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most citedCrescent-Shaped Molecular Outflow from the Intermediate-mass Protostar DK Cha Revealed by ALMA

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astro-ph.HE2026

Molecular and Atomic Gas Associated with the Gamma Ray Supernova Remnant RCW 103

H. Inoue, Y. Asano, R. G. Bhuvana +15

We present a study of the interstellar molecular and atomic gas associated with the gamma-ray supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 103 using the Mopra CO( = 1-0), Atacama Large Mi…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

ALMA Band 9 CO(6--5) Reveals a Warm Ring Structure Associated with the Embedded Protostar in the Cold Dense Core MC 27/L1521F

Kazuki Tokuda, Mitsuki Omura, Naoto Harada +9

Infall and outflows, coupled with magnetic fields, rapidly structure the gas around newborn protostars. Shocks from interacting components encode the temperature and density distri…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA Observations of Molecular Complexity in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Probing the Star-forming Region N160

Amanda Broadmeadow, Marta Sewiło, Lee Mundy +9

Hot cores are small (0.1 pc), dense (10 cm), and hot (100 K) regions around massive protostars and are one of the main production sites of complex org…

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

Internal 1000 AU-scale Structures of the R CrA Cluster-forming Cloud -- I: Filamentary Structures

Kengo Tachihara, Naofumi Fukaya, Kazuki Tokuda +17

We report on ALMA ACA observations of a high-density region of the Corona Australis cloud forming a young star cluster, and the results of resolving internal structures. In additio…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

Discovery of Asymmetric Spike-like Structures of the 10 au Disk around the Very Low-luminosity Protostar Embedded in the Taurus Dense Core MC 27/L1521F with ALMA

Kazuki Tokuda, Naoto Harada, Mitsuki Omura +10

Recent Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations have revealed an increasing number of compact protostellar disks with radii of less than a few tens of astro…

astro-ph.SR2023

Ring Gap Structure around Class I Protostar WL 17

Ayumu Shoshi, Naoto Harada, Kazuki Tokuda +7

WL 17 is a Class I object and was considered to have a ring-hole structure. We analyzed the structure around WL 17 to investigate the detailed properties of WL 17. We used ALMA arc…

astro-ph.GA2023

An ALMA-resolved view of 7000 au Protostellar Gas Ring around the Class I source CrA-IRS 2 as a possible sign of magnetic flux advection

Kazuki Tokuda, Naofumi Fukaya, Kengo Tachihara +5

Transferring a significant fraction of the magnetic flux from a dense cloud core is essential in the star formation process. A ring-like structure produced by magnetic flux loss ha…

astro-ph.GA2023

Secondary outflow driven by the protostar Ser-emb 15 in Serpens

Asako Sato, Kazuki Tokuda, Masahiro N. Machida +6

We present the detection of a secondary outflow associated with a Class I source, Ser-emb 15, in the Serpens Molecular Cloud. We reveal two pairs of molecular outflows consisting o…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Detection of Higher-Order Millimeter Hydrogen Recombination Lines in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Marta Sewiło, Kazuki Tokuda, Stan E. Kurtz +10

We report the first extragalactic detection of the higher-order millimeter hydrogen recombination lines (). The -, -, and -transitions have been detected toward the…

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★ 22 cited

Crescent-Shaped Molecular Outflow from the Intermediate-mass Protostar DK Cha Revealed by ALMA

Naoto Harada, Kazuki Tokuda, Hayao Yamasaki +6

We report on an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) study of the Class I or II intermediate-mass protostar DK Cha in the Chamaeleon II region. The 12CO (J=2-1) imag…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 3 cited

Twisted magnetic field in star formation processes of L1521 F revealed by submillimeter dual band polarimetry using James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Sakiko Fukaya, Hiroko Shinnaga, Ray S. Furuya +3

Understanding the initial conditions of star formation requires both observational studies and theoretical works taking into account the magnetic field, which plays an important ro…

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.SR2021★ 10 cited

Impact of Magnetic Braking on High-mass Close Binary Formation

Naoto Harada, Shingo Hirano, Masahiro N. Machida +1

Combining numerical simulations and analytical modeling, we investigate whether close binary systems form by the effect of magnetic braking. Using magnetohydrodynamics simulations,…