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Star-forming content of the giant molecular filaments in the Milky Way
Miaomiao Zhang, Jouni Kainulainen, Michael Mattern +2
Observations have discovered numerous giant molecular filaments (GMFs) in the Milky Way. However, their role in the Galactic star formation and Galaxy-scale evolution of dense gas…
Histogram of oriented gradients: a technique for the study of molecular cloud formation
J. D. Soler, H. Beuther, M. Rugel +22
We introduce the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), a tool developed for machine vision that we propose as a new metric for the systematic characterization of observations of a…
SEDIGISM: The kinematics of ATLASGAL filaments
M. Mattern, J. Kauffmann, T. Csengeri +13
Analysing the kinematics of filamentary molecular clouds is a crucial step towards understanding their role in the star formation process. Therefore, we study the kinematics of 283…
Structure and Fragmentation of a high line-mass filament: Nessie
Michael Mattern, Jouni Kainulainen, Miaomiao Zhang +1
An increasing number of hundred-parsec scale, high line-mass filaments have been detected in the Galaxy. Their evolutionary path, including fragmentation towards star formation, is…
OH absorption in the first quadrant of the Milky Way as seen by THOR
M. R. Rugel, H. Beuther, S. Bihr +20
The hydroxyl radical (OH) is present in the diffuse molecular and partially atomic phases of the interstellar medium (ISM), but its abundance relative to hydrogen is not clear. We…
Helical Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds? A New Method to Determine the Line-of-Sight Magnetic Field Structure in Molecular Clouds
M. Tahani, R. Plume, J. C. Brown +1
Magnetic fields pervade in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are believed to be important in the process of star formation, yet probing magnetic fields in star formation regions is…