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most citedProbing the initial conditions of high-mass star formation. II. Fragmentation, stability, and chemistry

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

Mapping gravity in stellar nurseries -- establishing the effectiveness of 2D acceleration maps

Zhen-Zhen He, Guang-Xing Li, Andreas Burkert

Gravity is the driving force of star formation. Although gravity is caused by the presence of matter, its role in complex regions is still unsettled. One effective way to study the…

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.HE2023★ 23 cited

Effective Shielding of 10 GeV Cosmic Rays from Dense Molecular Clumps

Rui-zhi Yang, Guang-Xing Li, Emma de Oña Wilhelmi +3

The density of cosmic rays inside molecular clouds determines the ionization rate in the dense cores where stars form. It is also one of the drivers of astrochemistry leading to th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 71 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- XV. Steady Accretion from Global Collapse to Core Feeding in Massive Hub-filament System SDC335

Feng-Wei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +37

We present ALMA Band-3/7 observations towards "the Heart" of a massive hub-filament system (HFS) SDC335, to investigate its fragmentation and accretion. At a resolution of $\sim0.0…

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★ 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★ 15 cited

WISDOM Project XII. Clump properties and turbulence regulated by clump-clump collisions in the dwarf galaxy NGC404

Lijie Liu, Martin Bureau, Guang-Xing Li +6

We present a study of molecular structures (clumps and clouds) in the dwarf galaxy NGC 404 using high-resolution (0.86x0.51 pc^2) Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array ^{12…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Weather Forecast of the Milky Way: Shear and Stellar feedback determine the lives of Galactic-scale filaments

Guang-Xing Li, Ji-Xuan Zhou, Bing-Qiu Chen

The interstellar medium (ISM) is an inseparable part of the Milky Way ecosystem whose evolutionary history remains a challenging question. We trace the evolution of the molecular I…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

A massive Keplerian protostellar disk with flyby-induced spirals in the Central Molecular Zone

Xing Lu, Guang-Xing Li, Qizhou Zhang +1

Accretion disks are an essential component in the paradigm of the formation of low-mass stars. Recent observations further identify disks surrounding low-mass pre-main-sequence sta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Discovery of a coherent, wave-like velocity pattern for the Radcliffe Wave

Guang-Xing Li, Bing-Qiu Chen

Recently studies discovered that part of the Gould Belt belongs to a 2.7 kpc-long {coherent, thin} wave consisting of a chain of clouds, where a damped undulation pattern has been…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Density Exponent Analysis: Gravity-driven steepening of the density profiles of star-forming regions

Guang-Xing Li, Ji-Xuan Zhou

The evolution of molecular interstellar clouds is a complex, multi-scale process. The power-law density exponent describes the steepness of density profiles, and it has been used t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Widespread subsonic turbulence in Ophiuchus North 1

Yan Gong, Shu Liu, Junzhi Wang +4

Supersonic motions are common in molecular clouds. (Sub)sonic turbulence is usually detected toward dense cores and filaments. However, it remains unknown whether (sub)sonic motion…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

The DR21(OH) Trident -- Resolving the Massive Ridge into Three Entangled Fibers As the Initial Condition of Cluster Formation

Yue Cao, Keping Qiu, Qizhou Zhang +1

DR21(OH) ridge, the central part of a high-mass star and cluster forming hub-filament system, is resolved spatially and kinematically into three nearly parallel fibers (f1, f2, and…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

Kinematics of the molecular interstellar medium probed by Gaia: steep velocity dispersion-size relation, isotropic turbulence, and location-dependent energy dissipation

Ji-Xuan Zhou, Guang-Xing Li, Bing-Qiu Chen

The evolution of the molecular interstellar medium is controlled by processes such as turbulence, gravity, stellar feedback, and Galactic shear. AL a part of the ISM-6D https://gxl…

astro-ph.GA2021

Network of Star Formation: Fragmentation controlled by scale-dependent turbulent pressure and accretion onto the massive cores revealed in the Cygnus-X GMC complex

Guang-Xing Li, Yue Cao, Keping Qiu

Molecular clouds have complex density structures produced by processes including turbulence and gravity. We propose a triangulation-based method to dissect the density structure of…

astro-ph.GA2021

Evolutions of CHCN abundance in molecular clumps

Zhen-Zhen He, Guang-Xing Li, Chao Zhang

To investigate the effects of massive star evolution on surrounding molecules, we select 9 massive clumps previously observed with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescop…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Radio Recombination Line Observations at GHz with FAST

Chuan-Peng Zhang, Jin-Long Xu, Guang-Xing Li +3

HII regions made of gas ionized by radiations from young massive stars, are widely distributed in the Milky Way. They are tracers for star formation, and their distributions are co…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

Molecular contrails -- triggered contraction by passages of massive objects through molecular clouds

Guang-Xing Li, Xun Shi

We study the effects of passages of compact objects such as stars, star clusters, and black holes through molecular clouds, and propose that the gravitational interaction between t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 21 cited

DR 21 South Filament: a Parsec-sized Dense Gas Accretion Flow onto the DR 21 Massive Young Cluster

Bo Hu, Keping Qiu, Yue Cao +8

DR21 south filament (DR21SF) is a unique component of the giant network of filamentary molecular clouds in the north region of Cygnus X complex. Unlike the highly fragmented and st…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Probing the initial conditions of high-mass star formation -- IV. Gas dynamics and NHD chemistry in high-mass precluster and protocluster clumps

Chuan-Peng Zhang, Guang-Xing Li, Thushara Pillai +4

The initial stage of star formation is a complex area study because of its high density and low temperature. Under such conditions, many molecules become depleted from the gas phas…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Edge collapse and subsequent longitudinal accretion in Filament S242

Lixia Yuan, Guang-Xing Li, Ming Zhu +7

Filament S242 is 25 pc long with massive clumps and YSO clusters concentrated in its end regions; it is considered a good example of edge collapse. We mapped this filament in the $…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 9 cited

A mean density of for Central Molecular Zone clumps -- Evidences for shear-enabled pressure equilibrium in the Galactic Center

Guang-Xing Li, Chuan-Peng Zhang

We carry out a systematic study of the density structure of gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) in the Galactic center by extracting clumps from the APEX Telescope Large Area S…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 11 cited

A New Luminous blue variable in the outskirt of the Andromeda Galaxy

Yang Huang, Huaiwei Zhang, Chun Wang +8

The hot massive luminous blue variables (LBVs) represent an important evolutionary phase of massive stars. Here, we report the discovery of a new LBV -- LAMOST J0037+4016 in the di…