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most citedFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

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astro-ph.SR2025

New submillimetre HCN lasers in carbon-rich evolved stars

W. Yang, K. T. Wong, H. Wiesemeyer +6

Strong laser emission from hydrogen cyanide (HCN) at 805 and 891 GHz has been discovered towards carbon-rich (C-rich) AGB stars, originating from the Coriolis-coupled system betwee…

astro-ph.SR2023

NIKA2 observations of dust grain evolution from star-forming filament to T-Tauri disk: Preliminary results from NIKA2 observations of the Taurus B211/B213 filament

Q. Nguyen-Luong, R. Adam, P. Ade +51

To understand the evolution of dust properties in molecular clouds in the course of the star formation process, we constrain the changes in the dust emissivity index from star-form…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 7 cited

Molecules, shocks, and disk in the axi-symmetric wind of the MS-type AGB star RS Cancri

J. M. Winters, D. T. Hoai, K. T. Wong +6

The latest evolutionary phases of low- and intermediate mass stars are characterized by complex physical processes like turbulence, convection, stellar pulsations, magnetic fields,…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 60 cited

Angular momentum profiles of Class 0 protostellar envelopes

M. Gaudel, A. J. Maury, A. Belloche +10

[abridged] Understanding how the infalling gas redistribute most of its initial angular momentum inherited from prestellar cores before reaching the stellar embryo is a key questio…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 122 cited

Properties of the dense core population in Orion B as seen by the Herschel Gould Belt survey

V. Konyves, Ph. Andre, D. Arzoumanian +15

We present a detailed study of the Orion B clouds (d~400 pc), imaged with the PACS/SPIRE cameras at 70-500 m by the Herschel Gould Belt survey (HGBS). We release new high-res. m…

astro-ph.SR2019

NIKA2 observations around LBV stars: emission from stars and circumstellar material

J. Ricardo Rizzo, A. Ritacco, C. Bordiu

Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) stars are evolved massive objects, previous to core-collapse supernova. LBVs are characterized by photometric and spectroscopic variability, produced b…

astro-ph.SR2019

Simultaneous 22 GHz Water and 44 GHz Methanol Masers Survey of Ultracompact HII Regions

Won-Ju Kim, Kee-Tae Kim, Kwang-Tae Kim

We have carried out a multi-epoch simultaneous survey of 22 GHz HO and 44 GHz Class I CHOH masers toward 103 ultracompact HII regions (UCHIIs) between 2010 and 2017. We det…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited

Convective cells in Betelgeuse: imaging through spectropolarimetry

A. López Ariste, P. Mathias, B. Tessore +7

We assess the ability to image the photosphere of red supergiants and, in particular Betelgeuse, through the modelling of the observed linear polarization in atomic spectral lines.…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 6 cited

A slowly expanding torus associated with the candidate LBV MGE 042.0787+00.5084

C. Bordiu, J. R. Rizzo, A. Ritacco

The luminous blue variable (LBV) phase is a poorly understood stage in the evolution of high mass stars, characterized for its brevity and instability. The surroundings of LBV star…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 9 cited

The convective photosphere of the red supergiant CE Tau. I. VLTI/PIONIER H-band interferometric imaging

M. Montargès, R. Norris, A. Chiavassa +3

Context. Red supergiant stars are one of the latest stages in the evolution of massive stars. Their photospheric convection may play an important role in the launching mechanism of…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 23 cited

Magnetic field in IRC+10216 and other C-Rich Evolved Stars

A. Duthu, F. Herpin, H. Wiesemeyer +3

During the transition from the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) to Planetary Nebulae (PN), the circumstellar geometry and morphology change dramatically. Another characteristic of thi…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 1 cited

On the nature of the candidate T-Tauri star V501 Aurigae

M. Vaňko, G. Torres, L. Hambálek +18

We report new multi-colour photometry and high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the long-period variable V501 Aur, previously considered to be a weak-lined T-Tauri star bel…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 234 cited

