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most citedThe earliest phases of star formation - A Herschel key project. The thermal structure of low-mass molecular cloud cores

169 citations · 1.1k across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

JWST-SUPER I: New insights into irradiated warm Neptunes atmospheres from MIRI observations of HD 106315 c

A. Dyrek, R. Waters, S. -M. Tsai +17

Sulphur-bearing molecules have recently emerged as powerful tracers of atmospheric photochemistry in exoplanets observed with JWST. In several warm giant planets, SO has been d…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dust production in the harsh environment of Sgr A* - MIRI/JWST observation of the O-rich asymptotic giant branch star IRS~3

F. Peißker, M. García Marín, A. Eckart +18

Studies of the interstellar medium (ISM) have frequently revealed signatures of the dust produced in the envelopes of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, demonstrating a connectio…

astro-ph.EP2026

Spatial distribution of water ice in the protoplanetary silhouette disk d216-0939

J. S. Martin, S. Wolf, A. Potapov +4

The composition of rocky planets depends on the dust in their natal protoplanetary disk (PPD), potentially containing water ice. Crystalline water ice was detected in the PPD d216-…

astro-ph.SR2026

JWST/MIRI Detection of Molecular H Winds from an Edge-on Class II Source HV Tau C

Vinod Chandra Pathak, P. Manoj, Himanshu Tyagi +14

The evolution of protoplanetary disks is regulated by accretion onto the central star and mass loss through jets and winds. While atomic and ionized outflows are commonly observed,…

astro-ph.GA2026

MICONIC: The spatial relationship between star formation and the AGN in Centaurus A revealed by JWST/MIRI

O. C. Jones, M. L. Jones, D. Dicken +21

Centaurus A (Cen A), the nearest active radio galaxy, hosts a warped dust disc formed in a gas-rich merger. We present JWST/MIRI imaging in three filters, F560W, F770W, and F1130W,…

astro-ph.SR2026

The CepA disk-outflow system at <=0.2'' or <=100au resolution

H. Beuther, C. Gieser, V. Aberham +21

Context: Although there has been significant progress, the physical properties and potential fragmentation of accretion disks around high-mass protostars remain poorly constrained.…

astro-ph.SR2026

MINDS survey of silicates in T Tauri disks: Correlation between dust and gas

J. Varga, Th. Henning, L. B. F. M. Waters +20

Context. Silicates are key constituents of planet-forming disks and major building blocks of rocky planets. Mid-infrared spectral features of micron-sized silicate grains trace gra…

astro-ph.SR2026

Protostellar Outflows at the EarliesT Stages (POETS). IX. Magnetohydrodynamic disk winds traced by SO and SO in luminous protostars

L. Moscadelli, H. Beuther, A. Sanna +13

We investigate two massive young stellar objects (YSOs), IRAS21078+5211 and G035.02+0.35, where evidence for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disk winds (DWs) has been obtained at scales…

astro-ph.SR2026

JOYS: A JWST/MIRI survey of the evolution of H winds and jets from low-mass protostars

L. Francis, Ł. Tychoniec, E. F. van Dishoeck +20

Protostellar outflows display wide-angle winds and collimated jets, the magnetocentrifugal launching of which enables accretion onto the protostar. The majority of the outflow mass…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

MICONIC: JWST/MIRI-MRS reveals heavily reprocessed PAH emission in the circum-nuclear disc of Centaurus A

L. Pantoni, M. Baes, L. Decin +23

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are key dust components in galaxies and play a fundamental role in the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their response to AGN f…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIDIS: The identification of deep MIRI-red sources as candidates for extreme Balmer-break and line emitting galaxies at high-z

I. Jermann, G. Brammer, S. Gillman +27

We investigate the detection and nature of 5.6~μm MIRI-red sources in the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS), covering 2.4~arcmin in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. MIDIS is the dee…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Improving Accretion Diagnostics for Young Stellar Objects with Mid-infrared Hydrogen lines from JWST/MIRI

