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    • A 100 pc elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the galactic center 

      Molinari, S.; Bally, J.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Compiegne, M.; Bernard, J.P.; Paradis, D.; Martin, P.; Testi, L.; Barlow, M.; Moore, T.; Plume, R.; Swinyard, B.; Zavagno, A.; Calzoletti, L.; M. Di Giorgio, A.; Elia, D.; Faustini, F.; Natoli, P.; Pestalozzi, Michele; Pezzuto, S.; Piacentini, F.; Polenta, G.; Polychroni, D.; Schisano, E.; Traficante, A.; Veneziani, M.; Battersby, C.; Burton, M.; Carey, S.; Fukui, Y.; Li, J.Z.; Lord, S.D.; Morgan, L.; Motte, F.; Schuller, F.; Stringfellow, G.S.; Tan, J.C.; Thompson, Mark; Ward-Thompson, D.; White, G.; Umana, G. (2011)
      Thermal images of cold dust in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way, obtained with the far-infrared cameras on board the Herschel satellite, reveal a ~3 × 107 M ring of dense and cold clouds orbiting the Galactic ...
    • Characteristic scale of star formation. I. Clump formation efficiency on local scales 

      Eden, D. J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Plume, R.; Rigby, A. J.; Urquhart, J. S.; Marsh, K. A.; Peñaloza, C. H.; Clark, P. C.; Smith, M. W. L.; Tahani, K.; Ragan, S. E.; Thompson, M. A.; Johnstone, D.; Parsons, H.; Rani, R. (2020-10-16)
      We have used the ratio of column densities (CDR) derived independently from the 850-$\mu$m continuum JCMT Plane Survey (JPS) and the $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O $(J=3-2)$ Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) to produce ...
    • CHIMPS2 : Survey description and $^{12}$CO emission in the Galactic Centre 

      Eden, D. J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Currie, M. J.; Rigby, A. J.; Rosolowsky, E.; Su, Y.; Kim, Kee-Tae; Parsons, H.; Morata, O.; Chen, H. -R.; Minamidani, T.; Park, Geumsook; Ragan, S. E.; Urquhart, J. S.; Rani, R.; Tahani, K.; Billington, S. J.; Deb, S.; Figura, C.; Fujiyoshi, T.; Joncas, G.; Liao, L. W.; Liu, T.; Ma, H.; Tuan-Anh, P.; Yun, Hyeong-Sik; Zhang, S.; Zhu, M.; Henshaw, J. D.; Longmore, S. N.; Kobayashi, M. I. N.; Thompson, M. A.; Ao, Y.; Campbell-White, J.; Ching, T. -C.; Chung, E. J.; Duarte-Cabral, A.; Fich, M.; Gao, Y.; Graves, S. F.; