3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
The most massive star clusters in molecular clouds: Insights from the integrated cloud-wide initial mass function (ICIMF) theory
J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib
The combination of the high-resolution ALMA, JWST and HST observations provides unprecedented insights into the connection between individual molecular clouds and their internal st…
astro-ph.GA2025
Evolution of molecular clouds on galaxy-cloud scale revealed by gravitational network analysis : High-mass clouds may deplete nearby gas via accretion or merging
J. W. Zhou, Guang-Xing Li
Observations show that molecular gas in spiral galaxies is organized into a network of interconnected systems through the gravitational coupling of multi-scale hub-filament structu…
astro-ph.GA2024
Molecular clouds as hubs in spiral galaxies : gas inflow and evolutionary sequence
J. W. Zhou, Sami Dib, Timothy A. Davis
We decomposed the molecular gas in the spiral galaxy NGC 628 (M74) into multi-scale hub-filament structures using the CO (2-1) line by the dendrogram algorithm. All leaf structures…