B Shridharan, P Manoj, Vinod Chandra Pathak +10

We present a comprehensive study of mid-infrared neutral hydrogen (H~\textsc{i}) emission lines in 79 nearby (d 200 ) young stars using JWST/MIRI. We aim to identify mid-in…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 20 cited

Evidence for SiO cloud nucleation in the rogue planet PSO J318

P. Mollière, H. Kühnle, E. C. Matthews +25

Silicate clouds are known to significantly impact the spectra of late L-type brown dwarfs, with observable absorption features at ~ 10 micron. JWST has reopened our window to the m…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Detection of CO, CO, and HO in the atmosphere of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b

N. Crouzet, B. Edwards, T. Konings +29

The chemical composition of warm gas giant exoplanet atmospheres (with Teq < 1000 K) is not well known due to the lack of observational constraints. HAT-P-12 b is a warm, sub-Satur…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 39 cited

JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS): overview of program and early results

E. F. van Dishoeck, Ł. Tychoniec, W. R. M. Rocha +34

The embedded phase is a crucial period in the development of a young star. Mid-IR observations, now possible with JWST with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral resolution and sharp…

astro-ph.GA2025

MICONIC: JWST/MIRI MRS reveals a fast ionized gas outflow in the central region of Centaurus A

A. Alonso-Herrero, L. Hermosa Muñoz, A. Labiano +20

We present a kinematical study of the ionized and molecular gas in the central region (~7-14"~100-200pc) of the nearby radio galaxy Cen A. We used JWST/MIRI MRS 5-28m observatio…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 28 cited

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample. Detections and trends in the inner disk gas

A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning +22

Planet-forming disks around brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars (VLMS) are on average less massive and are expected to undergo faster radial solid transport than their higher mass…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMAGAL II. The ALMA evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy. ALMA data processing and pipeline

Á. Sánchez-Monge, C. L. Brogan, T. R. Hunter +53

The ALMAGAL Large Program has observed 1017 high-mass star-forming regions distributed throughout the Galaxy, sampling different evolutionary stages and environmental conditions. I…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMAGAL I. The ALMA evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy. Presentation of the survey and early results

S. Molinari, P. Schilke, C. Battersby +73

Fundamental questions about the physics responsible for fragmenting molecular parsec-scale clumps into cores of ~1000 au are still open, that only a statistically significant inves…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

JOYS: The [D/H] abundance derived from protostellar outflows across the Galactic disk measured with JWST

L. Francis, E. F. van Dishoeck, A. Caratti o Garatti +8

The total deuterium abundance [D/H] in the universe is set by just two processes: the creation of deuterium in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis at an abundance of [D/H]$=2.58\pm0.13\times1…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 22 cited

MICONIC: Dual active galactic nuclei, star formation, and ionised gas outflows in NGC 6240 seen with MIRI/JWST

L. Hermosa Muñoz, A. Alonso-Herrero, A. Labiano +19

As part of the guaranteed time observations program Mid-Infrared Characterization Of Nearby Iconic galaxy Centers (MICONIC), we used the medium-resolution spectrometer (MRS) of the…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 26 cited

Water depletion and 15NH3 in the atmosphere of the coldest brown dwarf observed with JWST/MIRI

H. Kühnle, P. Patapis, P. Mollière +21

With a temperature of K WISE0855 is the coldest brown dwarf observed so far. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) we obtained observations that allow us to charac…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 31 cited

JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). Overview of gaseous molecular emission and absorption in low-mass protostars

M. L. van Gelder, L. Francis, E. F. van Dishoeck +17

The MIRI-MRS instrument onboard JWST allows for probing the molecular gas composition at mid-IR wavelengths at unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. It is important to study th…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 33 cited

JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). HH 211: the textbook case of a protostellar jet and outflow

A. Caratti o Garatti, T. P. Ray, P. J. Kavanagh +22

We use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) (5-28 um), to study the embedded HH 211 flow. We map a 0.95'x0.22' region, covering the full ext…