Interstellar filament detection and characterization: methods and implications for studies of magnetized interstellar medium
arXiv:2606.31507 · doi:10.3390/galaxies14030053
Abstract
Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and play a key role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation. Their morphology and relative orientation with respect to magnetic fields have been widely used as a diagnostic of magnetohydrodynamic processes, turbulence, and gravitational accretion. In recent years, the growing availability of large continuum, spectroscopic, and polarization data stimulated the development of various filament detection techniques. In this review, we present a systematic overview of filament detection methods applied to observations of the interstellar medium. We classify the existing approaches into methodological categories, discuss underlying principles, illustrate their application on a same observational field, discuss limitations and advantages, in particular with respect to the studies of the relative alignment between magnetic fields and filaments. We conclude with presenting a point of view on the perspectives for filament studies in the era of ever-growing astronomical data volume.
20 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
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