3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
A misaligned protostellar disk fed by gas streamers in a barred spiral-like massive dense core
Xiaofeng Mai, Tie Liu, Xunchuan Liu +42
High-mass stars, born in massive dense cores (MDCs), profoundly impact the cosmic ecosystem through feedback processes and metal enrichment, yet little is known about how MDCs asse…
astro-ph.GA2025
The most massive star clusters in molecular clouds: Insights from the integrated cloud-wide initial mass function (ICIMF) theory
J. W. Zhou, Pavel Kroupa, Sami Dib
The combination of the high-resolution ALMA, JWST and HST observations provides unprecedented insights into the connection between individual molecular clouds and their internal st…
astro-ph.GA2025
Properties of the cores and filaments in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud and its L1688 hub-filament system
Bo-Sheng Jia, Guo-Yin Zhang, Alexander Menshchikov +9
Analyzing filaments and cores in molecular clouds is key to understanding galactic star formation and its environmental dependence. This paper studies the properties and distributi…