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most citedAn Unbiased CO Survey Toward the Northern Region of the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Atacama Compact Array. I. Overview: CO Cloud Distributions

23 citations · 125 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular Gas Structure and Star Formation Diversity in Stephan's Quintet Revealed by ACA CO(1-0) Mapping

Misaki Yamamoto, Fumiya Maeda, Kazuyuki Muraoka +10

We present CO(1-0) mapping across the entire system of Stephan's Quintet, a well-known compact galaxy group, observed by Atacama Compact Array (7\,m array + Total Power) of…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spatially and Dynamically Extended Molecular Gas in Stephan's Quintet Revealed by ALMA CO(1-0) Total Power Mapping

Fumiya Maeda, Shinya Komugi, Kazuyuki Muraoka +15

We present ALMA Total Power CO(1-0) mapping of Stephan's Quintet (SQ), a prototypical compact galaxy group, with a uniform noise level at a spatial scale of ~25 kpc. These observat…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

ALMA 0.1 pc View of Molecular Clouds Associated with High-Mass Protostellar Systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Are Low-Metallicity Clouds Filamentary or Not?

Kazuki Tokuda, Yuri Kunitoshi, Sarolta Zahorecz +13

Filamentary molecular clouds are an essential intermediate stage in the star formation process. To test whether these structures are universal throughout cosmic star formation hist…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

ACA CO(J=2-1) Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. II. Exploring the Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds

Ayu Konishi, Kazuyuki Muraoka, Kazuki Tokuda +12

The evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), the main sites of high-mass star formation, is an essential process to unravel the galaxy evolution. Using a GMC catalogue of M33 fr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

An ALMA Glimpse of Dense Molecular Filaments Associated with High-mass Protostellar Systems in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Kazuki Tokuda, Naoto Harada, Kei E. I. Tanaka +10

Recent millimeter/sub-millimeter facilities have revealed the physical properties of filamentary molecular clouds in relation to high-mass star formation. A uniform survey of the n…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

ACA CO() Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. I. Initial Results and Identification of Molecular Clouds

Kazuyuki Muraoka, Ayu Konishi, Kazuki Tokuda +18

We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m-array observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Giant molecular clouds and their Type classification in M74: Toward understanding star formation and cloud evolution

F. Demachi, Y. Fukui, R. I. Yamada +10

We investigated the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M74 (NGC 628), using data obtained from the PHANGS project. We applied the GMC Types according to the activity of star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

An Unbiased CO Survey Toward the Northern Region of the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Atacama Compact Array. II. CO Cloud Catalog

Takahiro Ohno, Kazuki Tokuda, Ayu Konishi +16

The nature of molecular clouds and their statistical behavior in subsolar metallicity environments are not fully explored yet. We analyzed data from an unbiased CO( = 2-1) surve…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

The First Detection of a Protostellar CO Outflow in the Small Magellanic Cloud with ALMA

Kazuki Tokuda, Sarolta Zahorecz, Yuri Kunitoshi +12

Protostellar outflows are one of the most outstanding features of star formation. Observational studies over the last several decades have successfully demonstrated that outflows a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 20 cited

An ALMA study of the massive molecular clump N159W-North in the Large Magellanic Cloud: A possible gas flow penetrating one of the most massive protocluster systems in the Local Group

Kazuki Tokuda, Taisei Minami, Yasuo Fukui +18

Massive dense clumps in the Large Magellanic Cloud can be an important laboratory to explore the formation of populous clusters. We report multiscale ALMA observations of the N159W…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

An Unbiased CO Survey Toward the Northern Region of the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Atacama Compact Array. I. Overview: CO Cloud Distributions

Kazuki Tokuda, Hiroshi Kondo, Takahiro Ohno +15

We have analyzed the data from a large-scale CO survey toward the northern region of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) obtained with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) stand-alone mode…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

Development of a new wideband heterodyne receiver system for the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope -- Corrugated horn & Optics covering 210-375 GHz band

Yasumasa Yamasaki, Sho Masui, Hideo Ogawa +21

The corrugated horn is a high performance feed often used in radio telescopes. There has been a growing demand for wideband optics and corrugated horns in millimeter and submillime…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 11 cited

Development of a new wideband heterodyne receiver system for the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope -- Receiver development & the first light of simultaneous observation in 230GHz and 345GHz bands with an SIS-mixer with 4-21GHz IF output

Sho Masui, Yasumasa Yamasaki, Hideo Ogawa +22

We have developed a wideband receiver system for simultaneous observations in CO lines of J = 2-1 and J = 3-2 transitions using the Osaka 1.85-m mm-submm telescope. As a frequency…

astro-ph.IM2020

Current status and future plan of Osaka Prefecture University 1.85-m mm-submm telescope project

Atsushi Nishimura, Kazuki Tokuda, Ryohei Harada +25

We report the current status of the 1.85-m mm-submm telescope installed at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (altitude 1400 m) and the future plan. The scientific goal is to reveal th…