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most citedThe James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Legacy Survey of Nearby Star-forming Regions in the Gould Belt

172 citations · 3.6k across the 81 of their papers we have counts for

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83 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Ammonia Fitting of Multiple Velocity Components in High-Mass Star-Forming Regions

T. Withers, S. Sadavoy, M. Chen +19

We perform a multiple velocity component analysis of ammonia (NH) gas from KEYSTONE, a Green Bank Telescope survey covering 11 giant molecular clouds (GMCs) at distances from 0…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Alignment of dense molecular core morphology and velocity gradients with ambient magnetic fields

A. Pandhi, R. K. Friesen, L. Fissel +15

Studies of dense core morphologies and their orientations with respect to gas flows and the local magnetic field have been limited to only a small sample of cores with spectroscopi…

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.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.GA2022★ 7 cited

Velocity-Coherent Substructure in TMC-1: Inflow and Fragmentation

Simon E. T. Smith, Rachel Friesen, Antoine Marchal +11

Filamentary structures have been found nearly ubiquitously in molecular clouds and yet their formation and evolution is still poorly understood. We examine a segment of Taurus Mole…

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★ 13 cited

Turbulence and Accretion: a High-resolution Study of the B5 Filaments

Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, James Di Francesco, Jaime E. Pineda +2

High-resolution observations of the Perseus B5 "core" have previously revealed that this subsonic region actually consists of several filaments that are likely in the process of fo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 35 cited

An Interferometric View of H-MM1. I. Direct Observation of NH3 Depletion

Jaime E. Pineda, Jorma Harju, Paola Caselli +14

Spectral lines of ammonia, NH, are useful probes of the physical conditions in dense molecular cloud cores. In addition to advantages in spectroscopy, ammonia has also been sug…

astro-ph.GA2022

From Bubbles and Filaments to Cores and Disks: Gas Gathering and Growth of Structure Leading to the Formation of Stellar Systems

Jaime E. Pineda, Doris Arzoumanian, Philippe André +8

The study of the development of structures on multiple scales in the cold interstellar medium has experienced rapid expansion in the past decade, on both the observational and the…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 80 cited

The Central 1000 au of a Pre-stellar Core Revealed with ALMA. II. Almost Complete Freeze-out

Paola Caselli, Jaime E. Pineda, Olli Sipilä +18

Pre-stellar cores represent the initial conditions in the process of star and planet formation. Their low temperatures (10 K) allow the formation of thick icy dust mantles, whic…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

B-fields in Star-Forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Magnetic Fields in the Filamentary Structures of Serpens Main

Woojin Kwon, Kate Pattle, Sarah Sadavoy +149

We present 850 m polarimetric observations toward the Serpens Main molecular cloud obtained using the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450m Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in OrionB

A-Ran Lyo, Jongsoo Kim, Sarah Sadavoy +143

We present the results of simultaneous 450 m and 850 m polarization observations toward the massive star forming region NGC 2071IR, a target of the BISTRO (B-fields in Star-F…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

Are massive dense clumps truly sub-virial? A new analysis using Gould Belt ammonia data

Ayushi Singh, Christopher D. Matzner, Rachel K. Friesen +21

Dynamical studies of dense structures within molecular clouds often conclude that the most massive clumps contain too little kinetic energy for virial equilibrium, unless they are…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

A study of 90 GHz dust emissivity on molecular cloud and filament scales

Ian Lowe, Brian Mason, Tanay Bhandarkar +19

Recent observations from the MUSTANG2 instrument on the Green Bank Telescope have revealed evidence of enhanced long-wavelength emission in the dust spectral energy distribution (S…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

Revealing the diverse magnetic field morphologies in Taurus dense cores with sensitive sub-millimeter polarimetry

Chakali Eswaraiah, Di Li, Ray S. Furuya +142

We have obtained sensitive dust continuum polarization observations at 850 m in the B213 region of Taurus using POL-2 on SCUBA-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The Core Mass Function in the Orion Nebula Cluster Region: What Determines the Final Stellar Masses?

Hideaki Takemura, Fumitaka Nakamura, Shuo Kong +29

Applying dendrogram analysis to the CARMA-NRO CO (=1--0) data having an angular resolution of 8", we identified 692 dense cores in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) r…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 53 cited

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS). IV. Observational results and statistical trends

M. Rodríguez-Baras, A. Fuente, P. Riviére-Marichalar +33

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular CloudS (GEMS) is an IRAM 30m Large Program designed to estimate the S, C, N, and O depletions and gas ionization degree, X(e-), in a set…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 25 cited

Transition from Coherent Cores to Surrounding Cloud in L1688

Spandan Choudhury, Jaime E. Pineda, Paola Caselli +8

Stars form in cold dense cores showing subsonic velocity dispersions. The parental molecular clouds display higher temperatures and supersonic velocity dispersions. The transition…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334; BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network

D. Arzoumanian, R. Furuya, T. Hasegawa +145

[Abridged] Filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to studies showing their role in star formation. While the column density and velocity structures of b…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Gas-phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS) III. Unlocking the CS chemistry: the CS+O reaction

N. Bulut, O. Roncero, A. Aguado +36

CS is among the most abundant gas-phase S-bearing molecules in cold dark molecular clouds. It is easily observable with several transitions in the millimeter wavelength range, and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Observations of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101 taken by the BISTRO survey with JCMT-POL-2

Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Pham Ngoc Diep, Harriet Parsons +146

We report the first high spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101, a part of the Auriga-California molecular cloud. The observations were taken with…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 59 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields Associated with a Network of Filaments in NGC 1333

Yasuo Doi, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Ray S. Furuya +135

We present new observations of the active star-formation region NGC 1333 in the Perseus molecular cloud complex from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope B-Fields In Star-forming Regi…