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astro-ph.GA2012★ 182 cited

The Co-ordinated Radio and Infrared Survey for High-Mass Star Formation - II. Source Catalogue

C. R. Purcell, M. G. Hoare, W. D. Cotton +27

The CORNISH project is the highest resolution radio continuum survey of the Galactic plane to date. It is the 5 GHz radio continuum part of a series of multi-wavelength surveys tha…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 224 cited

Measurement and correction of variations in interstellar dispersion in high-precision pulsar timing

M. J. Keith, W. Coles, R. M. Shannon +16

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microse…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 79 cited

Water absorption in Galactic translucent clouds: conditions and history of the gas derived from Herschel/HIFI PRISMAS observations

N. Flagey, P. F. Goldsmith, D. C. Lis +8

We present Herschel/HIFI observations of nine transitions of \hho and \hheo towards six high-mass star-forming regions, obtained as part of the PRISMAS Key Program. Water vapor in…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 21 cited

Are Large, Cometary-Shaped Proplyds really (free-floating) EGGs?

R. Sahai, R. Guesten, M. R. Morris

We report the detection of strong and compact molecular line emission (in the CO J=3-2, 4-3, 6-5, 7-6, 13CO J=3-2, HCN and HCO+ J=4-3 transitions) from a cometary-shaped object (Ca…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 180 cited

Collisional Excitation of the [CII] Fine Structure Transition in Interstellar Clouds

Paul F. Goldsmith, William D. Langer, Jorge L. Pineda +1

We analyze the collisional excitation of the 158 micron (1900.5 GHz) fine structure transition of ionized carbon (C+) in terms of line intensities produced by simple cloud models.…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 12 cited

IRAS 19520+2759: a 10^5 Lsun massive young stellar object driving a collimated outflow

Aina Palau, Carmen Sánchez Contreras, Raghvendra Sahai +2

The theory of massive star formation currently suffers from a scarce observational base of massive young stellar objects to compare with. In this paper, we present OVRO CO(1-0), 13…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 17 cited

Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the globular cluster RZ 2109 and the nature of its black hole

Mark B. Peacock, Stephen E. Zepf, Arunav Kundu +7

We present optical HST/STIS spectroscopy of RZ 2109, a globular cluster in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4472. This globular cluster is notable for hosting an ultraluminous X-ray sourc…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 7 cited

A search for co-evolving ion and neutral gas species in prestellar molecular cloud cores

Konstantinos Tassis, Talayeh Hezareh, Karen Willacy

Comparison of linewidths of spectral line profiles of ions and neutral molecules have been recently used to estimate the strength of the magnetic field in turbulent star-forming re…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 38 cited

Spitzer Observations of Hotspots in Radio Lobes

Michael W. Werner, David W. Murphy, John H. Livingston +5

We have carried out a systematic search with Spitzer Warm Mission and archival data for infrared emission from the hotspots in radio lobes that have been described by Hardcastle et…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 82 cited

Nitrogen hydrides in interstellar gas II. Analysis of Herschel/HIFI observations towards W49N and G10.6-0.4 (W31C)

C. M. Persson, M. De Luca, B. Mookerjea +14

We have used the Herschel-HIFI instrument to observe interstellar nitrogen hydrides along the sight-lines towards W49N and G10.6-0.4 in order to elucidate the production pathways l…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 183 cited

The Co-ordinated Radio and Infrared Survey for High Mass Star Formation (The CORNISH Survey) - I. Survey Design

M. G. Hoare, C. R. Purcell, E. B. Churchwell +26

We describe the motivation, design and implementation of the CORNISH survey, an arcsecond resolution radio continuum survey of the inner Galactic plane at 5 GHz using the Karl G. J…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 42 cited

The chemistry of C3 & Carbon Chain Molecules in DR21(OH)

