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most citedRevealing the physical properties of molecular gas in Orion with a large scale survey in J=2-1 lines of 12CO, 13CO and C18O

132 citations · 286 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Phase Separation of HI in the Draco Nebula: CNM formation Triggered by Colliding WNM Flows

Yuhi Naruse, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Yamato Matsuzuki +3

We investigate the thermal phase structures and kinematics of atomic hydrogen (H I) gas in the Draco nebula to clarify how infalling H I evolves toward cold atomic and molecular cl…

astro-ph.HE2026

ALMA Observations of DEM L241/LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Evidence for the Formation of Cool Molecular Jets Driven by a Microquasar

Yasuo Fukui, Bhuvana G. R., Hidetoshi Sano +17

We present ALMA observations of DEML 241/LMC P3, the most luminous -ray binary consisting of a compact object and an O star, in CO emission. We have found an one-sided jet-like…

astro-ph.GA2026

Observations of DNC and DCO toward the -shaped Filament and Starless Cores in the Orion Molecular Clouds

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Atsushi Nishimura, Hideo Ogawa +25

Although the deuterium fraction is known to be a powerful evolutionary tracer, its variation within individual molecular cloud cores is still poorly understood. The northern …

astro-ph.GA2026

A multi-scale molecular and atomic gas view on the HII region N113 in the Large Magellanic Cloud:Evidence for high-mass star formation triggered by supersonically-colliding HI flows

Rin I. Yamada, Kazuki Tokuda, Yasuo Fukui +15

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) exhibits vigorous high-mass star formation, including the HII regions 30~Dor that is the most active site of star formation in the local group. The…

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★ 3 cited

Extended and Compact Ortho-HD Structures Close to the Moment of Star-Formation: Evidence from ALMA-ACA Observations in Taurus

Kazuki Tokuda, Kenji Furuya, Naofumi Fukaya +8

Observing and characterizing pre- and protostellar cores in the earliest and densest stages of star formation is challenging due to their short timescales and high densities, limit…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Infrared bubble recognition in the Milky Way and beyond using deep learning

Shimpei Nishimoto, Toshikazu Onishi, Atsushi Nishimura +9

We propose a deep learning model that can detect Spitzer bubbles accurately using two-wavelength near-infrared data acquired by the Spitzer Space Telescope and JWST. The model is b…

astro-ph.GA2025

CO Observations of the SMC-N66 Hii Region with ALMA: Properties of Clumps along Filamentary Molecular Clouds and Possible Expansion Motion

Batool Ilyasi, Naslim Neelamkodan, Kazuki Tokuda +4

The star-forming region N66, as a host of the majority of OB stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, provides a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of the triggers of high…

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.GA2024

High-mass star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud triggered by colliding HI flows

K. Tsuge, H. Sano, K. Tachihara +7

The galactic tidal interaction is a possible mechanism to trigger the active star formation in galaxies. The recent analyses using the HI data in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) p…

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.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

Predicting reliable H column density maps from molecular line data using machine learning

Yoshito Shimajiri, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Shinji Fujita +13

The total mass estimate of molecular clouds suffers from the uncertainty in the H-CO conversion factor, the so-called factor, which is used to convert the C…

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★ 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.GA2014★ 132 cited

Revealing the physical properties of molecular gas in Orion with a large scale survey in J=2-1 lines of 12CO, 13CO and C18O

Atsushi Nishimura, Kazuki Tokuda, Kimihiro Kimura +8

We present fully sampled ~3' resolution images of the 12CO(J=2-1), 13CO(J=2-1), and C18O(J=2-1) emission taken with the newly developed 1.85-m mm-submm telescope toward the entire…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 126 cited

Physical Properties of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud

A. Hughes, T. Wong, J. Ott +14

The Magellanic Mopra Assessment (MAGMA) is a high angular resolution CO mapping survey of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the Mopra Tel…