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20182024
most citedThe MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane survey I -- System setup and early results

53 citations · 320 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2024

The Cygnus Allscale Survey of Chemistry and Dynamical Environments: CASCADE III. The large scale distribution of DCO+, DNC and DCN in the DR21 filament

I. Barlach Christensen, F. Wyrowski, V. S. Veena +12

Deuterated molecules and their molecular D/H-ratios (RD(D)) are important diagnostic tools to study the physical conditions of star-forming regions. The degree of deuteration, RD(D…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

The SOFIA FEEDBACK Legacy Survey: Rapid molecular cloud dispersal in RCW 79

L. Bonne, S. Kabanovic, N. Schneider +12

It has long been discussed whether stellar feedback in the form of winds and/or radiation can shred the nascent molecular cloud, thereby controlling the star formation rate. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Protonated hydrogen cyanide as a tracer of pristine molecular gas

Y. Gong, F. J. Du, C. Henkel +11

Protonated hydrogen cyanide, HCNH, plays a fundamental role in astrochemistry because it is an intermediary in gas-phase ion-neutral reactions within cold molecular clouds. H…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

First detection of deuterated methylidyne (CD) in the interstellar medium

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Friedrich Wyrowski +1

While the abundance of elemental deuterium is relatively low (D/H ~ a few 1E-5), orders of magnitude higher D/H abundance ratios have been found for many interstellar molecules, en…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 53 cited

The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane survey I -- System setup and early results

P. V. Padmanabh, E. D. Barr, S. S. Sridhar +30

Galactic plane radio surveys play a key role in improving our understanding of a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. Performing such a survey using the latest interferometric te…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

HyGAL: Characterizing the Galactic ISM with observations of hydrides and other small molecules II. The absorption line survey with the IRAM 30 m telescope

W. -J. Kim, P. Schilke, D. A. Neufeld +11

As a complement to the HyGAL Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Legacy Program, we report the results of a ground-based absorption line survey of simple molecules in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Ammonia in the interstellar medium of a starbursting disc at z=2.6

M. J. Doherty, J. E. Geach, R. J. Ivison +4

We report the detection of the ground state rotational emission of ammonia, ortho-NH in a gravitationally lensed, intrinsically hyperluminous, star-bu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

The SOFIA FEEDBACK Legacy Survey: Dynamics and mass ejection in the bipolar HII region RCW 36

L. Bonne, N. Schneider, P. García +20

We present [CII] 158 m and [OI] 63 m observations of the bipolar HII region RCW 36 in the Vela C molecular cloud, obtained within the SOFIA legacy project FEEDBACK, which is…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

HyGAL: Characterizing the Galactic ISM with observations of hydrides and other small molecules -- I. Survey description and a first look toward W3(OH), W3 IRS5 and NGC 7538 IRS1

A. M. Jacob, D. A. Neufeld, P. Schilke +22

The HyGAL SOFIA legacy program surveys six hydride molecules -- ArH+, OH+, H2O+, SH, OH, and CH -- and two atomic constituents -- C+ and O -- within the diffuse interstellar medium…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 1 cited

ArH+ and H2O+ absorption towards luminous galaxies

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Friedrich Wyrowski +3

Along several sight lines within the Milky Way ArH+ has been ubiquitously detected with only one detection in extragalactic environments, namely along two sight lines in the red sh…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

The chemistry of chlorine-bearing species in the diffuse interstellar medium, and new SOFIA/GREAT observations of HCl

David A. Neufeld, Helmut Wiesemeyer, Mark J. Wolfire +6

We have revisited the chemistry of chlorine-bearing species in the diffuse interstellar medium with new observations of the HCl molecular ion and new astrochemical models. Usin…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

SOFIA FEEDBACK survey: exploring the dynamics of the stellar wind driven shell of RCW 49

M. Tiwari, R. Karim, M. W. Pound +13

We unveil the stellar wind driven shell of the luminous massive star-forming region of RCW 49 using SOFIA FEEDBACK observations of the [CII] 158 m line. The complementary datase…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

The CH radical at radio wavelengths: Revisiting emission in the 3.3GHz ground state lines

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Helmut Wiesemeyer +1

The intensities of the three widely observed radio-wavelength hyperfine structure (HFS) lines between the Λ-doublet components of the rotational ground state of CH are inconsistent…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Hunting for the elusive methylene radical

A. M. Jacob, K. M. Menten, Y. Gong +4

CH2 transitions between 68 and 71 GHz were first detected toward the Orion-KL and W51 Main SFRs. Given their upper level energies of 225 K, they were thought to arise in dense, hot…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

The magnetic field in the dense photodissociation region of DR 21

Atanu Koley, Nirupam Roy, Karl M. Menten +3

Measuring interstellar magnetic fields is extremely important for understanding their role in different evolutionary stages of interstellar clouds and of star formation. However, d…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

Extending the view of ArH+ chemistry in diffuse clouds

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Friedrich Wyrowski +2

One of the surprises of the Herschel mission was the detection of ArH+ towards the Crab Nebula in emission and in absorption towards strong Galactic background sources. Although th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 36 cited

First detection of 13CH in the interstellar medium

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Helmut Wiesemeyer +3

In recent years, a plethora of high spectral resolution observations of sub-mm and FIR transitions of methylidene (CH), have demonstrated this radical to be a valuable proxy for H2…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Fingerprinting the effects of hyperfine structure on CH and OH far infrared spectra using Wiener filter deconvolution

Arshia M. Jacob, Karl M. Menten, Helmut Wiesemeyer +3

In this paper, we investigate the influence of hyperfine splitting on complex spectral lines, with the aim of evaluating canonical abundances by decomposing their dependence on hyp…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 30 cited

Unveiling the chemistry of interstellar CH: Spectroscopy of the 2 THz ground state line

Helmut Wiesemeyer, Rolf Güsten, Karl M. Menten +6

The methylidyne radical CH is commonly used as a proxy for H in the cold, neutral phase of the interstellar medium. The optical spectroscopy of CH is limited by interstellar ex…