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Supernova origin of galactic turbulence revealed by superbubbles
Fanyi Meng, Chao-Wei Tsai, Jingwen Wu +13
Supernovae (SNe) are among the leading candidates for powering galactic-scale turbulence. SNe drive expanding shells of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) known as superbubbles. Due to t…
Dense Cores in the Vicinity of an HII Region
Ruofei Zhang, Xing Lu, Jingwen Wu +23
Massive stars strongly influence their surroundings through radiative and mechanical feedback, but its effects on dense gas structures at sub-pc scales remain poorly constrained. W…
ALOHA IRDCs Molecular Line Follow-up: I. Gas properties and kinematics
Jinjin Xie, Yaoting Yan, Zhiyuan Ren +109
Infrared Dark Clouds are ideal sites for investigating the initial conditions of massive star and cluster formation. The A Lei Of the Habitat and Assembly of Infrared Dark Clouds (…
Trace the Self-Gravitating Gas Using CO Isotopologues
Linjing Feng, Jingwen Wu, Sihan Jiao +12
Recent studies have shown that the star formation rate (SFR) correlates tightly and linearly with the mass of gravitationally bound gas, which can be delineated from the power-law…
Spatially resolved thermal dust emission in the L1157 outflow reveals grain-driven molecular enrichment
Siyi Feng, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Yang Lu +11
Protostellar outflow shocks reshape local dust properties and molecular chemistry. The L1157 outflow is an archetypal chemically rich shocked region, but the thermal dust associate…
CARPP: Parametric Radiative-Transfer Fitting of Molecular Cores from Dust Continuum Data
Yuchen Xing, Di Li, Nannan Yue +5
The density profiles of dense molecular cores are important indicators of their physical and evolutionary states. Multi-wavelength dust continuum data offers excellent constraints…
Star Formation Drives Production of Low Energy Cosmic Rays
Ningyu Tang, Jiahao Liu, Di Li +18
For over a century, the origin of low-energy cosmic rays (LECRs), the dominant heaters and ionizers of dense interstellar gas, remains elusive owing to solar modulation and uncerta…
A tool of Hierarchical cOre ideNtification and Kinematic property AssIgnment (HONKAI) for Dense Cores
Jiawei Liu, Zhiyuan Ren, Di Li +8
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) contains cold dense gas at the earliest stage of massive star and cluster formation. In studying the IRDCs, a universal and fundamental task is to reso…
Large scale mapping of [CI] and the [CI]-to-CO transition in Ophiuchus molecular cloud
Jifeng Xia, Ningyu Tang, Thomas G. Bisbas +10
Atomic carbon ([CI]) is a key species in the carbon chemistry of the interstellar medium (ISM). Using the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), we conducted a [CI](P$_…
Linear filament and nested cluster evolution tomography (LANCET) I. Capture the evolution of dense gas in 14-parsec filament G316.8
Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Nicola Schneider +12
A dynamic view of mass assembly is essential for understanding the formation of massive stars and clusters. Interpreting evolutionary diagnostics from Galactic-wide surveys, howeve…
MAJORS II: HCO+& HCN Abundances in W40
René Plume, David J. Eden, Malcolm J. Currie +34
We present observations of HCN and HCO J = in the central region of the W40 massive star forming region. The observations were taken as part of a p…
Tails of Gravity: Persistence of Star Formation in the CMZ Environment
Linjing Feng, Sihan Jiao, Fengwei Xu +16
We characterize star-forming gas in six molecular clouds (Sgr B1-off, Sgr B2, Sgr C, the 20 km s and 50 km s molecular clouds, and the Brick) in the Galactic central…
Deep Andromeda JCMT-SCUBA2 Observations. The Submillimeter Maps and Giant Molecular Clouds
Sihan Jiao, Jingwen Wu, Hauyu Baobab Liu +23
We have carried out unprecedentedly deep, nearly confusion-limited JCMT-SCUBA2 mapping observations on the nearest spiral galaxy, M31 (Andromeda). The 850 m image with a 5…
Scientific Objectives of the Xue-shan-mu-chang 15-meter Submillimeter Telescope
XSMT Project Collaboration Group, Yiping Ao, Jin Chang +48
Submillimeter astronomy is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe by revealing cosmic phenomena hidden from optical and near-infrared observations, particularly…
An S-shaped filament formed due to Cloud-Cloud Collision in molecular cloud G178.28-00.61
Tianwei Zhang, Tie Liu, Yuefang Wu +18
We present compelling observational evidence supporting G178.28-00.61 as an early-stage candidate for Cloud-Cloud Collision (CCC), with indications of the formation of an S-shaped…
Why is the Star Formation Rate Proportional to Dense Gas Mass?
Sihan Jiao, Fengwei Xu, Hauyu Baobab Liu +14
One of the most profound empirical laws of star formation is the Gao-Solomon relation, a linear correlation between the star formation rate (SFR) and the dense molecular gas mass.…
Gravitationally Bound Gas Determines Star Formation in the Galaxy
Sihan Jiao, Jingwen Wu, Zhi-Yu Zhang +13
Stars form from molecular gas under complex conditions influenced by multiple competing physical mechanisms, such as gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields. However, accurately i…
Dual-band Unified Exploration of Three CMZ Clouds (DUET). Cloud-wide census of continuum sources showing low spectral indices
Fengwei Xu, Xing Lu, Ke Wang +19
The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is measured to form stars 10 times less efficiently than in the Galactic disk, based on emission from high-mass stars. However, the CMZ…
The HASHTAG project II. Giant molecular cloud properties across the M31 disc
Yikai Deng, Zongnan Li, Zhiyuan Li +17
We present a study of giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using CO(3-2) data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in selected regions acro…
Core mass function in view of fractal and turbulent filaments and fibers
Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Xiaofeng Mai +5
We propose that the core mass function (CMF) can be driven by filament fragmentation. To model a star-forming system of filaments and fibers, we develop a fractal and turbulent tre…
ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of massive Star-forming regions -XX. Probability distribution function of integrated intensity for dense molecular gas tracers
C. Zhang, Tie Liu, Sihan Jiao +16
We report the observations of J=1-0 of HCN, HCO+, H13CO+, and H13CN, HC3N (J=11-10) emission towards 135 massive star-forming clumps, as part of the ATOMS (ALMA Three-millimeter Ob…
JCMT 850 $\micron$ continuum observations of density structures in the G35 molecular complex
Xianjin Shen, Hong-Li Liu, Zhiyuan Ren +32
Filaments are believed to play a key role in high-mass star formation. We present a systematic study of the filaments and their hosting clumps in the G35 molecular complex using JC…
Optical Extinctions of Inter-Arm Molecular Clouds in M31: A Pilot Study for the Upcoming CSST Observations
Cailing Chen, Zheng Zheng, Chao-Wei Tsai +8
Recent sub-millimeter dust thermal emission observations have unveiled a significant number of inter-arm massive molecular clouds in M31.However,the effectiveness of this technique…
INvestigations of massive Filaments ANd sTar formation (INFANT). I. Core Identification and Core Mass Function
Yu Cheng, Xing Lu, Patricio Sanhueza +16
Filamentary structures are ubiquitously found in high-mass star-forming clouds. To investigate the relationship between filaments and star formation, we carry out the INFANT (INves…