8 papers
FLAGS II: Constraining Galaxy Formation Models with Dimensionality Reduction of Direct Observables
Jack C. Turner, Stephen M. Wilkins, William J. Roper +1
Comparisons between observations of galaxies and theoretical predictions are regularly performed using physical properties, which are inferred by the often slow and biased process…
CARPP: Parametric Radiative-Transfer Fitting of Molecular Cores from Dust Continuum Data
Yuchen Xing, Di Li, Nannan Yue +5
The density profiles of dense molecular cores are important indicators of their physical and evolutionary states. Multi-wavelength dust continuum data offers excellent constraints…
A tool of Hierarchical cOre ideNtification and Kinematic property AssIgnment (HONKAI) for Dense Cores
Jiawei Liu, Zhiyuan Ren, Di Li +8
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) contains cold dense gas at the earliest stage of massive star and cluster formation. In studying the IRDCs, a universal and fundamental task is to reso…
An inverted infall profile for the collapse of the massive star-forming IRDC SDC335.579-0.292
Jinjin Xie, Gary A. Fuller, Di Li +8
There is increasing evidence for global collapse of clumps over parsec-scales in massive star formation regions. Such collapse may result in characteristic molecular line emission…
Tails of Gravity: Persistence of Star Formation in the CMZ Environment
Linjing Feng, Sihan Jiao, Fengwei Xu +16
We characterize star-forming gas in six molecular clouds (Sgr B1-off, Sgr B2, Sgr C, the 20 km s and 50 km s molecular clouds, and the Brick) in the Galactic central…
Why is the Star Formation Rate Proportional to Dense Gas Mass?
Sihan Jiao, Fengwei Xu, Hauyu Baobab Liu +14
One of the most profound empirical laws of star formation is the Gao-Solomon relation, a linear correlation between the star formation rate (SFR) and the dense molecular gas mass.…