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most citedThere are no starless massive proto-clusters in the first quadrant of the Galaxy

86 citations · 271 across the 52 of their papers we have counts for

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59 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Chemical Demographics of Star-forming Regions

Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Timea Csengeri, Maria Teresa Beltrán +35

Our understanding of complex organic chemistry during the formation of stars and planets is shaped by a handful of cherry-picked sources with bright molecular emission lines. This…

astro-ph.IM2026

Star Formation across the Galaxy

Alvaro Sanchez-Monge, Henrik Beuther, Maryvonne Gerin +41

Star formation is both a multi-scale and highly dynamic process. It is regulated by the combination of gravity, turbulence, feedback and magnetic fields, which connect more than si…

astro-ph.IM2026

Frontiers of chemical complexity in the interstellar medium: unveiling the cosmic origins of life

Víctor M. Rivilla, Miguel Sanz-Novo, Maite Beltrán +33

The interstellar medium (ISM) contains a rich molecular inventory that provides a unique window into the chemistry operating during star and planet formation and its connection to…

astro-ph.IM2026

The Birth and Early Feedback of Massive Star Clusters Across the Local Universe

Jiayi Sun, Rebecca C. Levy, Cecilia Bacchini +11

Young massive star clusters (YMCs; ) represent a distinct, extreme mode of star formation and the closest present-day analogues of the environments in wh…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Novel Approach to 3D Dust Mapping of the Central Molecular Zone

Arianna Vasini, Mattia C. Sormani, Jason L. Sanders +12

The 3D distribution of dust and gas in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is key to understanding gas inflows toward the Galactic Centre (GC), the process of star formati…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VIII: A Survey of Compact, High-Velocity Features Observed in CS(2-1)

Dani R. Lipman, Jakub Poznanski, Savannah R. Gramze +46

The extreme kinematics of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) are influenced by processes such as dynamical shearing, cloud collisions, and stellar feedback. These events…

astro-ph.GA2026

EWOCS-IX: JWST/NIRCam observations of Westerlund 2 - Identification of candidate substellar members

V. Almendros-Abad, M. G. Guarcello, K. Muzic +26

[Abridged] Investigating substellar populations in young massive clusters offers crucial insights into the formation of brown dwarfs (BDs) and the role of environmental conditions…

astro-ph.GA2026

ACES VII. Compact Continuum Source Catalog of the Central Molecular Zone

Jennifer Wallace, Cara Battersby, Nazar Budaiev +58

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides in the inner few hundred parsecs of our Galaxy, and despite being the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Milky Way, it has a r…

astro-ph.GA2026

Electron temperature and emission measure of HII regions in the central molecular zone (CMZ) from H40 αrecombination line and continuum emissions by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey - ACES -

Yoshiaki Sofue, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker +40

Star formation activity in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) directly manifests itself as radio continuum free-free emission (Bremsstrahlung) and radio recombination line emission f…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dust Seeding Molecules in a Massive Protostar -- Detection of TiO in Orion Source I

Ziwei E. Zhang, Nami Sakai, Marcelino Agundez +16

We report the first detection of TiO in star-forming regions based on Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of Orion Source I, a well-characterized massive prot…

astro-ph.GA2026

IRIS: Deciphering Spectral-Line Imagery of the Galactic Center by Machine-Learning on Simulations

B. L. DuBois, Cara Battersby, Jonah C. Baade +11

In understanding the 3D structure of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), we are limited by our edge-on perspective. Towards addressing this problem, we introduce Imagery…

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulations of gas inflow in the Milky Way I. Stellar-Feedback-Regulated Transport from the Central Molecular Zone to the Circumnuclear disk

Zi-Xuan Feng, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress +18

We perform hydrodynamical simulations with radially varying resolution to study the effects of stellar feedback on the radial inflow of gas from the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ, $R…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Keplerian disk, envelope, and streamers surrounding an early O-type protostar in the Sagittarius C cloud of the Central Molecular Zone

Jixiang Weng, Xing Lu, Yu Cheng +22

Disk-mediated accretion is central to theories of massive star formation, setting the initial conditions for their evolution. Yet observations of Keplerian disks around early O-typ…

astro-ph.GA2026

3D CMZ V: A new orbital model of our Galaxy's Center, informed by data across the electromagnetic spectrum

Dani R. Lipman, Cara Battersby, Daniel Walker +9

The 3D structure of The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) informs our understanding of star formation cycles, black hole accretion, and the evolution of galactic nuclei. How…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) V: CS(2-1), SO(2_3-1_2), CH3CHO(5_1,4-4_1,3), HC3N(11-10), and H40a lines data

Pei-Ying Hsieh, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +59

We present data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which provides broad spectral-line and 3 mm continuum coverage of the Central Molecula…

astro-ph.GA2026

Reconciling 3D Models for the Central 10 parsecs of the Milky Way

Elisabeth A. C. Mills, Natalie O. Butterfield, Hauyu Baobab Liu +13

The construction of an accurate 3D model of the Milky Way center is necessary to understand inflow processes that drive its overall evolution, and to compare our Galactic nucleus t…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows

Xing Lu, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +61

We release the intermediate-width spectral window data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which covers SiO(2-1), SO(2_2-1_1), H13CO+(1-0)…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview

Steven N. Longmore, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes +95

The mass flows and energy cycles within the inner regions of galaxies exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the galaxy population. The centre of the Milky Way is the only…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO data

Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +64

The ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) large program has observed the inner ~ 200 pc of the Milky Way at 3 mm (Band 3) using ALMA's 12m, 7m, and Total Power arra…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) II: 3mm continuum images

Adam Ginsburg, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley T. Barnes +69

The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, h…

astro-ph.GA2026

Digging into the Interior of Hot Cores with ALMA (DIHCA). VI. The Formation of Low-mass Multiple Systems in High-mass Cluster-forming Regions

Qiuyi Luo, Patricio Sanhueza, Stella S. R. Offner +14

Most stars form in multiple systems, with profound implications in numerous astronomical phenomena intrinsically linked to multiplicity. However, our knowledge about the process on…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) VI: ALMA Large Program Reveals a Highly Filamentary Central Molecular Zone

Cara Battersby, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Dani Lipman +44

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way is the way station that primarily controls how much gas flows from the disk of the Galaxy towards the central nucleus. While this…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 5 cited

Digging into the Interior of Hot Cores with ALMA (DIHCA). VII. Disk candidates around high-mass stars and evidence of anisotropic infall

Fernando A. Olguin, Patricio Sanhueza, Yoko Oya +19

We study the kinematics of condensations in 30 fields forming high-mass stars with ALMA at a high-resolution of ~0.08'' on average (~230 au). The presence of disks is important for…

astro-ph.GA2026

Unveiling the 3D structure of the central molecular zone from stellar kinematics and photometry: The 50 and 20 km/s clouds

Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Ashley T. Barnes, Jonathan D. Henshaw +25

The central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the Galactic centre, is the largest reservoir of dense molecular gas in the Galaxy. Despite its relative proximity, the 3D structure o…