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most citedA Census of Early Phase High-Mass Star Formation in the Central Molecular Zone

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astro-ph.GA2025

ACES: The Magnetic Field in Large Filaments in the Galactic Center

Dylan M. Paré, Zi-Xuan Feng, Yue Hu +33

The Galactic Center (GC) is an extreme region of the Milky Way that is host to a complex set of thermal and non-thermal structures. In particular, the GC contains high-density gas…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Mapping CO Ice in a Star-Forming Filament in the 3 kpc Arm with JWST

Savannah Gramze, Adam Ginsburg, Nazar Budaiev +14

CO gas emission is a fundamental tool for measuring column density, but in cold, dark clouds, much of the CO is locked away in ice. We present JWST results from observations of a s…

astro-ph.GA2025

JWST's first view of the most vigorously star-forming cloud in the Galactic center -- Sagittarius B2

Nazar Budaiev, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +9

We report JWST NIRCAM and MIRI observations of Sgr B2, one of the most active sites of star formation in the Galaxy. These observations, using 14 filters spanning 1.5 to 25 microns…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Chemical templates of the Central Molecular Zone. Shock and protostellar object signatures under Galactic Center conditions

Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Gijs Vermariën, Serena Viti +21

(Abridged) The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way exhibits extreme conditions, including high gas densities, elevated temperatures, enhanced cosmic-ray ionization rates,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

ALMA observations of massive clouds in the central molecular zone: slim filaments tracing parsec-scale shocks

Kai Yang, Xing Lu, Yichen Zhang +22

The central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy exhibits widespread emission from SiO and various complex organic molecules (COMs), yet the exact origin of such emission is uncertai…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Network of velocity-coherent filaments formed by supersonic turbulence in a very-high-velocity HI cloud

Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Pak-Shing Li +17

The warm neutral medium (WNM) was thought to be subsonically/transonically turbulent, and it lacks a network of intertwined filaments that are commonly seen in both molecular cloud…