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most citedDust 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

84 citations · 908 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Habitability using Biogenic Precursors: Formaldehyde in Millimeter Molecular Clouds of the Inner Galaxy

Nursyazela Badrina Baharin, Affan Adly Nazri, Zulfazli Rosli +5

We present a comprehensive study of formaldehyde (H2CO) absorption and radio recombination line (H110a) emission in 215 molecular clouds from the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGP…

astro-ph.GA2025

Evidence for Core-Core Collision in Barnard 68

Dalei Li, Christian Henkel, Alexander Kraus +10

The prestellar core Barnard 68 (B68) is a prototypical source to study the initial conditions and chemical processes of star formation. A previous numerical simulation suggested th…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Cloud-cloud collision and star formation in G013.313+0.193

Dilda Berdikhan, Jarken Esimbek, Christian Henkel +18

We study the G013.313+0.193 G013.313 region, a complex environment characterized by molecular cloud interactions indicative of cloud-cloud collision (CCC). Observations of the NH3(…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Impact of Expanding HII Regions on Filament G37:Curved Magnetic Field and Multiple Direction Material Flows

Mengke Zhao, Xindi Tang, Keping Qiu +2

Filament G37 exhibits a distinctive "caterpillar" shape, characterized by two semicircular structures within its 40\,pc-long body, providing an ideal target to investigate the form…

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

Chemical models of interstellar glycine and adenine precursor aminoacetonitrile (NH2CH2CN)

Xia Zhang, Donghui Quan, Xiaohu Li +4

Aminoacetonitrile (AAN), also known as glycinenitrile, has been suggested as a possible precursor of glycine and adenine in the interstellar medium. Here we present the chemical mo…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

Kinematics and star formation of hub-filament systems in W49A

WenJun Zhang, Jianjun Zhou, Jarken Esimbek +11

W49A is a prominent giant molecular cloud (GMC) that exhibits strong star formation activities, yet its structural and kinematic properties remain uncertain. Our study aims to inve…

astro-ph.EP2024

Investigating Sulfur Chemistry in the HD 163296 disk

Rong Ma, Donghui Quan, Yan Zhou +6

Sulfur chemistry in the formation process of low-mass stars and planets remains poorly understood. The protoplanetary disks (PPDs) are the birthplace of planets and its distinctive…

astro-ph.GA2024

Magnetic Field of Molecular Gas Measured with the Velocity Gradient Technique II: Curved Magnetic Field in kpc-Scale Bubble of NGC\,628

Mengke Zhao, Jianjun Zhou, Willem A. Baan +9

We report the detection of the ordered alignment between the magnetic field and kpc-scale bubbles in the nearby spiral galaxy, NGC\,628. Applying the Velocity Gradient Technique (V…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Ammonia Observations of Planck Cold Cores

Dilda Berdikhan., Jarken Esimbek., Christian Henkel. +11

Single-pointing observations of NH (1,1) and (2,2) were conducted towards 672 Planck Early Release Cold Cores (ECCs) using the Nanshan 26-m radio telescope. Out of these source…

astro-ph.GA2023

Magnetic Fields in Giant Filaments Probed by the Velocity Gradient Technique: Regular Magnetic Field interrupted by Magnetization Gaps

Mengke Zhao, Guang-Xing Li, Jianjun Zhou +7

We study the magnetic field structures in six giant filaments associated with the spiral arms of the Milky Way by applying the Velocity Gradient technique (VGT) to the 13CO spectro…

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

Infall Motions in the Hot Core Associated with Hypercompact HII Region G345.0061+01.794 B

Toktarkhan Komesh, Guido Garay, Christian Henkel +13

We report high angular resolution observations, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in band 6, of high excitation molecular lines of and and of the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 16 cited

Gravitational collapse and accretion flows in the hub filament system G323.46-0.08

Yingxiu Ma, Jianjun Zhou, Jarken Esimbek +9

We studied the hub filament system G323.46-0.08 based on archival molecular line data from the SEDIGISM 13CO survey and infrared data from the GLIMPSE, MIPS, and Hi-GAL surveys. G3…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

Magnetic Field of Molecular Gas Measured with the Velocity Gradient Technique I. Orion A

Mengke Zhao, Jianjun Zhou, Yue Hu +8

Magnetic fields play an important role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation. Using the Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT) model, we measured the magnetic field in…

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★ 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.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★ 12 cited

Extended HNCO, SiO, and HCN emission in 43 southern star-forming regions

Yu-Xin He, Christian Henkel, Jian-Jun Zhou +9

We have selected 43 southern massive star-forming regions to study the spatial distribution of HNCO 4-3, SiO 2-1 and HCN 10-9 line emission and to investigate t…

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★ 8 cited

Studies of the distinct regions due to CO selective dissociation in the Aquila molecular cloud

Toktarkhan Komesh, Willem Baan, Jarken Esimbek +6

Aims. We investigate the role of selective dissociation in the process of star formation by comparing the physical parameters of protostellar-prestellar cores and the distinct regi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

Ammonia observations towards the Aquila Rift cloud complex

Kadirya Tursun, Jarken Esimbek, Christian Henkel +7

We surveyed the Aquila Rift complex including the Serpens South and W40 region in the NH(1,1) and (2,2) transitions making use of the Nanshan 26-m telescope. The kinetic temper…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 12 cited

Evidence for dense gas heated by the explosion in Orion KL

Dalei Li, Xindi Tang, Christian Henkel +7

We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of Orion KL in a 20 (8000 AU) sized region with para-HCS , , and mak…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

NH (1,1) hyperfine intensity anomalies in the Orion A molecular cloud

Dong-dong Zhou, Gang Wu, Jarken Esimbek +5

In LTE, the two inner satellite lines (ISLs) and the two outer satellite lines (OSLs) of the NH (1,1) transition are each predicted to have equal intensities. However, hyperf…