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most citedThe ALMA Survey of 70 m Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). IX. Physical Properties and Spatial Distribution of Cores in IRDCs

68 citations · 460 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). XIII. Core Mass Function, Lifetime, and Growth of Prestellar Cores

Kaho Morii, Patricio Sanhueza, Qizhou Zhang +10

The core mass function (CMF) of prestellar cores is essential for understanding the initial conditions of star and cluster formation. However, the universality of the CMF and its r…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Dense Molecular Ring-like structure in gaseous CO depletion region G34.74-0.12

Shuting Lin, Siyi Feng, Fengwei Xu +14

We report the discovery of a dense molecular ring-like structure in a dense (10 cm), cold (pc-scale CO depletion at a factor of 5), and young (10 year) star-forming…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Cosmic-ray ionisation rate in low-mass cores: the role of the environment

E. Redaelli, S. Bovino, G. Sabatini +6

Context: Cosmic rays drive several key processes for the chemistry and dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Their effect is quantified mainly by means of the cosmic-ray ion…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The ALMA Survey of 70 m Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). XII. Unanchored Forked Stream in the Propagating Path of a Protostellar Outflow

Shuting Lin, Siyi Feng, Patricio Sanhueza +14

Outflows are key indicators of ongoing star formation. We report the discovery of an unanchored forked stream within the propagating path of an extremely young protostellar outflow…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Impact of cosmic-ray propagation on the chemistry and ionisation fraction of dark clouds

G. Latrille, A. Lupi, S. Bovino +3

A proper modelling of the cosmic-ray ionisation rate within gas clouds is crucial to describe their chemical evolution accurately. However, this modelling is computationally demand…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 6 cited

Gas infall via accretion disk feeding Cepheus A HW2

A. Sanna, A. Oliva, L. Moscadelli +10

The star-forming region Cepheus A hosts a very young star, called HW2, that is the second closest to us growing a dozen times more massive than our Sun. The circumstellar environme…

astro-ph.GA2024

Time evolution of o-HD, ND, and NH during the high-mass star formation process

G. Sabatini, S. Bovino, E. Redaelli +5

Deuterium fractionation is a well-established evolutionary tracer in low-mass star formation, but its applicability to the high-mass regime remains an open question. The abundances…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 13 cited

Parsec-scale cosmic-ray ionisation rate in Orion

A. Socci, G. Sabatini, M. Padovani +2

Cosmic rays regulate the dynamics and the chemical processes in the densest and coldest regions of the ISM. Still, the determination of the cosmic-ray ionisation rate of H (${ζ…

astro-ph.SR2024

FAUST XI: Enhancement of the complex organic material in the shocked matter surrounding the [BHB2007] 11 protobinary system

C. Vastel, T. Sakai, C. Ceccarelli +20

iCOMs are species commonly found in the interstellar medium. They are believed to be crucial seed species for the build-up of chemical complexity in star forming regions as well as…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA Survey of 70 m Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). XI. Statistical Study of Early Fragmentation

Kaho Morii, Patricio Sanhueza, Qizhou Zhang +9

Fragmentation during the early stages of high-mass star formation is crucial for understanding the formation of high-mass clusters. We investigated fragmentation within thirty-nine…

astro-ph.GA2024

Testing analytical methods to derive the cosmic-ray ionisation rate in cold regions via synthetic observations

E. Redaelli, S. Bovino, A. Lupi +4

Cosmic rays (CRs) heavily impact the chemistry and physics of cold and dense star-forming regions. However, characterising their ionisation rate is still challenging from an observ…

astro-ph.SR2024

FAUST XII. Accretion streamers and jets in the VLA 1623--2417 protocluster

C. Codella, L. Podio, M. De Simone +23

The ALMA interferometer has played a key role in revealing a new component of the Sun-like star forming process: the molecular streamers, i.e. structures up to thousands of au long…

astro-ph.GA2023

The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). X: Hot Gas Reveals Deeply Embedded Star Formation

Natsuko Izumi, Patricio Sanhueza, Patrick M. Koch +10

Massive infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are considered to host the earliest stages of high-mass star formation. In particular, 70 m dark IRDCs are the colder and more quiescent clo…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 68 cited

The ALMA Survey of 70 m Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). IX. Physical Properties and Spatial Distribution of Cores in IRDCs

Kaho Morii, Patricio Sanhueza, Fumitaka Nakamura +13

The initial conditions found in infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) provide insights on how high-mass stars and stellar clusters form. We have conducted high-angular resolution and high-s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 43 cited

The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). VIII. Dynamics of Embedded Dense Cores

Shanghuo Li, Patricio Sanhueza, Qizhou Zhang +9

We present the dynamical properties of 294 cores embedded in twelve IRDCs observed as part of the ASHES Survey. Protostellar cores have higher gas masses, surface densities, column…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

First ALMA maps of cosmic ray ionisation rate in high-mass star-forming regions

Giovanni Sabatini, Stefano Bovino, Elena Redaelli

Low-energy cosmic rays ( TeV) are a pivotal source of ionisation of the interstellar medium, where they play a central role in determining the gas chemical composition and dras…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 28 cited

The ALMA Survey of 70 Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). VII: Chemistry of Embedded Dense Cores

Shanghuo Li, Patricio Sanhueza, Xing Lu +15

We present a study of chemistry toward 294 dense cores in 12 molecular clumps using the data obtained from the ALMA Survey of 70 dark High-mass clumps in Early Stages (ASH…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The core population and kinematics of a massive clump at early stages: an ALMA view

E. Redaelli, S. Bovino, P. Sanhueza +5

High-mass star formation theories make distinct predictions on the properties of the prestellar seeds of high-mass stars. Observations of the early stages of high-mass star formati…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 29 cited

The ALMA Survey of 70 μm Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). VI. The core-scale CO-depletion

Giovanni Sabatini, Stefano Bovino, Patricio Sanhueza +11

Studying the physical and chemical properties of cold and dense molecular clouds is crucial for the understanding of how stars form. Under the typical conditions of infrared dark c…

astro-ph.SR2022

Synthetic observations using POLARIS: an application to simulations of massive prestellar cores

Joaquin Zamponi, Andrea Giannetti, Stefano Bovino +5

Young massive stars are usually found embedded in dense and massive molecular clumps which are known for being highly obscured and distant. During their formation process, the degr…

astro-ph.GA2021

Chemical analysis of prestellar cores in Ophiuchus yields short timescales and rapid collapse

Stefano Bovino, Alessandro Lupi, Andrea Giannetti +4

Sun-like stars form from the contraction of cold and dense interstellar clouds. How the collapse proceeds and what are the main physical processes driving it, however, is still und…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 39 cited

Establishing the evolutionary timescales of the massive star formation process through chemistry

G. Sabatini, S. Bovino, A. Giannetti +6

(Abridged) Understanding the details of the formation process of massive (i.e. M<8-10M) stars is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. [...] We present a method to deriv…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 34 cited

Identification of prestellar cores in high-mass star forming clumps via observations with ALMA

E. Redaelli, S. Bovino, A. Giannetti +5

Context. The different theoretical models concerning the formation of high-mass stars make distinct predictions regarding their progenitors, i.e. the high-mass prestellar cores. Ho…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 37 cited

Survey of ortho-HD in high-mass star-forming regions

G. Sabatini, S. Bovino, A. Giannetti +7

(Abridged) We present a large sample of o-HD observations in high-mass star-forming regions and discuss possible empirical correlations with relevant physical quantities to…