Li Qin, Tie Liu, Xunchuan Liu +29

Hot cores characterized by rich lines of complex organic molecules are considered as ideal sites for investigating the physical and chemical environments of massive star formation.…