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most citedPrevalence of Complex Organic Molecules in Starless and Prestellar Cores within the Taurus Molecular Cloud

82 citations · 464 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Sulphur-bearing molecule survey towards prestellar and starless cores in the Perseus molecular cloud

J. Ferrer Asensio, S. Scibelli, A. Pokorny-Yadav +7

Sulphur is drastically depleted from the gas phase in dense starless and prestellar cores, creating the long-standing "missing sulphur problem". Observations of sulphur-bearing mol…

astro-ph.GA2026

Chemical complexity in feedback from supernova remnants: first detection of PO+ in IC443 and W44

G. Cosentino, F. Priestley, S. Scibelli +1

Supernova remnant (SNR) may shape the physical and chemical properties of star formation. By releasing refractory elements into the gas phase, they inject material of pre-biotic re…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deuteration of Organic Molecules as a Probe of Starless Core and Filament Evolution in Barnard 10

Hanga Andras-Letanovszky, Yancy L. Shirley, Lucille J. Steffes +4

The deuterium fractionation of molecules in starless cores is sensitive to their dynamical histories, which recent magnetohydrodynamical simulations have shown to be extremely vari…

astro-ph.GA2026

Inventories of Rich Carbon-Chain Chemistry in Prestellar and Starless Cores in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

Anissa Pokorny-Yadav, Samantha Scibelli, Judit Ferrer Asensio +3

Carbon-chain molecules serve as an important reservoir of reactive organic matter that will eventually be incorporated into protoplanetary disks, planets, and cometary material. Pr…

astro-ph.GA2026

c-C3H2 deuteration towards prestellar and starless cores in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

J. Ferrer Asensio, S. Scibelli, L. Steffes +6

Deuterium fractionation becomes highly efficient in cold, dense cores where CO is frozen out. Cyclopropenylidene (c-C3H2), an early-formed carbon ring, and its deuterated isotopolo…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Data Release 2

Jaime E. Pineda, Rachel K. Friesen, Erik Rosolowsky +22

We present an overview of the final data release (DR2) from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey (GAS). GAS is a Large Program at the Green Bank Telescope to map all Gould Belt star-formi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Nascent chemical complexity in prestellar core IRAS 16293E: complex organics and deuterated methanol

Samantha Scibelli, Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Paola Caselli +5

Prestellar cores represent early sites of low-mass ( few M) star and planet formation and provide insight into initial chemical conditions of complex organic mole…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

First Detections of PN, PO, and PO+ toward a Shocked Low-mass Starless Core

Samantha Scibelli, Andrés Megías, Izaskun Jiménez-Serra +6

Phosphorus is a key element that plays an essential role in biological processes important for living organisms on Earth. The origin and connection of phosphorus-bearing molecules…

astro-ph.GA2025

NEATH IV: an early onset of complex organic chemistry in molecular clouds

F. D. Priestley, P. C. Clark, S. E. Ragan +6

Complex organic molecules (COMs) are widely detected in protostellar and protoplanetary systems, where they are thought to have been inherited in large part from earlier evolutiona…

astro-ph.SR2024

Molecular Distributions and Abundances in the Binary-Shaped Outflow of V Hya

Mark A. Siebert, Raghvendra Sahai, Samantha Scibelli +1

Binaries are known to play a key role in the mass loss and dynamical environments of evolved stars. Stellar and sub-stellar companion interactions produce complex wind morphologies…

astro-ph.GA2024

Survey of Complex Organic Molecules in Starless and Prestellar Cores in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

Samantha Scibelli, Yancy Shirley, Andrés Megías +1

Cold (10 K) and dense (10 cm) cores of gas and dust within molecular clouds, known as starless and dynamically evolved prestellar cores, are the birthplace…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Alignment of dense molecular core morphology and velocity gradients with ambient magnetic fields

A. Pandhi, R. K. Friesen, L. Fissel +15

Studies of dense core morphologies and their orientations with respect to gas flows and the local magnetic field have been limited to only a small sample of cores with spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

