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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: Statistical Signatures of Feedback in the Orion A Molecular Cloud
Jesse R. Feddersen, Héctor G. Arce, Shuo Kong +2
We investigate the relationship between turbulence and feedback in the Orion A molecular cloud using maps of CO(1-0), CO(1-0) and CO(1-0) from the CARMA-NRO Or…
The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: The filamentary structure as seen in CO emission
S. T. Suri, A. Sanchez-Monge, P. Schilke +18
We present an initial overview of the filamentary structure in the Orion A molecular cloud utilizing a high angular and velocity resolution CO(1-0) emission map that was rec…
The Core Mass Function Across Galactic Environments. II. Infrared Dark Cloud Clumps
Mengyao Liu, Jonathan C. Tan, Yu Cheng +1
We study the core mass function (CMF) within 32 dense clumps in seven infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) via 1.3~mm continuum…
Expanding CO Shells in the Orion A Molecular Cloud
Jesse R. Feddersen, Héctor G. Arce, Shuo Kong +6
We present the discovery of expanding spherical shells around low to intermediate-mass young stars in the Orion A giant molecular cloud using observations of CO (1-0) and $^…
The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey
Shuo Kong, Héctor G. Arce, Jesse R. Feddersen +35
We present the first results from a new, high resolution, CO(1-0), CO(1-0), and CO(1-0) molecular line survey of the Orion A cloud, hereafter referred to as th…