3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Requiem for a belt: A spatial and kinematical reinterpretation of Gould's Belt in light of Gaia
Michelangelo Pantaleoni González, João Alves, Cameren Swiggum +1
We reassess the long-standing idea of Gould's Belt using Gaia DR3 for a sample of young massive stars and nearby young clusters. The structure surrounding the Sun, often interprete…
astro-ph.GA2025
Origin of the IRAS Vela Shell: New Insights from 3D Dust Mapping
Bore Annie Gao, Catherine Zucker, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan +15
The IRAS Vela Shell (IVS) is a structure of enhanced FIR emission located towards the Gum Nebula, a prominent region of emission in the local Milky Way shaped by various…
astro-ph.GA2025
HP2 Survey V. Ophiuchus: Filament formation in a dispersing cloud complex
João Alves, Marco Lombardi, Charles Lada
We search for potential ``birthmarks'' left from the formation of filamentary molecular clouds in the Ophiuchus complex. We use high dynamic-range column density and temperature ma…