3D Radiative Transfer Modelling and Virial Analysis of Starless Cores in the B10 Region of the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Samantha Scibelli, Yancy Shirley, Anika Schmiedeke +4

Low-mass stars like our Sun begin their evolution within cold (10 K) and dense ( cm) cores of gas and dust. The physical structure of starless cores is best probe…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Velocity-Coherent Substructure in TMC-1: Inflow and Fragmentation

Simon E. T. Smith, Rachel Friesen, Antoine Marchal +11

Filamentary structures have been found nearly ubiquitously in molecular clouds and yet their formation and evolution is still poorly understood. We examine a segment of Taurus Mole…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 8 cited

A Survey of Deuterated Ammonia in the Cepheus Star-Forming Region L1251

Maria Galloway-Sprietsma, Yancy L. Shirley, James Di Francesco +4

Understanding the chemical processes during starless core and prestellar core evolution is an important step in understanding the initial stages of star and disk formation. This pr…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 16 cited

The Rapidly Evolving AGB Star, V Hya: ALMA finds a Multi-Ring Circus with High-Velocity Outflows

R. Sahai, P-S. Huang, S. Scibelli +3

We have observed the mass-losing carbon star V Hya that is apparently transitioning from an AGB star to a bipolar planetary nebula, at an unprecedented angular resolution of ~0".4-…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 26 cited

Methanol Mapping in Cold Cores: Testing Model Predictions

Anna Punanova, Anton Vasyunin, Paola Caselli +5

Chemical models predict that in cold cores gas-phase methanol is expected to be abundant at the outer edge of the CO depletion zone, where CO is actively adsorbed. CO adsorption co…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

Detection of Complex Organic Molecules in Young Starless Core L1521E

Samantha Scibelli, Yancy Shirley, Anton Vasyunin +1

Determining the level of chemical complexity within dense starless and gravitationally bound prestellar cores is crucial for constructing chemical models, which subsequently constr…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 31 cited

A Survey of CH2DOH Towards Starless and Prestellar Cores in the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Hannah E. Ambrose, Yancy L. Shirley, Samantha Scibelli

Recent observations indicate that organic molecules are prevalent towards starless and prestellar cores. Deuteration of these molecules has not been well-studied during the starles…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Relative Alignment between Dense Molecular Cores and Ambient Magnetic Field: The Synergy of Numerical Models and Observations

Che-Yu Chen, Erica A. Behrens, Jasmin E. Washington +26

The role played by magnetic field during star formation is an important topic in astrophysics. We investigate the correlation between the orientation of star-forming cores (as defi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 59 cited

Velocity-coherent Filaments in NGC 1333: Evidence for Accretion Flow?

Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, James Di Francesco, Erik Rosolowsky +11

Recent observations of global velocity gradients across and along molecular filaments have been interpreted as signs of gas accreting onto and along these filaments, potentially fe…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 82 cited

Prevalence of Complex Organic Molecules in Starless and Prestellar Cores within the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Samantha Scibelli, Yancy Shirley

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward dense, collapsing prestellar cores has sparked interest in the fields of astrochemistry and astrobiology, yet the mechanism…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 20 cited

Droplets II: Internal Velocity Structures and Potential Rotational Motions in Pressure-dominated Coherent Structures

Hope How-Huan Chen, Jaime E. Pineda, Stella S. R. Offner +6

We present an analysis of the internal velocity structures of the newly identified sub-0.1 pc coherent structures, droplets, in L1688 and B18. By fitting 2D linear velocity fields…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 7 cited

High-Velocity Bullets from V Hydrae, an AGB Star in Transition: Ejection History and Spatio-Kinematic Modeling

Samantha Scibelli, Raghvendra Sahai, Mark Morris

The carbon star V Hydrae (V Hya) provides new insight into the nature of the launching mechanism of jet-like outflows that are believed to be the cause of the poorly understood tra…