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most citedProperties of Hi-GAL clumps in the inner Galaxy]{The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue. I. The physical properties of the clumps in the inner Galaxy ()

201 citations · 465 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The 10-15 GHz radio continuum survey of the Galactic Plane with SKAO

A. Traficante, C. Mininni, F. Cavallaro +63

Star formation emerges from the complex interplay between gravity, turbulence, magnetic fields, and stellar feedback, all of which vary across spatial scales and Galactic environme…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMAGAL IX. The chemical complexity of AG318.9477-00.1960: A line-identification template for ALMAGAL

J. Allande, M. T. Beltrán, V. M. Rivilla +36

We present a detailed molecular line analysis of one of the most chemically rich cores in the ALMAGAL sample, the high-mass core~9 in the AG318.9477-00.1960 clump (AG318-c9), locat…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMAGAL VIII. Early phases of triggered star formation in source AG286.07161.8229

C. Mininni, S. Molinari, W. J. Kim +50

Several theoretical and observational studies have shown that new waves of triggered star-formation can be induced by the feedback from newly formed massive protostars, due to the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

ALMAGAL V. Relations between the core populations and the parent clump physical properties

D. Elia, A. Coletta, S. Molinari +54

Context. The fragmentation of massive molecular clumps into smaller, potentially star-forming cores plays a key role in the processes of high-mass star formation. The ALMAGAL proje…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

ALMAGAL IV. Morphological comparison of molecular and thermal dust emission using the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) method

C. Mininni, S. Molinari, J. D. Soler +46

The study of molecular line emission is crucial to unveil the kinematics and the physical conditions of gas in star-forming regions. Our aim is to quantify the reliability of using…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Anisotropy in the carbon monoxide (CO) line emission across the Milky Way's disk

J. D. Soler, M. Heyer, M. Benedettini +11

We present a study of the CO(1-0) line emission anisotropy across the Milky Way's disk to examine the effect of stellar feedback and Galactic dynamics on the distribution of…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMAGAL III. Compact source catalog: Fragmentation statistics and physical evolution of the core population

A. Coletta, S. Molinari, E. Schisano +49

The mechanisms behind the fragmentation of high-mass dense clumps into compact star-forming cores are fundamental topics in current astrophysical research. The ALMAGAL survey provi…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMAGAL II. The ALMA evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy. ALMA data processing and pipeline

Á. Sánchez-Monge, C. L. Brogan, T. R. Hunter +53

The ALMAGAL Large Program has observed 1017 high-mass star-forming regions distributed throughout the Galaxy, sampling different evolutionary stages and environmental conditions. I…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMAGAL I. The ALMA evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy. Presentation of the survey and early results

S. Molinari, P. Schilke, C. Battersby +73

Fundamental questions about the physics responsible for fragmenting molecular parsec-scale clumps into cores of ~1000 au are still open, that only a statistically significant inves…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Extended atomic carbon around molecular clouds

V. Ossenkopf-Okada, A. Karska, M. Benedettini +2

Models predict that atomic carbon occurs at the surface and in the process of the formation of molecular clouds, making its fine structure transitions a diagnostic of cloud formati…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 30 cited

Dynamical Accretion Flows -- ALMAGAL: Flows along filamentary structures in high-mass star-forming clusters

M. R. A. Wells, H. Beuther, S. Molinari +47

We use data from the ALMA Evolutionary Study of High Mass Protocluster Formation in the Galaxy (ALMAGAL) survey to study 100 ALMAGAL regions at 1 arsecond resolution located…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

A panoptic view of the Taurus molecular cloud I. The cloud dynamics revealed by gas emission and 3D dust

J. D. Soler, C. Zucker, J. E. G. Peek +14

We present a study of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of interstellar dust derived from stellar extinction observations toward the Taurus molecular cloud (MC) and its relat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 20 cited

Molecular cloud catalogue from CO(1-0) data of the Forgotten Quadrant Survey

M. Benedettini, A. Traficante, L. Olmi +13

New-generation spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way plane have been revealing the structure of the interstellar medium, allowing the simultaneous study of dense structures from s…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 106 cited

The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue -- II. The 360° catalogue of clump physical properties

D. Elia, M. Merello, S. Molinari +29

We present the catalogue of physical properties of Hi-GAL compact sources, detected between 70 and 500 m. This release not only completes the analogous catalogue pre…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

The Forgotten Quadrant Survey. CO and CO (1-0) survey of the Galactic Plane in the range 220°240° -2.5°0°

M. Benedettini, S. Molinari, A. Baldeschi +12

We present the Forgotten Quadrant Survey (FQS), an ESO large project that used the 12m antenna of the Arizona Radio Observatory to map the Galactic Plane in the range 220°240°…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 9 cited

Vialactea Visual Analytics tool for Star Formation studies of the Galactic Plane

F. Vitello, E. Sciacca, U. Becciani +14

We present a visual analytics tool, based on the VisIVO suite, to exploit a combination of all new-generation surveys of the Galactic Plane to study the star formation process of t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 201 cited

Properties of Hi-GAL clumps in the inner Galaxy]{The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue. I. The physical properties of the clumps in the inner Galaxy ()

D. Elia, S. Molinari, E. Schisano +83

Hi-GAL is a large-scale survey of the Galactic plane, performed with Herschel in five infrared continuum bands between 70 and 500 m. We present a band-merged catalogue of spatia…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 36 cited

Spatial distribution of star formation related to ionized regions throughout the inner Galactic plane

P. Palmeirim, A. Zavagno, D. Elia +35

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of star-forming objects located in the vicinities of 1 360 bubble structures throughout the Galactic Plane and their local environme…