The Spatial Distribution of Complex Organic Molecules in the L1544 Pre-stellar Core

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Anton I. Vasyunin, Paola Caselli +7

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward cold sources such as pre-stellar cores (with T<10 K), has challenged our understanding of the formation processes of COMs i…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 13 cited

Long-Term Photometry of IC 348 with the YETI Network

D. J. Fritzewski, M. Kitze, M. Mugrauer +29

We present long-term photometric observations of the young open cluster IC 348 with a baseline time-scale of 2.4 yr. Our study was conducted with several telescopes from the Young…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 16 cited

Temperatures of dust and gas in S~140

E. Koumpia, P. M. Harvey, V. Ossenkopf +4

In dense parts of interstellar clouds (> 10^5 cm^-3), dust & gas are expected to be in thermal equilibrium, being coupled via collisions. However, previous studies have shown that…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 99 cited

HOPS 383: An Outbursting Class 0 Protostar in Orion

Emily J. Safron, William J. Fischer, S. Thomas Megeath +11

We report the dramatic mid-infrared brightening between 2004 and 2006 of HOPS 383, a deeply embedded protostar adjacent to NGC 1977 in Orion. By 2008, the source became a factor of…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 14 cited

Origin of the ionized wind in MWC 349A

Alejandro Báez-Rubio, Jesús Martín-Pintado, Clemens Thum +2

The UC-HII region of MWC 349A is the prototype of an ionized wind driven by a massive star surrounded by a disk. Recent high angular resolution observations of the millimeter recom…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 144 cited

The identification of filaments on far infrared and submillimiter images. Morphology, physical conditions and relation with star formation of filamentary structure

E. Schisano, K. L. Rygl, S. Molinari +12

Observations of molecular clouds reveal a complex structure, with gas and dust often arranged in filamentary rather than spherical geometries. The associations of pre- and proto- s…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 19 cited

Molecular Jet of IRAS 04166+2706

Liang-Yao Wang, Hsien Shang, Yu-Nung Su +5

The molecular outflow from IRAS 04166+2706 was mapped with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 350 GHz continuum and CO J = 32 at an angular resolution of ~1 arcsec. The field of v…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 31 cited

A non-LTE radiative transfer model to study ionized outflows and disks. The case of MWC349A

Alejandro Báez-Rubio, Jesús Martín-Pintado, Clemens Thum +1

Context. The best example of a massive star with an ionized outflow launched from its photoevaporating disk is MWC349A. The large amount of reported radio-continuum and radio-recom…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 54 cited

Spectral line survey of the ultracompact HII region Mon R2

D. Ginard, M. González-García, A. Fuente +12

Ultracompact (UC) HII regions constitute one of the earliest phases in the formation of a massive star and are characterized by extreme physical conditions (Go>10^5 Habing field an…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 50 cited

The Origin of OB Clusters: From 10 pc to 0.1 pc

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci, Ke Wang +4

We observe the 1.2 mm continuum emission around the OB cluster forming region G10.6-0.4, using the IRAM 30m telescope MAMBO-2 bolometer array and the Submillimeter array. Compariso…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 53 cited

Herschel-HIFI observations of high-J CO lines in the NGC 1333 low-mass star-forming region

U. A. Yıldız, E. F. van Dishoeck, L. E. Kristensen +60

Herschel-HIFI observations of high-J lines (up to J_u=10) of 12CO, 13CO and C18O are presented toward three deeply embedded low-mass protostars, NGC 1333 IRAS 2A, IRAS 4A, and IRAS…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 45 cited

Herschel-HIFI detections of hydrides towards AFGL 2591 (Envelope emission versus tenuous cloud absorption)

S. Bruderer, A. O. Benz, E. F. van Dishoeck +65

The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) onboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows the first observations of light diatomic molecules at high spectral resolution a…