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B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Population-Level Universality and Environmental Structuring of 450/850 m Polarization Signatures
Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +65
We observed 69 molecular cloud regions at 450 and 850 m with the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and matched the maps to a common beam. Polarizat…
B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Dual-Wavelength Constraints on Size-Dependent Grain Alignment in Star-Forming Regions
Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +65
We compared 450 and 850 m POL-2 observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at resolution. The median absolute difference in polarization angle between bands is…
Head-tail molecular clouds falling onto the Milky Way disk
Mikito Kohno, Yasuo Fukui, Takahiro Hayakawa +13
We report discovery of two CO clouds which are likely falling down to the Galactic plane at more than km s. The clouds show head-tail distributions elongated perpendicu…
ALMA 0.1 pc View of Molecular Clouds Associated with High-Mass Protostellar Systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Are Low-Metallicity Clouds Filamentary or Not?
Kazuki Tokuda, Yuri Kunitoshi, Sarolta Zahorecz +13
Filamentary molecular clouds are an essential intermediate stage in the star formation process. To test whether these structures are universal throughout cosmic star formation hist…
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,…
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…
Metallicity Dependence of Molecular Cloud Hierarchical Structure at Early Evolutionary Stages
Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Kazunari Iwasaki, Kengo Tomida +3
The formation of molecular clouds out of HI gas is the first step toward star formation. Its metallicity dependence plays a key role to determine star formation through the cosmic…
ACA CO() Mapping of the Nearest Spiral Galaxy M33. I. Initial Results and Identification of Molecular Clouds
Kazuyuki Muraoka, Ayu Konishi, Kazuki Tokuda +18
We present the results of ALMA-ACA 7 m-array observations in CO(), CO(), and CO() line emission toward the molecular-gas disk in the Local…
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…
CO Multi-line Imaging of Nearby Galaxies (COMING). XII. CO-to-H Conversion Factor and Dust-to-Gas Ratio
Atsushi Yasuda, Nario Kuno, Kazuo Sorai +8
We simultaneously measured the spatially-resolved CO-to-H conversion factor () and dust-to-gas ratio (DGR) in nearby galaxies on a kiloparsec scale. In this st…
Multi log-normal density structure in Cygnus-X molecular clouds: A fitting for N-PDF without power-law
Takeru Murase, Toshihiro Handa, Ren Matsusaka +6
We studied the H column density probability distribution function (N-PDF) based on molecular emission lines using the Nobeyama 45-m Cygnus X CO survey data. Using the DENDROGRA…
Giant molecular clouds and their Type classification in M74: Toward understanding star formation and cloud evolution
F. Demachi, Y. Fukui, R. I. Yamada +10
We investigated the giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M74 (NGC 628), using data obtained from the PHANGS project. We applied the GMC Types according to the activity of star formatio…
Insights on the Sun birth environment in the context of star-cluster formation in hub-filament systems
Doris Arzoumanian, Sota Arakawa, Masato I. N. Kobayashi +7
Cylindrical molecular filaments are observed to be the main sites of Sun-like star formation, while massive stars form in dense hubs, at the junction of multiple filaments. The rol…
Diverse Molecular Structures Across The Whole Star-Forming Disk of M83: High fidelity Imaging at 40pc Resolution
Jin Koda, Akihiko Hirota, Fumi Egusa +23
We present high-fidelity CO(1-0) imaging of molecular gas across the full star-forming disk of M83, using ALMA's 12m, 7m, and TP arrays and the MIRIAD package. The data have a mass…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Nature of supersonic turbulence and density distribution function in the multiphase interstellar medium
Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kengo Tomida +2
Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio betw…
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…
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…
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…
ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33 III: Spatially Resolved Features of the Star-Formation Inactive Million-solar-mass Cloud
Hiroshi Kondo, Kazuki Tokuda, Kazuyuki Muraoka +16
We present CO ( = 2-1), CO ( = 2-1), and CO ( = 2-1) observations toward GMC-8, one of the most massive giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in M33 using ALM…
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…