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most citedThe star formation history of the Sco-Cen association. Coherent star formation patterns in space and time

98 citations · 230 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The star formation history of Orion is structured and episodic

Alena Rottensteiner, João Alves, Stefan Meingast +6

The propagation of star formation throughout a molecular cloud complex can tell us much about its physical drivers and the importance of environmental versus intrinsic processes. W…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Kinematics of young stellar objects in NGC 2024 based on infrared proper motions

Alena Rottensteiner, Monika G. Petr-Gotzens, Stefan Meingast +6

The most recently formed young stellar objects (YSOs) in active star forming regions are excellent tracers of their parent cloud motion. Their positions and dynamics provide insigh…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Toward the fabric of the Milky Way I. The density of disk streams from a local pc volume

Sebastian Ratzenböck, João Alves, Emily L. Hunt +3

We studied 12 disk streams found in a 250 pc volume in the solar neighborhood, which we define as coeval and comoving stellar structures with aspect ratios greater than 3:1…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The velocity field of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association

S. Hutschenreuter, J. Alves, L. Posch +5

We present a non-parametric reconstruction of the three-dimensional velocity field of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association (Sco- Cen). Using Gaia DR3 astrometry and radial velocit…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The late Miocene Be anomaly and the possibility of a supernova

E. Maconi, J. Alves, J. Großschedl +3

Recent measurements of cosmogenic Be in deep-ocean ferromanganese crusts from the Central and Northern Pacific have revealed an anomalous concentration between 11.5 and 9.0…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

The physical properties of Cluster Chains

Laura Posch, João Alves, Nuria Mirét-Roig +5

We explore the kinematics and star formation history of the Scorpius Centaurus (Sco-Cen) OB association following the initial identification of sequential, linearly aligned chains…

astro-ph.SR2024

New ACV variables discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility survey

B. Bauer-Fasching, K. Bernhard, E. Brändli +8

The manifestation of surface spots on magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars is most commonly explained by the atomic diffusion theory, which requires a calm stellar atmosphere a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation Atlas -- I. Survey overview

Stefan Meingast, João Alves, Hervé Bouy +37

VISIONS is an ESO public survey of five nearby (d < 500 pc) star-forming molecular cloud complexes that are canonically associated with the constellations of Chamaeleon, Corona Aus…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 98 cited

The star formation history of the Sco-Cen association. Coherent star formation patterns in space and time

Sebastian Ratzenböck, Josefa E. Großschedl, João Alves +13

We reconstruct the star formation history of the Sco-Cen OB association using a novel high-resolution age map of the region. We develop an approach to produce robust ages for Sco-C…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 66 cited

Significance Mode Analysis (SigMA) for hierarchical structures. An application to the Sco-Cen OB association

Sebastian Ratzenböck, Josefa E. Großschedl, Torsten Möller +3

We present a new clustering method, Significance Mode Analysis (SigMA), to extract co-spatial and co-moving stellar populations from large-scale surveys such as ESA Gaia. The metho…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 34 cited

The Oph region revisited with Gaia EDR3

Natalie Grasser, Sebastian Ratzenböck, João Alves +10

Context. Young and embedded stellar populations are important probes of the star formation process. Paradoxically, we have a better census of nearby embedded young populations than…