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20202026
most citedC18O, 13CO, and 12CO abundances and excitation temperatures in the Orion B molecular cloud: An analysis of the precision achievable when modeling spectral line within the Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium approximation

42 citations · 83 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

stat.ME2026

A Hierarchical Likelihood Model for Non-linear Inverse Problems under Additive and Multiplicative Noise

Nicolas Goeman, Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin, Pierre Chainais

Ill-posed inverse problems are encountered in numerous applications, possibly characterized by a highly non-linear forward model, both additive and multiplicative sources of noise,…

astro-ph.GA2026

Chemical diversity of dense cores in Orion B: The role of the environment

Helena J. Mazurek, Maryvonne Gerin, Pierre Gratier +26

Prestellar cores are the sites of the earliest stages of star formation. Dust continuum observations are often used to identify and characterize their properties yet only a small f…

stat.ME2025

A Distributed Plug-and-Play MCMC Algorithm for High-Dimensional Inverse Problems

Maxime Bouton, Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin, Audrey Repetti +1

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are standard approaches to solve imaging inverse problems and quantify estimation uncertainties, a key requirement in absence of ground-t…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Tracers of the ionization fraction in dense and translucent molecular gas: II. Using mm observations to constrain ionization fraction across Orion B

Ivana Bešlić, Maryvonne Gerin, Viviana V. Guzmán +28

The ionization fraction () is a crucial parameter of interstellar gas, yet estimating it requires deep knowledge of molecular gas chemistry…

eess.SP2025

Time and covariance smoothing for restoration of bivariate signals

Yusuf Yigit Pilavci, Pierre Palud, Julien Flamant +3

In many applications and physical phenomena, bivariate signals are polarized, i.e. they trace an elliptical trajectory over time when viewed in the 2D planes of their two component…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Beetroots: spatially-regularized Bayesian inference of physical parameter maps -- Application to Orion

Pierre Palud, Emeric Bron, Pierre Chainais +28

The current generation of millimeter receivers is able to produce cubes of 800 000 pixels by 200 000 frequency channels to cover several square degrees over the 3 mm atmospheric wi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Estimating the dense gas mass of molecular clouds using spatially unresolved 3 mm line observations

Antoine Zakardjian, Annie Hughes, Jérôme Pety +28

We aim to develop a new method to infer the sub-beam probability density function (PDF) of H2 column densities and the dense gas mass within molecular clouds using spatially unreso…

eess.SP2025

Denoising bivariate signals via smoothing and polarization priors

Yusuf Yigit Pilavci, Jérémie Boulanger, Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin +1

We propose two formulations to leverage the geometric properties of bivariate signals for dealing with the denoising problem. In doing so, we use the instantaneous Stokes parameter…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Toward a robust physical and chemical characterization of heterogeneous lines of sight: The case of the Horsehead nebula

Léontine Ségal, Antoine Roueff, Jérôme Pety +28

Dense cold molecular cores/filaments are surrounded by an envelope of translucent gas. Some of the low-J emission lines of CO and HCO isotopologues are more sensitive to the co…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Quantifying the informativity of emission lines to infer physical conditions in giant molecular clouds. I. Application to model predictions

Lucas Einig, Pierre Palud, Antoine Roueff +29

Observations of ionic, atomic, or molecular lines are performed to improve our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the potential of a line to constrain the phy…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Process-constrained batch Bayesian approaches for yield optimization in multi-reactor systems

Markus Grimm, Sébastien Paul, Pierre Chainais

The optimization of yields in multi-reactor systems, which are advanced tools in heterogeneous catalysis research, presents a significant challenge due to hierarchical technical co…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

HCN emission from translucent gas and UV-illuminated cloud edges revealed by wide-field IRAM 30m maps of Orion B GMC: Revisiting its role as tracer of the dense gas reservoir for star formation

M. G. Santa-Maria, J. R. Goicoechea, J. Pety +28

We present 5 deg^2 (~250 pc^2) HCN, HNC, HCO+, and CO J=1-0 maps of the Orion B GMC, complemented with existing wide-field [CI] 492 GHz maps, as well as new pointed observations of…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 42 cited

C18O, 13CO, and 12CO abundances and excitation temperatures in the Orion B molecular cloud: An analysis of the precision achievable when modeling spectral line within the Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium approximation

Antoine Roueff, Maryvonne Gerin, Pierre Gratier +23

CO isotopologue transitions are routinely observed in molecular clouds to probe the column density of the gas, the elemental ratios of carbon and oxygen, and to trace the kinematic…