An ALMA study of the Orion Integral Filament-I. Evidence for narrow fibers in a massive cloud

A Hacar, M Tafalla, J Forbrich, J Alves… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Aim. We have investigated the gas organization within the paradigmatic Integral Shape
Filament (ISF) in Orion in order to decipher whether or not all filaments are bundles of fibers …

ATOMS: ALMA Three-millimeter Observations of Massive Star-forming regions–XI. From inflow to infall in hub-filament systems

JW Zhou, T Liu, NJ Evans, G Garay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the presence of hub-filament systems in a large sample of 146 active proto-
clusters, using H13CO+ J= 1-0 molecular line data obtained from the ATOMS survey. We …

Filamentary fragmentation and accretion in high-mass star-forming molecular clouds

X Lu, Q Zhang, HB Liu, P Sanhueza… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in high-mass star-forming molecular clouds. Their
relation with high-mass star formation is still to be understood. Here we report interferometric …

Gravity drives the evolution of infrared dark hubs: JVLA observations of SDC13

GM Williams, N Peretto, A Avison… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Converging networks of interstellar filaments, that is hubs, have been recently
linked to the formation of stellar clusters and massive stars. Understanding the relationship …

Formation of the Musca filament: evidence for asymmetries in the accretion flow due to a cloud–cloud collision

L Bonne, S Bontemps, N Schneider, SD Clarke… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Dense molecular filaments are ubiquituous in the interstellar medium, yet their
internal physical conditions and the role of gravity, turbulence, the magnetic field, radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving the fragmentation of high line-mass filaments with ALMA: the integral shaped filament in Orion A

J Kainulainen, AM Stutz, T Stanke… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We study the fragmentation of the nearest high line-mass filament, the integral shaped
filament (ISF, line-mass~ 400 M⊙ pc-1) in the Orion A molecular cloud. We have observed a …

Forming spectroscopic massive protobinaries by disc fragmentation

DMA Meyer, R Kuiper, W Kley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The surroundings of massive protostars constitute an accretion disc which has numerically
been shown to be subject to fragmentation and responsible for luminous accretion-driven …

Self-gravitating filament formation from shocked flows: velocity gradients across filaments

CY Chen, LG Mundy, EC Ostriker… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In typical environments of star-forming clouds, converging supersonic turbulence generates
shock-compressed regions, and can create strongly magnetized sheet-like layers …

Filamentary mass accretion towards the high-mass protobinary system G11. 92–0.61 MM2

S Zhang, CJ Cyganowski, JD Henshaw… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present deep, sub-arcsecond (2000 au) resolution ALMA 0.82-mm observations of the
former high-mass prestellar core candidate G11. 92–0.61 MM2, recently shown to be an 500 …

SPYGLASS. II. The multigenerational and multiorigin star formation history of Cepheus far north

R Kerr, AL Kraus, SJ Murphy… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Young stellar populations provide a record of past star formation, and by establishing their
members' dynamics and ages, it is possible to reconstruct the full history of star formation …