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20162026
most citedA holistic perspective on the dynamics of G035.39-00.33: the interplay between gas and magnetic fields

81 citations · 478 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey. IV. Core Mass Function and Evolutionary Trends in Core Formation Efficiency and Chemistry

Wenyu Jiao, Tie Liu, Dongting Yang +43

The ALMA-QUARKS (Querying Underlying Mechanisms of Massive Star Formation with ALMA-Resolved Gas Kinematics and Structures) survey targets 139 massive protoclusters selected from t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Trace the Self-Gravitating Gas Using CO Isotopologues

Linjing Feng, Jingwen Wu, Sihan Jiao +12

Recent studies have shown that the star formation rate (SFR) correlates tightly and linearly with the mass of gravitationally bound gas, which can be delineated from the power-law…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 4 cited

Random gas motions inside sub-parsec scale supercritical filaments

Chao Zhang, Tie Liu, Mika Juvela +12

Supercritical gas filaments in molecular clouds host the dense cores in which new stars form. The mechanisms governing their formation and subsequent gas accretion remain poorly un…

astro-ph.GA2026

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: Investigating Thermal Feedback of Massive Protostars in Hot Molecular Cores

Dezhao Meng, Tie Liu, Jarken Esimbek +33

We identify a sample of 83 spatially resolved hot molecular cores (HMCs) in the QUARKS survey, aiming at investigating thermal feedback from massive stars. Using CHCN\,(12--11)…

astro-ph.GA2025

ALMA-QUARKS: Few-Thousand-Year Hatching out of "Egg": The Supersonic Breakout of a Hypercompact H II Region from Its Parental Hot Core

Siju Zhang, Guido Garay, Fengwei Xu +19

The kinematic evolution of hypercompact H II (HC H II) regions around young high-mass stars remains poorly understood due to complex interactions with parental environs. We present…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

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★ 8 cited

Gravitationally Bound Gas Determines Star Formation in the Galaxy

Sihan Jiao, Jingwen Wu, Zhi-Yu Zhang +13

Stars form from molecular gas under complex conditions influenced by multiple competing physical mechanisms, such as gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields. However, accurately i…

astro-ph.GA2024

The ALMA-QUARKS Survey: II. the ACA 1.3 mm continuum source catalog and the assembly of dense gas in massive star-forming clumps

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +30

Leveraging the high resolution, high sensitivity, and wide frequency coverage of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the QUARKS survey, standing for "Querying…

astro-ph.GA2023

The ALMA-QUARKS survey: -- I. Survey description and data reduction

Xunchuan Liu, Tie Liu, Lei Zhu +31

This paper presents an overview of the QUARKS survey, which stands for `Querying Underlying mechanisms of massive star formation with ALMA-Resolved gas Kinematics and Structures'.…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE): Core Growth, Cluster Contraction, and Primordial Mass Segregation

Fengwei Xu, Ke Wang, Tie Liu +40

The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE) aims to investigate the process of mass assembly and its connection to high-m…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Nobeyama Survey of Inward Motions toward Cores in Orion Identified by SCUBA-2

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, You-Ting Yeh, Naomi Hirano +28

In this study, 36 cores (30 starless and 6 protostellar) identified in Orion were surveyed to search for inward motions. We used the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope, and mapped the c…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 13 cited

Molecular Cloud Cores with High Deuterium Fractions: Nobeyama Mapping Survey

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Gwanjeong Kim, Tie Liu +35

We present the results of on-the-fly mapping observations of 44 fields containing 107 SCUBA-2 cores in the emission lines of molecules, NH, HCN, and CCS at 8294 GHz…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 59 cited

ATOMS:ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- III :Catalogues of candidate hot molecular cores and Hyper/Ultra compact HII regions

Hong-Li Liu, Tie Liu, Neal J. Evans +50

We have identified 453 compact dense cores in 3 mm continuum emission maps in the ATOMS (ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions) survey, and compiled th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 26 cited

Molecular Cloud Cores with High Deuterium Fraction: Nobeyama Single-Pointing Survey

Gwanjeong Kim, Kenichi Tatematsu, Tie Liu +29

We present the results of a single-pointing survey of 207 dense cores embedded in Planck Galactic Cold Clumps distributed in five different environments ( Orionis, Orion A, B, G…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 52 cited

LEGO II: A 3 mm molecular line study covering 100 pc of one of the most actively star-forming portions within the Milky Way Disc

A. T. Barnes, J. Kauffmann, F. Bigiel +20

The current generation of (sub)mm-telescopes has allowed molecular line emission to become a major tool for studying the physical, kinematic, and chemical properties of extragalact…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 33 cited

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions -- II. Compact objects in ACA observations and star formation scaling relations

Tie Liu, Neal J. Evans, Kee-Tae Kim +40

We report studies of the relationships between the total bolometric luminosity ( or ) and the molecular line luminosities of transitions of H$^{13…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 15 cited

ALMA ACA and Nobeyama observations of two Orion cores in deuterated molecular lines

Ken'ichi Tatematsu, Tie Liu, Gwanjeong Kim +25

We mapped two molecular cloud cores in the Orion A cloud with the ALMA ACA 7-m Array and with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope. These cores have bright ND emission in sing…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 81 cited

A holistic perspective on the dynamics of G035.39-00.33: the interplay between gas and magnetic fields

Tie Liu, Pak Shing Li, Mika Juvela +54

Magnetic field is one of the key agents that play a crucial role in shaping molecular clouds and regulating star formation, yet the complete information on the magnetic field is no…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 69 cited

The TOP-SCOPE survey of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps: Survey overview and results of an exemplar source, PGCC G26.53+0.17

Tie Liu, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela +11

The low dust temperatures (<14 K) of Planck Galactic Cold Clumps (PGCCs) make them ideal targets to probe the initial conditions and very early phase of star formation. TOP-SCOPE i…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 13 cited

Precessing Jet and Large Dust Grains in the V380 Ori NE Star-forming Region

Minho Choi, Miju Kang, Jeong-Eun Lee +10

The V380 Ori NE bipolar outflow was imaged in the SiO and CO J = 1 - 0 lines, and dense cores in L1641 were observed in the 2.0-0.89 mm continuum. The highly collimated SiO jet sho…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 41 cited

High-mass Starless Clumps in the inner Galactic Plane: the Sample and Dust Properties

Jinghua Yuan, Yuefang Wu, Simon P. Ellingsen +7

We report a sample of 463 high-mass starless clump (HMSC) candidates within and . This sample has been singled out from 10861 ATLASGAL clumps. All of these s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 15 cited

The inflow signature toward different evolutionary phases of massive star formation

Mihwa Jin, Jeong-Eun Lee, Kee-Tae Kim +1

We analyzed both HCN J=1-0 and HNC J=1-0 line profiles to study the inflow motions in different evolutionary stages of massive star formation: 54 infrared dark clouds (IRDCs), 69 h…