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most citedFOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) I: Project Overview and Initial Results

205 citations · 950 across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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50 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Head-tail molecular clouds falling onto the Milky Way disk

Mikito Kohno, Yasuo Fukui, Takahiro Hayakawa +13

We report discovery of two CO clouds which are likely falling down to the Galactic plane at more than km s. The clouds show head-tail distributions elongated perpendicu…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Infrared bubble recognition in the Milky Way and beyond using deep learning

Shimpei Nishimoto, Toshikazu Onishi, Atsushi Nishimura +9

We propose a deep learning model that can detect Spitzer bubbles accurately using two-wavelength near-infrared data acquired by the Spitzer Space Telescope and JWST. The model is b…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

ACA CO(J=2-1) Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. II. Exploring the Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds

Ayu Konishi, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Kazuki Tokuda +12

The evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main sites of high-mass star formation, is an essential process to unravel the galaxy evolution. Using a GMC catalogue of M33 fr…

astro-ph.GA2023

Predicting reliable H column density maps from molecular line data using machine learning

Yoshito Shimajiri, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Shinji Fujita +13

The total mass estimate of molecular clouds suffers from the uncertainty in the H-CO conversion factor, the so-called factor, which is used to convert the C…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

ACA CO() Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. I. Initial Results and Identification of Molecular Clouds

Kazuyuki Muraoka, Ayu Konishi, Kazuki Tokuda +18

We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m-array observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Giant molecular clouds and their Type classification in M74: Toward understanding star formation and cloud evolution

F. Demachi, Y. Fukui, R. I. Yamada +10

We investigated the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M74 (NGC 628), using data obtained from the PHANGS project. We applied the GMC Types according to the activity of star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Distance determination of molecular clouds in the 1st quadrant of the Galactic plane using deep learning : I. Method and Results

Shinji Fujita, A. M. Ito, Yusuke Miyamoto +15

Machine learning has been successfully applied in varied field but whether it is a viable tool for determining the distance to molecular clouds in the Galaxy is an open question. I…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Nobeyama 45 m Local Spur CO survey. I. Giant molecular filaments and cluster formation in the Vulpecula OB association

Mikito Kohno, Atsushi Nishimura, Shinji Fujita +13

We have performed new large-scale CO, CO, and CO 1-0 observations toward the Vulpecula OB association () as part of the Nobeyama 45 m Loca…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

Massive star formation in the Carina nebula complex and Gum 31 -- II. a cloud-cloud collision in Gum 31

Shinji Fujita, Hidetoshi Sano, Rei Enokiya +10

We present the results of analyses of the 12CO (J=1-0), 13CO (J=1-0), and 12CO (J=2-1) emission data toward Gum 31. Three molecular clouds separated in velocity were detected at -2…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Evidence for a Cloud-Cloud Collision in Sh2-233 Triggering the Formation of the High-mass Protostar Object IRAS 05358+3543

R. I. Yamada, Y. Fukui, H. Sano +7

We have carried out a new kinematical analysis of the molecular gas in the Sh2-233 region by using the CO = 2-1 data taken at 0.5 pc resolution. The molecular gas consist…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

A Kinematic Analysis of the Giant Molecular Complex W3; Possible Evidence for Cloud-Cloud Collisions that Triggered OB Star Clusters in W3 Main and W3(OH)

R. I. Yamada, H. Sano, K. Tachihara +6

W3 is one of the most outstanding regions of high-mass star formation in the outer solar circle, including two active star-forming clouds, W3 Main and W3(OH). Based on a new analys…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Development of a new wideband heterodyne receiver system for the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope -- Corrugated horn & Optics covering 210-375 GHz band

Yasumasa Yamasaki, Sho Masui, Hideo Ogawa +21

The corrugated horn is a high performance feed often used in radio telescopes. There has been a growing demand for wideband optics and corrugated horns in millimeter and submillime…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

Development of a new wideband heterodyne receiver system for the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope -- Receiver development & the first light of simultaneous observation in 230GHz and 345GHz bands with an SIS-mixer with 4-21GHz IF output

Sho Masui, Yasumasa Yamasaki, Hideo Ogawa +22

We have developed a wideband receiver system for simultaneous observations in CO lines of J = 2-1 and J = 3-2 transitions using the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope. As a frequency…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Observational demonstration of a low-cost fast Fourier transform spectrometer with a delay-line-based ramp-compare ADC implemented on FPGA

Atsushi Nishimura, Takeru Matsumoto, Teppei Yonetsu +5

In this study, a novel type of Fourier transform radio spectrometer (termed as all-digital radio spectrometer; ADRS) has been developed in which all functionalities comprising a ra…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 III: Spatially Resolved Features of the Star-Formation Inactive Million-solar-mass Cloud

Hiroshi Kondo, Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuyuki Muraoka +16

We present CO ( = 2-1), CO ( = 2-1), and CO ( = 2-1) observations toward GMC-8, one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M33 using ALM…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Observations of the [CI] (-) emission toward the massive star-forming region RCW38: further evidence for highly-clumped density distribution of the molecular gas

Natsuko Izumi, Yasuo Fukui, Kengo Tachihara +14

We present observations of the - fine-structure line of atomic carbon using the ASTE 10 m sub-mm telescope towards RCW38, the youngest super star cluster in the Milky…

astro-ph.IM2020

Current status and future plan of Osaka Prefecture University 1.85-m mm-submm telescope project

Atsushi Nishimura, Kazuki Tokuda, Ryohei Harada +25

We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal th…

astro-ph.IM2020

Development of the new multi-beam receiver and telescope control system for NASCO

Atsushi Nishimura, Akio Ohama, Kimihiro Kimura +59

We report the current status of the NASCO (NAnten2 Super CO survey as legacy) project which aims to provide all-sky CO data cube of southern hemisphere using the NANTEN2 4-m submil…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33. II. Triggered High-mass Star Formation by Multiple Gas Colliding Events at the NGC 604 Complex

Kazuyuki Muraoka, Hiroshi Kondo, Kazuki Tokuda +13

We present the results of ALMA observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() lines and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward a massive ($\sim 10^6 M_{\o…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

FOREST unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN): Possible evidence of cloud-cloud collisions triggering high-mass star formation in the giant molecular cloud M16 (Eagle Nebula)

Atsushi Nishimura, Shinji Fujita, Mikito Kohno +12

M16, the Eagle Nebula, is an outstanding \HII \ region which exhibits extensive high-mass star formation and hosts remarkable "pillars". We herein obtained new CO 1-0 da…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

A kinematic analysis of the CO clouds toward a reflection nebula NGC 2023 observed with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope; Further evidence for a cloud-cloud collision in the Orion region

R. Yamada, R. Enokiya, H. Sano +6

We have analyzed new CO( = 1-0) data in the region of a reflection nebula NGC 2023 with a particular focus on the detailed kinematical properties of the molecular gas. The resul…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

Triggered high-mass star formation in the HII region W28A2: A cloud-cloud collision scenario

Katsuhiro Hayashi, Satoshi Yoshiike, Rei Enokiya +15

We report on a study of the high-mass star formation in the the HII region W28A2 by investigating the molecular clouds extended over ~5-10 pc from the exciting stars using the 12CO…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

FOREST unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN). VII. molecular fraction of HI clouds

Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Shinji Fujita, Kengo Tachihara +5

In this study, we analyze molecular gas formation in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) clouds using the latest CO data obtained from the four-beam receiver system on a 45-m telescope (F…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

Massive star formation in the Carina nebula complex and Gum 31 -- I. The Carina nebula complex

Shinji Fujita, Hidetoshi Sano, Rei Enokiya +10

Herein, we present results from observations of the 12CO (J=1-0), 13CO (J=1-0), and 12CO (J=2-1) emission lines toward the Carina nebula complex (CNC) obtained with the Mopra and N…