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most citedTesting kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential

42 citations · 123 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

hep-ph2026

Self-interacting dark matter from radiative bound-state-formation feedback

Marcos M. Flores, Kalliopi Petraki, Thomas Pignard

Observations of galactic structure motivate sizable dark-matter self-interactions at low velocities, naturally realized through light force mediators. Such mediators can also make…

astro-ph.GA2026

The atomic multiphase interstellar medium of galaxies in the COLIBRE simulations

Moa Huppenkothen, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye +7

We analyse the neutral ISM of galaxies at redshift z=0 in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations and investigate the conditions under which these two gas phases coexist in a narrow…

astro-ph.GA2026

Milky Way Atlas: A radial-velocity-resolved, three-dimensional map of H I within 1.25 kpc

Lewis McCallum, Laurin Söding, Mareike Berkner +9

We present a velocity-resolved three-dimensional map of local atomic hydrogen (HI) within 1.25 kpc of the Sun, tackling the challenge of converting emission from position-position-…

astro-ph.GA2026

The 10-15 GHz radio continuum survey of the Galactic Plane with SKAO

A. Traficante, C. Mininni, F. Cavallaro +63

Star formation emerges from the complex interplay between gravity, turbulence, magnetic fields, and stellar feedback, all of which vary across spatial scales and Galactic environme…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Multi-phase HI of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies

Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, J. R. Dawson, Narendra Nath Patra +30

Atomic hydrogen (HI) is the dominant baryonic component of the interstellar medium (ISM) in Milky Way-like galaxies and the reservoir from which molecular clouds and stars ultimate…

astro-ph.GA2026

The fragmentation properties of massive star-forming regions in 30Dor-10 at 2000 au resolution

A. Traficante, M. J. Jimenez-Donaire, R. Indebetouw +9

The fragmentation properties of parsec-scales clumps play a fundamental role in shaping the dense gas condensations known as cores, the immediate progenitor of stars. The distribut…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Are supernovae driving turbulence in the solar neighborhood?

Georges Abboudeh, Patrick Hennebelle, Juan D. Soler +9

Turbulence plays an important role in shaping the interstellar medium, and strongly influences star formation. We aim to identify the physical processes capable of sustaining HI tu…

astro-ph.GA2025

How is cold, star-forming gas in galaxies affected by magnetic fields?

Kamran R. J. Bogue, Rowan J. Smith, Robin G. Tress +9

Numerical simulations provide a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of the role of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium of galaxies and in star formation. However…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The Rosetta Stone Project. II. The correlation between star formation efficiency and L/M indicator for the evolutionary stages of star-forming clumps in post-processed radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations

Ngo-Duy Tung, Alessio Traficante, Ugo Lebreuilly +13

Context. The evolution of massive star-forming clumps that are progenitors of high-mass young stellar objects are often classified based on a variety of observational indicators ra…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Rosetta Stone Project. I. A suite of radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations of high-mass star-forming clumps

Ugo Lebreuilly, Alessio Traficante, Alice Nucara +14

Context. Star formation and, in particular, high-mass star formation are key astrophysical processes that are far from being fully understood. Unfortunately, progress in these fiel…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Rosetta Stone project. III. ALMA synthetic observations of fragmentation in high-mass star-forming clumps

Alice Nucara, Alessio Traficante, Ugo Lebreuilly +23

The physical mechanisms that regulate the collapse of high-mass parsec-scale clumps and allow them to form clusters of new stars represent a crucial aspect of star formation. To in…

astro-ph.GA2025

PRIMAGAL: a PRIMAger Galactic Plane Far-IR polarization survey to quantify the magnetic fields' role in the formation and evolution of large star-forming filaments

S. Molinari, J. D. Soler, V. -M. Pelkonen +8

The PRIMAger instrument on board the proposed PRIMA satellite will offer the unprecedented capability to obtain hundreds of square-degree maps in polarised emission at sub-arcminut…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The role of turbulence in setting the phase of the ISM and implications for the star formation rate

Tine Colman, Patrick Hennebelle, Noé Brucy +10

In this work, we explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase ISM. We analyse a suite of stratified box simulations modelling a real…

astro-ph.GA2025

Introducing the Rhea simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies I: Effect of gravitational potential on morphology and star formation

Junia Göller, Philipp Girichidis, Noé Brucy +11

The Milky Way is a complex ecosystem, for which we can obtain detailed observations probing the physical mechanisms determining the interstellar medium. For a detailed comparison w…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The dynamical impact of cosmic rays in the Rhea magnetohydrodynamics simulations

Karin Kjellgren, Philipp Girichidis, Junia Göoller +10

This study explores the dynamical impact of cosmic rays (CRs) in Milky Way-like galaxies using the Rhea simulation suite. Cosmic rays, with their substantial energy density, influe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Measuring Star Formation Rates in the Milky Way from Hi-GAL 70 m Observations

D. Elia, N. J. Evans, J. D. Soler +5

Three methods for computing the total star formation rate of the Milky Way agree well with a reference value of M yr. They are then used to determine t…

astro-ph.GA2024

Local HI Absorption towards the Magellanic Cloud foreground using ASKAP

Hiep Nguyen, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, James Dempsey +21

We present the largest Galactic neutral hydrogen HI absorption survey to date, utilizing the Australian SKA Pathfinder Telescope at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30''. Thi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 42 cited

Testing kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential

Glen H. Hunter, Mattia C. Sormani, Jan P. Beckmann +15

Obtaining reliable distance estimates to gas clouds within the Milky Way is challenging in the absence of certain tracers. The kinematic distance approach has been used as an alter…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Cloud properties across spatial scales in simulations of the interstellar medium

Tine Colman, Noé Brucy, Philipp Girichidis +9

Molecular clouds (MC) are structures of dense gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), that extend from ten to a few hundred parsecs and form the main gas reservoir available for star…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters

The BLAST Observatory Collaboration, Gabriele Coppi, Simon Dicker +21

Sensitive wide-field observations of polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains will allow astronomers to address key outstanding questions about the life cycle of ma…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 37 cited

The Galactic dynamics revealed by the filamentary structure in atomic hydrogen emission

Juan D. Soler, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Sergio Molinari +13

We present a study of the filamentary structure in the atomic hydrogen (HI) emission at the 21 cm wavelength toward the Galactic plane using the observations in the HI4PI survey. U…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

A wind-blown bubble in the Central Molecular Zone cloud G0.253+0.016

J. D. Henshaw, M. R. Krumholz, N. O. Butterfield +16

G0.253+0.016, commonly referred to as "the Brick" and located within the Central Molecular Zone, is one of the densest ( cm) molecular clouds in the Galaxy…