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most citedATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- I. Survey description and a first look at G9.62+0.19

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47 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

ALOHA IRDCs Molecular Line Follow-up: I. Gas properties and kinematics

Jinjin Xie, Yaoting Yan, Zhiyuan Ren +109

Infrared Dark Clouds are ideal sites for investigating the initial conditions of massive star and cluster formation. The A Lei Of the Habitat and Assembly of Infrared Dark Clouds (…

astro-ph.GA2026

CARPP: Parametric Radiative-Transfer Fitting of Molecular Cores from Dust Continuum Data

Yuchen Xing, Di Li, Nannan Yue +5

The density profiles of dense molecular cores are important indicators of their physical and evolutionary states. Multi-wavelength dust continuum data offers excellent constraints…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 4 cited

Random gas motions inside sub-parsec scale supercritical filaments

Chao Zhang, Tie Liu, Mika Juvela +12

Supercritical gas filaments in molecular clouds host the dense cores in which new stars form. The mechanisms governing their formation and subsequent gas accretion remain poorly un…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Discovery of Superfine Dusty Fibrils inside Massive Star-forming Clumps

Yan-Kun Zhang, Tie Liu, Wenyu Jiao +35

We report the discovery of more than 320 superfine dusty filamentary structures (fibrils) inside 121 massive star forming clumps that are located in widely different Galactic envir…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

A misaligned protostellar disk fed by gas streamers in a barred spiral-like massive dense core

Xiaofeng Mai, Tie Liu, Xunchuan Liu +42

High-mass stars, born in massive dense cores (MDCs), profoundly impact the cosmic ecosystem through feedback processes and metal enrichment, yet little is known about how MDCs asse…

astro-ph.GA2025

The HASHTAG project II. Giant molecular cloud properties across the M31 disc

Yikai Deng, Zongnan Li, Zhiyuan Li +17

We present a study of giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using CO(3-2) data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in selected regions acro…

astro-ph.GA2025

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of massive Star-forming regions -XX. Probability distribution function of integrated intensity for dense molecular gas tracers

C. Zhang, Tie Liu, Sihan Jiao +16

We report the observations of J=1-0 of HCN, HCO+, H13CO+, and H13CN, HC3N (J=11-10) emission towards 135 massive star-forming clumps, as part of the ATOMS (ALMA Three-millimeter Ob…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): Nested Morphological and Kinematic Structures of Outflows Revealed in SiO and CO Emission

Chun-Fan Liu, Hsien Shang, Doug Johnstone +22

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP) reveals complex nested morphological and kinematic features of molecular outf…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: Fibers' role in star formation unveiled in an intermediate-mass protocluster region of the Vela D cloud

Dongting Yang, HongLi Liu, Tie Liu +32

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the IRS 17 filament within the intermediate-mass protocluster IRAS 08448-4343 (of ), using ALMA data fro…

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★ 3 cited

On the Scarcity of Dense Cores ( cm) in High Latitude Planck Galactic Cold Clumps

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +34

High-latitude () molecular clouds have virial parameters that exceed 1, but whether these clouds can form stars has not been studied systematically. Using JCMT SCUB…

astro-ph.GA2024

The magnetic field in colliding filaments G202.3+2.5

Qi-Lao Gu, Tie Liu, Pak Shing Li +19

We observe the magnetic field morphology towards a nearby star-forming filamentary cloud, G202.3+2.5, by the JCMT/POL-2 850 μm thermal dust polarization observation with an angular…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

A High-Mass Young Star-forming Core Escaping from Its Parental Filament

Zhiyuan Ren, Xi Chen, Tie Liu +17

We studied the unique kinematic properties in massive filament G352.63-1.07 at -AU spatial scale with the dense molecular tracers observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/s…

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★ 3 cited

ALMA Survey of Orion Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (ALMASOP): A forming quadruple system with continuum `ribbons' and intricate outflows

Qiu-yi Luo, Tie Liu, Aaron T. Lee +31

One of the most poorly understood aspects of low-mass star formation is how multiple-star systems are formed. Here we present the results of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

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★ 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.IM2022★ 20 cited

J-comb: An image fusion algorithm to combine observations covering different spatial frequency ranges

Sihan Jiao, Yuxin Lin, Xiangyu Shui +3

Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This h…

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.…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- VII. A catalogue of SiO clumps from ACA observations

Rong Liu, Tie Liu, Gang Chen +28

To understand the nature of SiO emission, we conducted ACA observations of the SiO (2-1) lines toward 146 massive star-forming regions, as part of the ALMA Three-millimeter Observa…

astro-ph.GA2021

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- V. Hierarchical fragmentation and gas dynamics in IRDC G034.43+00.24

Hong-Li Liu, Anandmayee Tej, Tie Liu +35

We present new 3-mm continuum and molecular lines observations from the ATOMS survey towards the massive protostellar clump, MM1, located in the filamentary infrared dark cloud (IR…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- VI. On the formation of the "L" type filament in G286.21+0.17

Jian-Wen Zhou, Tie Liu, Jin-Zeng Li +16

Filaments play an important role in star formation, but the formation process of filaments themselves is still unclear. The high-mass star forming clump G286.21+0.17 (G286 for shor…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Convergent Filaments Contracting Towards an Intermediate-mass Prestellar Core

Zhiyuan Ren, Lei Zhu, Hui Shi +11

Filamentary structures are closely associated with star-forming cores, but their detailed physical connections are still not clear. We studied the dense gas in the region of OMC-3…