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most citedThe Formation and Destruction of Molecular Clouds and Galactic Star Formation

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59 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Dual-Wavelength Constraints on Size-Dependent Grain Alignment in Star-Forming Regions

Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +65

We compared 450 and 850 m POL-2 observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at resolution. The median absolute difference in polarization angle between bands is…

astro-ph.GA2026

B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Technical Foundations for Quantitative 450/850 m JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2 Polarimetry

Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +59

We present five technical validations of SCUBA-2/POL-2 polarimetry on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at 450 and 850 m, using 174 archival fields in 69 molecular cloud regions…

astro-ph.GA2026

Evolution of compressed clouds formed by filament coalescence. I. Oblique collisions

Raiga Kashiwagi, Kazunari Iwasaki, Kohji Tomisaka +1

Stars are thought to form predominantly within filamentary molecular clouds. Recent studies have suggested that active star formation, including the formation of stellar clusters a…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hub Formation and Filament-Filament Collision: An Analytical Model

Kohji Tomisaka, Raiga Kashiwagi, Kazunari Iwasaki

Filaments are ubiquitous throughout the Galaxy. Massive star formation is often observed in hub-filament systems, where multiple filaments appear to be interconnected and merging.…

astro-ph.GA2026

H Ortho-Para Spin Conversion on Inhomogeneous Grain Surfaces. II. impact of the rotational energy difference between adsorbed ortho-H and para-H and implication to deuterium fractionation chemistry

Kenji Furuya, Toshiki Sugimoto, Kazunari Iwasaki +2

We investigate how the H ortho-to-para ratio (OPR) and dueterium fractionation in star-forming regions are affected by nuclear spin conversion (NSC) on dust grains. Particular…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

A Tale of Three: Magnetic Fields along the Orion Integral-Shaped Filament as Revealed by JCMT BISTRO survey

Jintai Wu, Keping Qiu, Frederick Poidevin +152

As part of the BISTRO survey, we present JCMT 850 m polarimetric observations towards the Orion Integral-Shaped Filament (ISF) that covers three portions known as OMC-1, OMC-2,…

astro-ph.GA2024

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Fields of the IC 348 Star-forming Region

Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Kate Pattle +150

We present 850 m polarization observations of the IC 348 star-forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observation (BISTRO) s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Instability and Evolution of Shocked Clouds Formed by Orthogonal Collisions between Magnetized Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Raiga Kashiwagi, Kazunari Iwasaki, Kohji Tomisaka

Filamentary molecular clouds are recognized as primary sites for the formation of stars. Specifically, regions characterized by the overlapping point of multiple filaments, known a…

astro-ph.SR2024

Filamentary Network and Magnetic Field Structures Revealed with BISTRO in the High-Mass Star-Forming Region NGC2264 : Global Properties and Local Magnetogravitational Configurations

Jia-Wei Wang, Patrick M. Koch, Seamus D. Clarke +154

We report 850 m continuum polarization observations toward the filamentary high-mass star-forming region NGC 2264, taken as part of the B-fields In STar forming Regions Observat…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 18 cited

Dynamics Near the Inner Dead-Zone Edges in a Proprotoplanetary Disk

Kazunari Iwasaki, Kengo Tomida, Shinsuke Takasao +2

We perform three-dimensional global non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a protoplanetary disk containing the inner dead-zone edge. We take into account realistic diffusion…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Metallicity Dependence of Molecular Cloud Hierarchical Structure at Early Evolutionary Stages

Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Kazunari Iwasaki, Kengo Tomida +3

The formation of molecular clouds out of HI gas is the first step toward star formation. Its metallicity dependence plays a key role to determine star formation through the cosmic…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Simulation of Head-on Collisions Between Filamentary Molecular Clouds Threaded by a Lateral Magnetic Field and Subsequent Evolution

Raiga Kashiwagi, Kazunari Iwasaki, Kohji Tomisaka

Filamentary molecular clouds are regarded as the place where newborn stars are formed. In particular, a hub region, a place where it appears as if several filaments are colliding,…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 27 cited

Primordial or Secondary? Testing models of debris disk gas with ALMA

Gianni Cataldi, Yuri Aikawa, Kazunari Iwasaki +13

The origin and evolution of gas in debris disks is still not well understood. Secondary gas production from cometary material or a primordial origin have been proposed. So far, obs…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Studying the Complex Magnetic Field of L43

Janik Karoly, Derek Ward-Thompson, Kate Pattle +155

We present observations of polarized dust emission at 850 m from the L43 molecular cloud which sits in the Ophiuchus cloud complex. The data were taken using SCUBA-2/POL-2 on th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 49 cited

Reducing the uncertainty on the Hubble constant up to 35\% with an improved statistical analysis: different best-fit likelihoods for Supernovae Ia, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Quasars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Giada Bargiacchi, Małgorzata Bogdan +5

Cosmological models and their parameters are widely debated, especially about whether the current discrepancy between the values of the Hubble constant, , obtained by type I…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

Insights on the Sun birth environment in the context of star-cluster formation in hub-filament systems

Doris Arzoumanian, Sota Arakawa, Masato I. N. Kobayashi +7

Cylindrical molecular filaments are observed to be the main sites of Sun-like star formation, while massive stars form in dense hubs, at the junction of multiple filaments. The rol…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

A Constraint on the Amount of Hydrogen from the CO Chemistry in Debris Disks

Kazunari Iwasaki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Aya E. Higuchi +1

The faint CO gases in debris disks are easily dissolved into C by UV irradiation, while CO can be reformed via reactions with hydrogen. The abundance ratio of C/CO could thus be a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

First BISTRO observations of the dark cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: the role of the magnetic field in the earliest stages of low-mass star formation

Derek Ward-Thompson, Janik Karoly, Kate Pattle +155

We present BISTRO Survey 850 μm dust emission polarisation observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the JCMT. We observe a roughly triangular n…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

Mehrnoosh Tahani, Pierre Bastien, Ray S. Furuya +142

We study the HII regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the sub-millimeter and taken as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: Magnetic Fields of the Massive DR21 Filament

Tao-Chung Ching, Keping Qiu, Di Li +154

We present 850 m dust polarization observations of the massive DR21 filament from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter a…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 47 cited

Three-dimensional Simulations of Magnetospheric Accretion in a T Tauri Star: Accretion and Wind Structures Just Around Star

Shinsuke Takasao, Kengo Tomida, Kazunari Iwasaki +1

We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetospheric accretion in a T Tauri star to study the accretion and wind structures in the close vicinity of the s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: A Spiral Magnetic Field in a Hub-filament Structure, Monoceros R2

Jihye Hwang, Jongsoo Kim, Kate Pattle +157

We present and analyze observations of polarized dust emission at 850 m towards the central 1 pc 1 pc hub-filament structure of Monoceros R2 (Mon R2). The data are obta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Universal Properties of Dense Clumps in Magnetized Molecular Clouds Formed through Shock Compression of Two-phase Atomic Gases

Kazunari Iwasaki, Kengo Tomida

We investigate the formation of molecular clouds from atomic gas by using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations,including non-equilibrium chemical reactions, heating/…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

Nature of supersonic turbulence and density distribution function in the multiphase interstellar medium

Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kengo Tomida +2

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio betw…