B. Mookerjea, G. Hassel, M. Gerin +14

(Abridged) We have observed velocity resolved spectra of four ro-vibrational far-infrared transitions of C3 between the vibrational ground state and the low-energy nu2 bending mode…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 81 cited

Massive Quiescent Cores in Orion: Dynamical State Revealed by High-Resolution Ammonia Maps

D. Li, J. Kauffmann, Q. Zhang +1

We present combined VLA and Green Bank Telescope images of \ammonia\ inversion transitions (1,1) and (2,2) toward OMC2 and OMC3. We focus on the relatively quiescent Orion cores, w…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 47 cited

Is the Taurus B213 Region a True Filament?: Observations of Multiple Cyanoacetylene Transitions

Di Li, Paul F. Goldsmith

We have obtained spectra of the J=2-1 and J=10-9 transitions of cyanoacetylene (\hc3n) toward a collection of positions in the most prominent filament, B213, in the Taurus molecula…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 24 cited

Submillimeter Line Emission from LMC 30Dor: The Impact of a Starburst on a Low Metallicity Environment

Jorge L. Pineda, Norikazu Mizuno, Markus Roellig +4

(Abridged) The 30 Dor region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the most vigorous star-forming region in the Local Group. Star formation in this region is taking place in low-m…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 355 cited

Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth

B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, W. Lyra +1

Here we propose a mechanism for efficiently growing intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in disks around supermassive black holes. Stellar mass objects can efficiently agglomerate…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 43 cited

13CO Cores in Taurus Molecular Cloud

Lei Qian, Di Li, Paul Goldsmith

Young stars form in molecular cores, which are dense condensations within molecular clouds. We have searched for molecular cores traced by CO emission in the Taur…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 50 cited

A multi-wavelength investigation of RCW175: an HII region harboring spinning dust emission

C. T. Tibbs, R. Paladini, M. Compiegne +9

Using infrared, radio continuum and spectral observations, we performed a detailed investigation of the HII region RCW175. We determined that RCW175, which actually consists of two…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 33 cited

[CII] 158 micron line detection of the warm ionized medium in the Scutum--Crux spiral arm tangency

T. Velusamy, W. D. Langer, J. L. Pineda +1

HIFI GOT C+ Galactic plane [CII] spectral survey has detected strong emission at the spiral arm tangencies. We use the unique viewing geometry of the Scutum-Crux (S-C) tangency nea…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 87 cited

Herschel-SPIRE Imaging Spectroscopy of Molecular Gas in M82

J. Kamenetzky, J. Glenn, N. Rangwala +14

We present new Herschel-SPIRE imaging spectroscopy (194-671 microns) of the bright starburst galaxy M82. Covering the CO ladder from J=4-3 to J=13-12, spectra were obtained at mult…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 26 cited

The Resolved Stellar Population in 50 Regions of M83 from HST/WFC3 Early Release Science Observations

Hwihyun Kim, Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar +22

We present a multi-wavelength photometric study of ~15,000 resolved stars in the nearby spiral galaxy M83 (NGC5236, D=4.61Mpc) based on Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 o…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 40 cited

Herschel Search for O2 Toward the Orion Bar

Gary J. Melnick, Volker Tolls, Paul F. Goldsmith +15

We report the results of a search for molecular oxygen (O2) toward the Orion Bar, a prominent photodissociation region at the southern edge of the HII region created by the luminou…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 33 cited

A Simple Perspective on the Mass-Area Relationship in Molecular Clouds

Christopher Beaumont, Alyssa Goodman, Joao Alves +4

Despite over 30 years of study, the mass-area relationship within and among clouds is still poorly understood both observationally and theoretically. Modern extinction datasets sho…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 31 cited

H2D+ in the high mass star-forming Region Cygnus-X

Thushara Pillai, Paola Caselli, Jens Kauffmann +3

H2D+ is a primary ion which dominates the gas-phase chemistry of cold dense gas. Therefore it is hailed as a unique tool in probing the earliest, prestellar phase of star formation…