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most citedRadiative transfer with POLARIS: I. Analysis of magnetic fields through synthetic dust continuum polarization measurements

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astro-ph.GA2026

Molecular hydrogen formation on dust: The impact of gas-dust drift on formation efficiency

Stefan Reissl, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen +2

Molecular hydrogen is predominantly formed on dust-grain surfaces in the interstellar medium, where relative gas-dust motion can arise in dynamically active environments. While the…

astro-ph.GA2026

Inferring magnetic field strengths in high-redshift lensing galaxies from Faraday rotation measure observations

Stefan Reissl, Ralf S. Klessen, Annalisa Pillepich +3

Observations of Faraday rotation in the lensing galaxy of CLASS B1152+199 at z = 0.439 suggest that efficient dynamo mechanisms had already amplified galactic magnetic fields by th…

astro-ph.GA2026

IRIS: Deciphering Spectral-Line Imagery of the Galactic Center by Machine-Learning on Simulations

B. L. DuBois, Cara Battersby, Jonah C. Baade +11

In understanding the 3D structure of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), we are limited by our edge-on perspective. Towards addressing this problem, we introduce Imagery…

astro-ph.GA2026

The 10-15 GHz radio continuum survey of the Galactic Plane with SKAO

A. Traficante, C. Mininni, F. Cavallaro +63

Star formation emerges from the complex interplay between gravity, turbulence, magnetic fields, and stellar feedback, all of which vary across spatial scales and Galactic environme…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

SIMPLIFI -- Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: a Legacy Investigation of Filaments. I. Magnetically-Guided Accretion onto the DR21 Ridge

Thushara G. S. Pillai, Jens Kauffmann, Juan D. Soler +15

We present first results from SIMPLIFI (Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: a Legacy Investigation of Filaments), a SOFIA/HAWC+ polarimetric survey of Galact…

astro-ph.GA2026

SIMPLIFI-Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: A Legacy Investigation of Filaments. II. Enhancement of grain alignment near embedded protostars in the DR21 Ridge

S. Kumar, T. G. S. Pillai, G. V. Panopoulou +10

Thermal dust continuum polarimetry is a powerful indirect probe of magnetic field geometry in dense molecular clouds while at the same time providing information on the alignment o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Rhea-RT: Dynamical impact of Central Molecular Zone conditions on the properties of the interstellar medium and stellar feedback coupling

R. G. Tress, N. Brucy, P. Girichidis +22

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is an extreme star formation environment, characterized by higher density, higher turbulence, stronger orbital shear, and stronger magnetic field s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Modeling Local Bubble analogs II: Synthetic Faraday rotation maps

Efrem Maconi, Stefan Reissl, Juan D. Soler +4

Faraday rotation describes the change of the linear polarization angle of radiation passing through a magnetized plasma and it is quantified by the rotation measure (RM), which is…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The radiative torque spin-up efficiency of ballistic dust grain aggregates

Jonathan A. Jäger, Stefan Reissl, Ralf S. Klessen

Aims. It is quintessential for the analysis of the observed dust polarization signal to understand the rotational dynamics of interstellar dust grains. Additionally, high rotation…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

A deep-learning approach to the 3D reconstruction of dust density and temperature in star-forming regions

Victor F. Ksoll, Stefan Reissl, Ralf S. Klessen +7

Aims: We introduce a new deep-learning approach for the reconstruction of 3D dust density and temperature distributions from multi-wavelength dust emission observations on the scal…

astro-ph.GA2023

A reproduction of the Milky Way's Faraday rotation measure map in galaxy simulations from global to local scales

Stefan Reissl, Ralf S. Klessen, Eric W. Pellegrini +6

Magnetic fields are of critical importance for our understanding of the origin and long-term evolution of the Milky Way. This is due to their decisive role in the dynamical evoluti…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

Dust attenuation in galaxies at cosmic dawn from the FirstLight simulations

Muzammil Mushtaq, Daniel Ceverino, Ralf S. Klessen +2

We study the behavior of dust in galaxies at cosmic dawn, z=6-8, by coupling the FirstLight simulations with the radiative transfer code POLARIS. The starburst nature of these gala…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The rotational disruption of porous dust aggregates from ab-initio kinematic calculations

