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Accelerated gas flow along Ophiuchus B44 filament: Breaking Position-Position-Velocity degeneracy
J. Alves, C. Zucker, C. Lada +15
(Abridged) Stellar feedback from massive stars in the Upper-Sco has been proposed to have reshaped the gas in the nearby Ophiuchus complex. In this framework, feedback organizes th…
Most nearby young star clusters formed in three massive complexes
Cameren Swiggum, João Alves, Robert Benjamin +9
Efforts to unveil the structure of the local interstellar medium and its recent star formation history have spanned the past seventy years. Recent studies utilizing precise data fr…
The Radcliffe Wave is Oscillating
Ralf Konietzka, Alyssa A. Goodman, Catherine Zucker +6
Our Sun lies within 300 pc of the 2.7-kpc-long sinusoidal chain of dense gas clouds known as the Radcliffe Wave. The structure's wave-like shape was discovered using 3D dust mappin…
The Corona Australis star formation complex is accelerating away from the Galactic plane
L. Posch, N. Miret-Roig, J. Alves +5
We study the kinematics of the recently discovered Corona Australis (CrA) chain of clusters by examining the 3D space motion of its young stars using Gaia DR3 and APOGEE-2 data. Wh…
A Parsec-Scale Catalog of Molecular Clouds in the Solar Neighborhood Based on 3D Dust Mapping: Implications for the Mass-Size Relation
Shlomo Cahlon, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman +2
We dendrogram the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map, leveraging its pc spatial resolution to produce a uniform catalog of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood. Using acc…
A parsec-scale Galactic 3D dust map out to 1.25 kpc from the Sun
Gordian Edenhofer, Catherine Zucker, Philipp Frank +4
High-resolution 3D maps of interstellar dust are critical for probing the underlying physics shaping the structure of the interstellar medium, and for foreground correction of astr…
Roman Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Opportunity: Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS)
Roberta Paladini, Catherine Zucker, Robert Benjamin +67
A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitiv…
NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY
Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…
A panoptic view of the Taurus molecular cloud I. The cloud dynamics revealed by gas emission and 3D dust
J. D. Soler, C. Zucker, J. E. G. Peek +14
We present a study of the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of interstellar dust derived from stellar extinction observations toward the Taurus molecular cloud (MC) and its relat…
VISIONS: The VISTA Star Formation Atlas -- I. Survey overview
Stefan Meingast, João Alves, Hervé Bouy +37
VISIONS is an ESO public survey of five nearby (d < 500 pc) star-forming molecular cloud complexes that are canonically associated with the constellations of Chamaeleon, Corona Aus…
The star formation history of the Sco-Cen association. Coherent star formation patterns in space and time
Sebastian Ratzenböck, Josefa E. Großschedl, João Alves +13
We reconstruct the star formation history of the Sco-Cen OB association using a novel high-resolution age map of the region. We develop an approach to produce robust ages for Sco-C…
A 3D View of Orion: I. Barnard's Loop
Michael M. Foley, Alyssa Goodman, Catherine Zucker +11
Barnard's Loop is a famous arc of H emission located in the Orion star-forming region. Here, we provide evidence of a possible formation mechanism for Barnard's Loop and compare…
Measuring the 8621 Å Diffuse Interstellar Band in Gaia DR3 RVS Spectra: Obtaining a Clean Catalog by Marginalizing over Stellar Types
Andrew K. Saydjari, Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Catherine Zucker +2
Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are broad absorption features associated with interstellar dust and can serve as chemical and kinematic tracers. Conventional measurements of DIBs…
The Solar Neighborhood in the Age of Gaia
Catherine Zucker, João Alves, Alyssa Goodman +2
Most of what we know about the formation of stars, and essentially everything we know about the formation of planets, comes from observations of our solar neighborhood within 2 kpc…
Characterizing the 3D Kinematics of Young Stars in the Radcliffe Wave
Alan J. Tu, Catherine Zucker, Joshua S. Speagle +5
We present an analysis of the kinematics of the Radcliffe Wave, a 2.7-kpc-long sinusoidal band of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood recently detected via 3D dust mapping.…
The Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey 2 (DECaPS2): More Sky, Less Bias, and Better Uncertainties
A. K. Saydjari, E. F. Schlafly, D. Lang +10
Deep optical and near-infrared imaging of the entire Galactic plane is essential for understanding our Galaxy's stars, gas, and dust. The second data release of the DECam Plane Sur…
Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Isolated, Intermediate-Mass YSOs
Michael A. Kuhn, Ramzi Saber, Matthew S. Povich +8
Wide-field searches for young stellar objects (YSOs) can place useful constraints on the prevalence of clustered versus distributed star formation. The Spitzer/IRAC Candidate YSO (…
Disconnecting the Dots: Re-Examining the Nature of Stellar "Strings" in the Milky Way
Catherine Zucker, J. E. G. Peek, Sarah R. Loebman
Recent analyses of Gaia data have resulted in the identification of new stellar structures, including a new class of extended stellar filaments called stellar "strings", first prop…
The Radcliffe Wave as the gas spine of the Orion Arm
Cameren Swiggum, João Alves, Elena D'Onghia +7
The Radcliffe Wave is a kpc long coherent gas structure containing most of the star-forming complexes near the Sun. In this Letter we aim to find a Galactic context for the…
The Magnetic Field in the Milky Way Filamentary Bone G47
Ian W. Stephens, Philip C. Myers, Catherine Zucker +21
Star formation primarily occurs in filaments where magnetic fields are expected to be dynamically important. The largest and densest filaments trace spiral structure within galaxie…
Star formation near the Sun is driven by expansion of the Local Bubble
Catherine Zucker, Alyssa A. Goodman, João Alves +8
For decades we have known that the Sun lies within the Local Bubble, a cavity of low-density, high-temperature plasma surrounded by a shell of cold, neutral gas and dust. However,…
On the Three-Dimensional Structure of Local Molecular Clouds
Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman, João Alves +9
We leverage the 1 pc spatial resolution of the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map to characterize the three-dimensional structure of nearby molecular clouds ( pc). We st…
The Per-Tau Shell: A Giant Star-Forming Spherical Shell Revealed by 3D Dust Observations
Shmuel Bialy, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman +6
A major question in the field of star formation is how molecular clouds form out of the diffuse Interstellar Medium (ISM). Recent advances in 3D dust mapping are revolutionizing ou…
A high pitch angle structure in the Sagittarius Arm
M. A. Kuhn, R. A. Benjamin, C. Zucker +6
Context: In spiral galaxies, star formation tends to trace features of the spiral pattern, including arms, spurs, feathers, and branches. However, in our own Milky Way, it has been…