The molecular cloud lifecycle

M Chevance, JMD Kruijssen… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their stellar offspring are the building blocks of galaxies.
The physical characteristics of GMCs and their evolution are tightly connected to galaxy …

Submillimeter and far-infrared polarimetric observations of magnetic fields in star-forming regions

K Pattle, L Fissel - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Observations of star-forming regions by the current and upcoming generation of
submillimeter polarimeters will shed new light on the evolution of magnetic fields over the …

The formation of massive molecular filaments and massive stars triggered by a magnetohydrodynamic shock wave

T Inoue, P Hennebelle, Y Fukui… - Publications of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations suggest an that intensive molecular cloud collision can trigger massive
star/cluster formation. The most important physical process caused by the collision is a …

PDFchem: A new fast method to determine ISM properties and infer environmental parameters using probability distributions

TG Bisbas, EF van Dishoeck, CY Hu… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) is of
fundamental importance to understand the star-formation process. Although there exist …

Photodissociation region diagnostics across galactic environments

TG Bisbas, JC Tan, KEI Tanaka - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present three-dimensional astrochemical simulations and synthetic observations of
magnetized, turbulent, self-gravitating molecular clouds. We explore various galactic …

Cosmic Evolution of Gas and Star Formation

N Scoville, A Faisst, J Weaver, S Toft… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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An ALMA View of Molecular Filaments in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I. The Formation of High-mass Stars and Pillars in the N159E-Papillon Nebula Triggered by a …

Y Fukui, K Tokuda, K Saigo, R Harada… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ALMA observations of CO isotopes and 1.3 mm continuum emission toward the
N159E-Papillon Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The spatial resolution is 0 25 …

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

T Liu, PS Li, M Juvela, KT Kim, NJ Evans II… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic field plays a crucial role in shaping molecular clouds and regulating star formation,
yet the complete information on the magnetic field is not well constrained owing to the …

CARMA-NRO Orion Survey: unbiased survey of dense cores and core mass functions in Orion A

H Takemura, F Nakamura, HG Arce… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The mass distribution of dense cores is a potential key to understanding the process of star
formation. Applying dendrogram analysis to the CARMA-NRO Orion C 18 O (J= 1–0) data …

Gmc collisions as triggers of star formation. iii. density and magnetically regulated star formation

B Wu, JC Tan, D Christie, F Nakamura… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We study giant molecular cloud (GMC) collisions and their ability to trigger star cluster
formation. We further develop our three-dimensional magnetized, turbulent, colliding GMC …