Star formation near the Sun is driven by expansion of the Local Bubble

C Zucker, AA Goodman, J Alves, S Bialy, M Foley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
For decades we have known that the Sun lies within the Local Bubble, a cavity of low-
density, high-temperature plasma surrounded by a shell of cold, neutral gas and dust …

The Local Bubble Is a Local Chimney: A New Model from 3D Dust Mapping

TJ O'Neill, C Zucker, AA Goodman… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Leveraging a high-resolution 3D dust map of the solar neighborhood from Edenhofer et al.,
we derive a new 3D model for the dust-traced surface of the Local Bubble, the supernova …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: The Dust Filament Network of NGC 628 and Its Relation to Star Formation Activity

DA Thilker, JC Lee, S Deger, AT Barnes… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract PHANGS–JWST mid-infrared (MIR) imaging of nearby spiral galaxies has revealed
ubiquitous filaments of dust emission in intricate detail. We present a pilot study to …

Pulsar scintillation through thick and thin: bow shocks, bubbles, and the broader interstellar medium

SK Ocker, JM Cordes, S Chatterjee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Observations of pulsar scintillation are among the few astrophysical probes of very small-
scale (≲ au) phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, characterization of …

3D magnetic-field morphology of the Perseus molecular cloud

M Tahani, W Lupypciw, J Glover, R Plume… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Despite recent observational and theoretical advances in mapping the magnetic
fields associated with molecular clouds, their three-dimensional (3D) morphology remains …

The Radcliffe Wave is oscillating

R Konietzka, AA Goodman, C Zucker, A Burkert… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Our Sun lies within 300 parsecs of the 2.7-kiloparsecs-long sinusoidal chain of dense gas
clouds known as the Radcliffe Wave. The structure's wave-like shape was discovered using …

The three-dimensional structure of galactic molecular cloud complexes out to 2.5 kpc

TE Dharmawardena, CAL Bailer-Jones… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of Galactic molecular clouds is important for
understanding how clouds are affected by processes such as turbulence and magnetic …

Three-dimensional magnetic fields of molecular clouds

M Tahani - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To investigate the role of magnetic fields in the evolution of the interstellar medium,
formation and evolution of molecular clouds, and ultimately the formation of stars, their three …

Numerical studies on the link between radioisotopic signatures on Earth and the formation of the Local Bubble-II. Advanced modelling of interstellar 26Al, 53Mn, 60Fe …

MM Schulreich, J Feige, D Breitschwerdt - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Measurements of long-lived radioisotopes, which have grown rapidly in quantity
and sensitivity over the last few years, provide a means, completely independent of other …

Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized ISM: PASIPHAE's line-of-sight inversion method

V Pelgrims, GV Panopoulou, K Tassis… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the first Bayesian method for tomographic decomposition of the plane-of-sky
orientation of the magnetic field with the use of stellar polarimetry and distance. This …