High-sensitivity maps of molecular ions in L1544-I. Deuteration of N2H+ and HCO+ and primary evidence of N2D+ depletion

E Redaelli, L Bizzocchi, P Caselli, O Sipilä… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. The deuterium fraction in low-mass prestellar cores is a good diagnostic indicator of
the initial phases of star formation, and is also a fundamental quantity to infer the ionisation …

Alignment of dense molecular core morphology and velocity gradients with ambient magnetic fields

A Pandhi, RK Friesen, L Fissel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Studies of dense core morphologies and their orientations with respect to gas flows and the
local magnetic field have been limited to only a small sample of cores with spectroscopic …

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS)-IV. Observational results and statistical trends

M Rodríguez-Baras, A Fuente… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular CloudS (GEMS) is an IRAM 30 m Large
Program designed to provide estimates of the S, C, N, and O depletions and gas ionization …

The JCMT BISTRO survey: Revealing the diverse magnetic field morphologies in Taurus dense cores with sensitive submillimeter polarimetry

C Eswaraiah, D Li, RS Furuya… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have obtained sensitive dust continuum polarization observations at 850 μm in the B213
region of Taurus using POL-2 on SCUBA-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as part of …

Evolution of the Angular Momentum of Molecular Cloud Cores Formed from Filament Fragmentation

Y Misugi, S Inutsuka, D Arzoumanian - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The angular momentum of molecular cloud cores plays an important role in the process of
star formation. However, the time evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud …

Methanol mapping in cold cores: testing model predictions

A Punanova, A Vasyunin, P Caselli… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical models predict that in cold cores gas-phase methanol is expected to be abundant
at the outer edge of the CO depletion zone, where CO is actively adsorbed. CO adsorption …

FRagmentation and Evolution of Dense Cores Judged by ALMA (FREJA). I. Overview: Inner∼ 1000 au Structures of Prestellar/Protostellar Cores in Taurus

K Tokuda, K Fujishiro, K Tachihara… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We have performed survey-type observations in 1 mm continuum and molecular lines
toward dense cores (32 prestellar+ 7 protostellar) with an average density of≳ 10 5 cm− 3 in …

Anomalous HCN emission from warm giant molecular clouds

JR Goicoechea, F Lique, MG Santa-Maria - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is considered a good tracer of the dense molecular gas that
serves as fuel for star formation. However, recent large-scale surveys of giant molecular …

Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS)-VI. A sulphur journey across star-forming regions: study of thioformaldehyde emission

G Esplugues, A Fuente, D Navarro-Almaida… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. In the context of the IRAM 30 m Large Program Gas phase Elemental abundances
in Molecular CloudS (GEMS), we present a study of thioformaldehyde (H 2 CS) and its …

First BISTRO observations of the dark cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: the role of the magnetic field in the earliest stages of low-mass star formation

D Ward-Thompson, J Karoly, K Pattle… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present BISTRO Survey 850 μm dust emission polarization observations of the L1495A-
B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope …