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most citedThe Dynamics of Massive Starless Cores with ALMA

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42 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Filament Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection -- Kinematic Features

Shuo Kong, Griselda Arroyo-Chávez, Volker Ossenkopf-Okada +4

The Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection (CMR) mechanism has recently been proposed as a filament formation model that emphasizes the active role of magnetic fields. To enable b…

astro-ph.GA2025

Detection of a septuple stellar system in formation via disk fragmentation

Shanghuo Li, Henrik Beuther, André Oliva +15

Stellar multiple systems play a pivotal role in cluster dynamics and stellar evolution, leading to intense astronomical phenomena like X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts, Type Ia sup…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

CO mapping of Cygnus-X -- volume density distribution

Jonah C. Baade, Shuo Kong, John H. Bieging +1

We present CO(2-1) and CO(2-1) maps of the Cygnus-X molecular cloud complex using the 10m Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT). The maps cover the southern portion o…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

CMR exploration II -- filament identification with machine learning

Duo Xu, Shuo Kong, Avichal Kaul +2

We adopt magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations that model the formation of filamentary molecular clouds via the collision-induced magnetic reconnection (CMR) mechanism under varyi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Binary Formation in a 100 m-dark Massive Core

Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, John J. Tobin +4

We report high-resolution ALMA observations toward a massive protostellar core C1-Sa (30 M) in the Dragon Infrared Dark Cloud. At the resolution of 140 AU, the core f…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

CMR exploration I -- filament structure with synthetic observations

Shuo Kong, Volker Ossenkopf-Okada, Héctor G. Arce +2

In this paper, we carry out a pilot parameter exploration for the collision-induced magnetic reconnection (CMR) mechanism that forms filamentary molecular clouds. Following Kong et…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 32 cited

The Evolution of Protostellar Outflow Cavities, Kinematics, and Angular Distribution of Momentum and Energy in Orion A: Evidence for Dynamical Cores

Cheng-Han Hsieh, Héctor G. Arce, Zhi-Yun Li +13

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the 10 kAU environment surrounding 21 protostars in the Orion A molecular cloud tracing outflows. Our…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: unbiased survey of dense cores and core mass functions in Orion A

Hideaki Takemura, Fumitaka Nakamura, Héctor G. Arce +15

The mass distribution of dense cores is a potential key to understand the process of star formation. Applying dendrogram analysis to the CARMA-NRO Orion CO (=1--0) data,…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Filament Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection -- Formation of a Star Cluster

Shuo Kong, David Whitworth, Rowan J. Smith +1

A collision-induced magnetic reconnection (CMR) mechanism was recently proposed to explain the formation of a filament in the Orion A molecular cloud. In this mechanism, a collisio…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Star Formation-Gas Density Relation in Four Galactic GMCs: Effects of Stellar Feedback

John H. Bieging, Shuo Kong

We present maps of 4 galactic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the J=2-1 emission of both CO and CO. We use an LTE analysis to derive maps of the CO excitation temperature a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 4 cited

Dense Gas Formation via Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection in a Disk Galaxy with a BiSymmetric Spiral Magnetic Field

Shuo Kong

Recently, a collision-induced magnetic reconnection (CMR) mechanism was proposed to explain a dense filament formation in the Orion A giant molecular cloud. A natural question is t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

A Census of Protostellar Outflows in Nearby Molecular Clouds

Duo Xu, Stella Offner, Robert Gutermuth +2

We adopt the deep learning method CASI-3D (Convolutional Approach to Structure Identification-3D) to systemically identify protostellar outflows in 12CO and 13CO observations of th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 20 cited

Evidence of Core Growth in the Dragon Infrared Dark Cloud: A Path for Massive Star Formation

Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, Yancy Shirley +1

A sample of 1.3 mm continuum cores in the Dragon infrared dark cloud (also known as G28.37+0.07 or G28.34+0.06) is analyzed statistically. Based on their association with molecular…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

High-resolution CARMA Observation of Molecular Gas in the North America and Pelican Nebulae

Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, John M. Carpenter +15

We present the first results from a CARMA high-resolution CO(1-0), CO(1-0), and CO(1-0) molecular line survey of the North America and Pelican (NAP) Nebulae. C…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The Core Mass Function in the Orion Nebula Cluster Region: What Determines the Final Stellar Masses?

Hideaki Takemura, Fumitaka Nakamura, Shuo Kong +29

Applying dendrogram analysis to the CARMA-NRO CO (=1--0) data having an angular resolution of 8", we identified 692 dense cores in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) r…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Rotating filament in Orion B: Do cores inherit their angular momentum from their parent filament?

Cheng-Han Hsieh, Héctor G. Arce, Diego Mardones +2

Angular momentum is one of the most important physical quantities that govern star formation. The initial angular momentum of a core may be responsible for its fragmentation and ca…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: Filament Formation via Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection -- The Stick in Orion A

Shuo Kong, Volker Ossenkopf-Okada, Héctor G. Arce +13

A unique filament is identified in the {\it Herschel} maps of the Orion A giant molecular cloud. The filament, which, we name the Stick, is ruler-straight and at an early evolution…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

SiO Outflows as Tracers of Massive Star Formation in Infrared Dark Clouds

Mengyao Liu, Jonathan C. Tan, Joshua Marvil +4

To study the early phases of massive star formation, we present ALMA observations of SiO(5-4) emission and VLA observations of 6 cm continuum emission towards 32 Infrared Dark Clou…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: Protostellar Outflows, Energetics, and Filamentary Alignment

Jesse R. Feddersen, Héctor G. Arce, Shuo Kong +7

We identify 45 protostellar outflows in CO maps of the Orion A giant molecular cloud from the CARMA-NRO Orion survey. Our sample includes 11 newly detected outflows. We measure the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 12 cited

Star Cluster Formation in Orion A

Wanggi Lim, Fumitaka Nakamura, Benjamin Wu +9

We introduce new analysis methods for studying the star cluster formation processes in Orion A, especially examining the scenario of a cloud-cloud collision. We utilize the CARMA-N…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 7 cited

Sulphur-Bearing and Complex Organic Molecules in an Infrared Cold Core

Pedro P. B. Beaklini, Edgar Mendoza, Carla M. Canelo +9

Since the start of ALMA observatory operation, new and important chemistry of infrared cold core was revealed. Molecular transitions at millimeter range are being used to identify…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 31 cited

Nobeyama 45-m Mapping Observations toward Orion A.I. Molecular Outflows

Yoshihiro Tanabe, Fumitaka Nakamura, Takashi Tsukagoshi +9

We conducted an exploration of 12CO molecular outflows in the Orion A giant molecular cloud to investigate outflow feedback using 12CO (J = 1-0) and 13CO (J = 1-0) data obtained by…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 7 cited

The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: Core Emergence and Kinematics in the Orion A Cloud

Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, Anneila I. Sargent +19

We have investigated the formation and kinematics of sub-mm continuum cores in the Orion A molecular cloud. A comparison between sub-mm continuum and near infrared extinction shows…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 49 cited

Widespread Molecular Outflows in the Infrared Dark Cloud G28.37+0.07: Indications of Orthogonal Outflow-Filament Alignment

Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, María José Maureira +3

We present ALMA CO(2-1) observations toward a massive infrared dark cloud G28.37+0.07. The ALMA data reveal numerous molecular (CO) outflows with a wide range of sizes throughout t…