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20142025
most citedFirst results from BISTRO -- a SCUBA-2 polarimeter survey of the Gould Belt

134 citations · 2.2k across the 74 of their papers we have counts for

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72 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Detection of an Explosive Outflow in G34.26+0.15

Namitha Issac, Xing Lu, Tie Liu +6

This paper reports on the detection of a likely explosive outflow in the high-mass star-forming complex G34.26+0.15, adding to the small number (six) of explosive outflows detected…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Network of velocity-coherent filaments formed by supersonic turbulence in a very-high-velocity HI cloud

Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Pak-Shing Li +17

The warm neutral medium (WNM) was thought to be subsonically/transonically turbulent, and it lacks a network of intertwined filaments that are commonly seen in both molecular cloud…

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

JCMT 850 $\micron$ continuum observations of density structures in the G35 molecular complex

Xianjin Shen, Hong-Li Liu, Zhiyuan Ren +32

Filaments are believed to play a key role in high-mass star formation. We present a systematic study of the filaments and their hosting clumps in the G35 molecular complex using JC…

astro-ph.GA2024

Relative Alignments Between Magnetic Fields, Velocity Gradients, and Dust Emission Gradients in NGC 1333

Michael Chun-Yuan Chen, Laura M. Fissel, Sarah I. Sadavoy +23

Magnetic fields play an important role in shaping and regulating star formation in molecular clouds. Here, we present one of the first studies examining the relative orientations b…

astro-ph.GA2024

Cloud-cloud collision and cluster formation in the W5-NW complex

Namitha Issac, Anindya Saha, Saanika Choudhary +5

We present a detailed structural and gas kinematic study of the star-forming complex W5-NW. A cloud-cloud collision scenario unravels with evidences of collision induced star and c…

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.GA2023

ALMA High-resolution Spectral Survey of Thioformaldehyde (H2CS) Towards Massive Protoclusters

Li Chen, Sheng-Li Qin, Tie Liu +12

Investigating the temperature and density structures of gas in massive protoclusters is crucial for understanding the chemical properties therein. In this study, we present observa…

astro-ph.GA2023

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: -- I. Survey description and data reduction

Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Lei Zhu +31

This paper presents an overview of the QUARKS survey, which stands for `Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with ALMA-Resolved gas Kinematics and Structures'.…

astro-ph.GA2023

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): Discovery of an extremely dense and compact object embedded in the prestellar core G208.68-19.92-N2

Naomi Hirano, Dipen Sahu, Sheng-Yaun Liu +19

The internal structure of the prestellar core G208.68-19.02-N2 (G208-N2) in the Orion Molecular Cloud 3 (OMC-3) region has been studied with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillime…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE): Core Growth, Cluster Contraction, and Primordial Mass Segregation

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +40

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE) aims to investigate the process of mass assembly and its connection to high-m…

astro-ph.GA2023

Investigating a Global Collapsing Hub-Filament Cloud G326.611+0.811

Yu-Xin He, Hong-Li Liu, Xin-Di Tang +8

We present the dynamics study toward the G326.611+0.811 (G326) hub-filament-system (HFS) cloud using the new APEX observations of both CO and CO (J = 2-1). The G326 H…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 43 cited

Direct observational evidence of the multi-scale, dynamical mass accretion toward a high-mass star forming hub-filament system

Dongting Yang, Hong-Li Liu, Anandmayee Tej +28

There is growing evidence that high-mass star formation and hub-filament systems (HFS) are intricately linked. The gas kinematics along the filaments and the forming high-mass star…

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.GA2023★ 55 cited

Evidence of high-mass star formation through multi-scale mass accretion in hub-filament-system clouds

Hong-Li Liu, Anandmayee Tej, Tie Liu +30

We present a statistical study of a sample of 17 hub-filament-system (HFS) clouds of high-mass star formation using high-angular resolution (1-2 arcsecond) ALMA 1.3mm and 3mm…

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★ 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★ 15 cited

Formation of hub-filament structure triggered by cloud-cloud collision in W33 complex

Jian-Wen Zhou, Shanghuo Li, Hong-Li Liu +6

Hub-filament systems are suggested to be birth cradles of high-mass stars and clusters, but the formation of hub-filament structure is still unclear. Using the survey data FUGIN $^…

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★ 30 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- XII: Fragmentation and multi-scale gas kinematics in protoclusters G12.42+0.50 and G19.88-0.53

Anindya Saha, Anandmayee Tej, Hong-Li Liu +15

We present new continuum and molecular line data from the ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions (ATOMS) survey for the two protoclusters, G12.42+0.50 a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 86 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- XI. From inflow to infall in hub-filament systems

Jian-Wen Zhou, Tie Liu, Neal J. Evans +37

We investigate the presence of hub-filament systems in a large sample of 146 active proto-clusters, using HCO J=1-0 molecular line data obtained from the ATOMS survey.…