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most citedThe VLA/ALMA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) Survey of Orion Protostars. A Statistical Characterization of Class 0 and I Protostellar Disks

332 citations · 531 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Properties of Hot Molecular Fragments in the Massive Protocluster IRAS 17233-3606

Li Chen, Sheng-Li Qin, Dongting Yang +29

To investigate the physical mechanisms of fragmentation within the hot molecular core of the massive protocluster IRAS 17233-3606 (G351.78-0.54), we carried out a detailed analysis…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evolution of starless cores in massive clumps seen by the ALMA ASHES and QUARKS surveys

Dongting Yang, Hong-li Liu, Sheng-li Qin +28

We present a systematic comparative analysis of 324 starless cores in early-phase infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs; ASHES survey) and evolved-phase infrared-bright clouds (IRBCs; QUARKS…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: Investigating Thermal Feedback of Massive Protostars in Hot Molecular Cores

Dezhao Meng, Tie Liu, Jarken Esimbek +33

We identify a sample of 83 spatially resolved hot molecular cores (HMCs) in the QUARKS survey, aiming at investigating thermal feedback from massive stars. Using CHCN\,(12--11)…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Discovery of Superfine Dusty Fibrils inside Massive Star-forming Clumps

Yan-Kun Zhang, Tie Liu, Wenyu Jiao +35

We report the discovery of more than 320 superfine dusty filamentary structures (fibrils) inside 121 massive star forming clumps that are located in widely different Galactic envir…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA-QUARKS: Few-Thousand-Year Hatching out of "Egg": The Supersonic Breakout of a Hypercompact H II Region from Its Parental Hot Core

Siju Zhang, Guido Garay, Fengwei Xu +19

The kinematic evolution of hypercompact H II (HC H II) regions around young high-mass stars remains poorly understood due to complex interactions with parental environs. We present…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: III. Clump-to-core fragmentation and search for high-mass starless cores

Dongting Yang, Hong-Li Liu, Tie Liu +43

The Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with ALMA-Resolved gas Kinematics and Structures (QUARKS) survey observed 139 infrared-bright (IR-bright) massive proto…

astro-ph.GA2025

The ALMA-ATOMS Survey: Exploring Protostellar Outflows in HCN

Ariful Hoque, Tapas Baug, Lokesh K. Dewangan +25

We present the first systematic study of bipolar outflows using HCN as a tracer in a sample of 146 massive star-forming regions from ALMA-ATOMS survey. Protostellar outflows ar…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Fibers' role in star formation unveiled in an intermediate-mass protocluster region of the Vela D cloud

Dongting Yang, HongLi Liu, Tie Liu +32

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the IRS 17 filament within the intermediate-mass protocluster IRAS 08448-4343 (of ), using ALMA data fro…

astro-ph.GA2024

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions XVII. High-mass star-formation through a large-scale collapse in IRAS 153945358

Swagat R. Das, Manuel Merello, Leonardo Bronfman +23

Hub-filament systems are considered as natural sites for high-mass star formation. Kinematic analysis of the surroundings of hub-filaments is essential to better understand high-ma…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALMA-IMF XII: Point-process mapping of 15 massive protoclusters

P. Dell'Ova, F. Motte, A. Gusdorf +29

A crucial aspect in addressing the challenge of measuring the core mass function, that is pivotal for comprehending the origin of the initial mass function, lies in constraining th…

astro-ph.GA2024

ALMA-IMF XIV: Free-Free Templates Derived from H and Ionized Gas Content in Fifteen Massive Protoclusters

Roberto Galván-Madrid, Daniel J. Díaz-González, Frédérique Motte +25

We use the H recombination line to create templates of the millimeter free-free emission in the ALMA-IMF continuum maps, which allows to separate it from dust emission. This m…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: II. the ACA 1.3 mm continuum source catalog and the assembly of dense gas in massive star-forming clumps

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +30

Leveraging the high resolution, high sensitivity, and wide frequency coverage of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the QUARKS survey, standing for "Querying…

astro-ph.GA2023

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: -- I. Survey description and data reduction

Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Lei Zhu +31

This paper presents an overview of the QUARKS survey, which stands for `Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with ALMA-Resolved gas Kinematics and Structures'.…

astro-ph.GA2023

ALMA-IMF VIII -- Combination of Interferometric Continuum Images with Single-Dish Surveys and Structural Analysis of Six Protoclusters

Daniel J. Díaz-González, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Adam Ginsburg +17

We present the combination of ALMA-IMF and single-dish continuum images from the Mustang-2 Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS90) at 3 millimeters and the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BG…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

A High-Mass Young Star-forming Core Escaping from Its Parental Filament

Zhiyuan Ren, Xi Chen, Tie Liu +17

We studied the unique kinematic properties in massive filament G352.63-1.07 at -AU spatial scale with the dense molecular tracers observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/s…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Discovery of a collimated jet from the low luminosity protostar IRAS 162532429 in a quiescent accretion phase with the JWST

Mayank Narang, Manoj P., Himanshu Tyagi +36

Investigating Protostellar Accretion (IPA) is a JWST Cycle~1 GO program that uses NIRSpec IFU and MIRI MRS to obtain 2.9--28~m spectral cubes of young, deeply embedded protostar…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE): Core Growth, Cluster Contraction, and Primordial Mass Segregation

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +40

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE) aims to investigate the process of mass assembly and its connection to high-m…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 25 cited

Filament rotation in the California L1482 cloud

Rodrigo H. Álvarez-Gutiérrez, Amelia M. Stutz, Chi Y. Law +5

We analyze the gas mass distribution, the gas kinematics, and the young stellar object (YSO) content of the California Molecular Cloud (CMC) L1482 filament. We derive a Gaia DR2 YS…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 332 cited

The VLA/ALMA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) Survey of Orion Protostars. A Statistical Characterization of Class 0 and I Protostellar Disks

John J. Tobin, Patrick Sheehan, S. Thomas Megeath +33

We have conducted a survey of 328 protostars in the Orion molecular clouds with ALMA at 0.87 mm at a resolution of 0.1" (40 au), including observations with the VLA at 9 mm t…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 33 cited

The VLA/ALMA Nascent Disk and Multiplicity (VANDAM) Survey of Orion Protostars I. Identifying and Characterizing the Protostellar Content of the OMC2-FIR4 and OMC2-FIR3 Regions

John J. Tobin, S. Thomas Megeath, Merel van 't Hoff +31

We present ALMA (0.87~mm) and VLA (9~mm) observations toward OMC2-FIR4 and OMC2-FIR3 within the Orion integral-shaped filament that are thought to be the nearest regions of interme…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 97 cited

Formation of massive seed black holes via collisions and accretion

T. C. N. Boekholt, D. R. G. Schleicher, M. Fellhauer +4

Models aiming to explain the formation of massive black hole seeds, and in particular the direct collapse scenario, face substantial difficulties. These are rooted in rather ad hoc…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

Star Formation Under the Outflow: The Discovery of a Non-Thermal Jet from OMC-2 FIR 3 and its Relationship to the Deeply Embedded FIR 4 Protostar

Mayra Osorio, Ana K. Diaz-Rodriguez, Guillem Anglada +14

We carried out multiwavelength (0.7-5 cm), multiepoch (1994-2015) Very Large Array (VLA) observations toward the region enclosing the bright far-IR sources FIR 3 (HOPS 370) and FIR…