Stefan Reissl, Philipp Nguyen, Lucas M. Jordan +1

Context: The sizes of dust in the interstellar medium follows a distribution where most of the dust mass is in smaller grains. However, the re-distribution from larger grains towar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

Synthetic dust polarization emission maps at 353 GHz for an observer placed inside a Local Bubble-like cavity

E. Maconi, J. D. Soler, S. Reissl +10

We present a study of synthetic observations of polarized dust emission at 353 GHz as seen by an observer within a cavity in the interstellar medium (ISM). The cavity is selected f…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

The Mechanical Alignment of Dust (MAD) I: On the spin-up process of fractal grains by a gas-dust drift

Stefan Reissl, Paul Meehan, Ralf S. Klessen

Context: Aligned dust grains are commonly exploited to probe the magnetic field orientation. However, the exact physical processes that result in a coherent large-scale grain align…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The complex multi-scale structure in simulated and observed emission maps of the proto-cluster cloud G0.253+0.016 (`the Brick')

Maya A. Petkova, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, A. Louise Kluge +6

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the central ~ 500 pc of the Milky Way) hosts molecular clouds in an extreme environment of strong shear, high gas pressure and density, and complex…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 89 cited

Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South

Thushara G. S. Pillai, Dan P. Clemens, Stefan Reissl +11

Observations indicate that molecular clouds are strongly magnetized, and that magnetic fields influence the formation of stars. A key observation supporting the conclusion that mol…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Magnetic fields in star-forming systems (II): examining dust polarization, the Zeeman effect, and the Faraday rotation measure as magnetic field tracers

Stefan Reissl, Amelia M. Stutz, Ralf S. Klessen +2

The degree to which the formation and evolution of clouds and filaments in the interstellar medium is regulated by magnetic fields remains an open question. Yet the fundamental pro…

astro-ph.GA2020

Synthetic observations of deuterated molecules in massive prestellar cores

Joaquin Zamponi F., Andrea Giannetti, Stefano Bovino +5

Young massive stars are usually found embedded in dense massive molecular clumps and are known for being highly obscured and distant. During their formation process, deuteration is…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 13 cited

Synthetic observations of spiral arm tracers of a simulated Milky Way analog

Stefan Reissl, Jeroen M. Stil, En Chen +16

Context: The Faraday rotation measure (RM) is often used to study the magnetic field strength and orientation within the ionized medium of the Milky Way. Observations indicate a RM…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

Less than the sum of its parts: the dust-corrected H luminosity of star-forming galaxies explored at different spatial resolutions with MaNGA and MUSE

N. Vale Asari, V. Wild, A. L. de Amorim +10

The H and H emission line luminosities measured in a single integrated spectrum are affected in non-trivial ways by point-to-point variations in dust attenuation in a galaxy.…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 78 cited

From parallel to perpendicular -- On the orientation of magnetic fields in molecular clouds

D. Seifried, S. Walch, M. Weis +4

We present synthetic dust polarization maps of simulated molecular clouds (MCs) with the goal to systematically explore the origin of the relative orientation of the magnetic field…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 38 cited

Strong excess Faraday rotation on the Inside of the Sagittarius spiral arm

R. Shanahan, S. J. Lemmer, J. M. Stil +12

We present first results for Faraday rotation of compact polarized sources (1 to 2 GHz continuum) in The HI/OH/Recombination line (THOR) survey of the inner Galaxy. In the Galactic…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

WARPFIELD-EMP: The Self-Consistent Prediction of Emission Lines from Evolving HII Regions in Dense Molecular Clouds

Eric W. Pellegrini, Daniel Rahner, Stefan Reissl +4

We present the {\sc warpfield} emission predictor, {\sc warpfield-emp}, which couples the 1D stellar feedback code {\sc warpfield} with the {\sc cloudy} \hii region/PDR code and th…