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20132026
most citedThe Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP): Project Details and Initial Results from the Galactic Longitude of 25.8deg to 49.7deg

203 citations · 885 across the 57 of their papers we have counts for

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57 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Identifying the principal mechanism of star formation feedback

Chong Li, Rouyu Li, Keping Qiu +27

Feedback from massive stars regulates the formation of next-generation stars and planets and thus shapes the evolution of galaxies, yet observational evidence capable of determinin…

astro-ph.GA2026

Statistical Properties of Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way: Insights from Three-Isotopologue CO Observations of the MWISP Project

Xin Zhou, Ji Yang, Qing-Zeng Yan +5

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of molecular cloud (MC) properties using the MWISP survey's 12CO, 13CO, and C18O (J = 1--0) data toward the inner (l = 45--6…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Comparative Study of TeV Gamma-Ray Sources with Various Objects

Xin Zhou, Ji Yang, Yang Su +5

We investigate the relationships between LHAASO TeV gamma-ray sources and various kinds of objects, including pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), HII regions, mi…

astro-ph.GA2026

The radial velocity stability for reference sources in the MWISP CO survey

Lixia Yuan, Ji Yang, Min Fang +3

To assess the velocity stability of CO spectral lines in the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, we employ a cross-correlation method to measure velocity shifts acros…

astro-ph.GA2026

How is Cold Gas Loaded into Galactic Nuclear Outflows?

Yang Su, Xin Liu, Shiyu Zhang +7

The origin of the multiphase gas within the Fermi/eROSITA bubbles is crucial for understanding Galactic Center (GC) feedback. We use HI4PI data to investigate the kinematics and ph…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Study Revealing Physical Attributes of Supernova Remnant in G321.3-3.9

Shaobo Zhang, Xianhuan Lei, Hui Zhu +5

We present a radio analysis of the recently identified supernova remnant G321.3-3.9 using archival multi-wavelength data spanning 88-2304 MHz. The source exhibits an elliptical she…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey: Data Release 1

Ji Yang, Qing-Zeng Yan, Yang Su +31

We present the first data release (DR1) of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, a mapping in the J=(1-0) transition lines of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O toward the northe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

CU-JADE: A Method for Traversing Extinction Jumps along the Line of Sight

Shiyu Zhang, Yang Su, Xuepeng Chen +8

Although interstellar dust extinction serves as a powerful distance estimator, the solar system's location within the Galactic plane complicates distance determinations, especially…

astro-ph.GA2025

Molecular Gas Distribution toward the Inner and Outer Galaxy Revealed by MWISP -- the Galactic Longitude 45°--60°and 120°--130°

Xin Zhou, Ji Yang, Yan Sun +5

Molecular clouds (MCs) are cradles of star and planet formation, thereby playing an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Based on the unbiased Milky Way Imaging Scroll Pain…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Gas Transfer Between the Inner 3-kpc Disk and the Galactic Central Molecular Zone

Yang Su, Shiyu Zhang, Yan Sun +10

We uncovered a more tilted molecular gas structure with highly negative velocities located near the dust lane. Our observations also show that the approaching gas flows from the ov…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Examining Turbulence in Galactic Molecular Clouds -- I: A Statistical Analysis of Velocity Structures

Yuehui Ma, Miaomiao Zhang, Hongchi Wang +14

We present a systematic analysis of the velocity structure functions (VSFs) of 167 molecular clouds with angular sizes greater than 176 arcmin in three sectors of the Gal…

astro-ph.GA2024

A new view of the Spiral Structure of the Northern Outer Milky Way in Carbon Monoxide

Yan Sun, Ji Yang, Shaobo Zhang +12

Based on 32162 molecular clouds from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project, we obtain new face-on molecular gas maps of the northern outer Galaxy. The total molecular gas s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Revealing Gas Inflows towards the Galactic Central Molecular Zone

Yang Su, Shiyu Zhang, Yan Sun +7

We study the gas inflows towards the Galactic Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) based on the gas morphological and kinematic features from the MWISP in the region of l=1.2 deg--19.0 deg…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

On the Flux-Intensity Relation of Molecular Clouds

Qing-Zeng Yan, Ji Yang, Yang Su +7

In this work, we report a study on the relationship between flux and intensity for molecular clouds. Our analysis is established on high-quality CO images from the Milky Way Imagin…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Multilayer Nature of Molecular Gas toward the Cygnus Region

Shiyu Zhang, Yang Su, Xuepeng Chen +12

We study the physical properties and 3D distribution of molecular clouds (MCs) toward the Cygnus region using the MWISP CO survey and Gaia DR3 data. Based on Gaussian decomposition…

astro-ph.GA2024

Relative velocities between CO structures within CO Molecular clouds

Lixia Yuan, Ji Yang, Xuepeng Chen +10

Velocity fields of molecular clouds (MCs) can provide crucial information on the merger and split between clouds, as well as their internal kinematics and maintenance, energy injec…

astro-ph.GA2024

Magnetically Aligned Striations in the L914 Filamentary Cloud

Li Sun, Xuepeng Chen, Min Fang +6

We present CO () multi-line observations toward the L914 dark cloud in the vicinity of the Cygnus X region, using the 13.7 m millimeter telescope of the Purple Mountain Ob…

astro-ph.GA2023

Understanding the Kinetic Energy deposition within Molecular Clouds

Lixia Yuan, Ji Yang, Fujun Du +8

According to the structures traced by CO spectral lines within the CO molecular clouds (MCs), we investigate the contributions of their internal gas motions and relat…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Systematic Study of Associations between Supernova Remnants and Molecular Clouds

Xin Zhou, Yang Su, Ji Yang +12

We universally search for evidence of kinematic and spatial correlation of supernova remnant (SNR) and molecular cloud (MC) associations for nearly all SNRs in the coverage of the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Distributions and Physical Properties of Molecular Clouds in the Third Galactic Quadrant: = [219.75, 229.75] and = [-5.25, 5.25]

Yiwei Dong, Yan Sun, Ye Xu +11

We present the results of an unbiased CO/CO/CO ( = 1-0) survey in a portion of the third Galactic quadrant (TGQ): = [219.75, 229.75] and = […

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

In search for infalling clumps in molecular clouds -- A catalogue of CO blue-profiles

Zhibo Jiang, Shaobo Zhang, Zhiwei Chen +5

We have started a systematic survey of molecular clumps with infall motions to study the very early phase of star formation. Our first step is to utilize the data products by MWISP…

gr-qc2023★ 47 cited

Search for spin-dependent gravitational interactions at the Earth range

Shaobo Zhang, Zengli Ba, Denghui Ning +3

Among the four fundamental forces, only gravity does not couple to particle spins according to the general theory of relativity. We test this principle by searching for an anomalou…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

On the Spatial Distribution of CO Structures within CO Molecular Clouds

Lixia Yuan, Ji Yang, Fujun Du +8

We look into the 2851 CO molecular clouds harboring CO structures to reveal the distribution of the projected angular separations and radial velocity separations betw…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The Cassiopeia Filament: A Blown Spur of the Local Arm

Xuepeng Chen, Li Sun, Jiancheng Feng +12

We present wide-field and high-sensitivity CO(1-0) molecular line observations toward the Cassiopeia region, using the 13.7m millimeter telescope of the Purple Mountain Observatory…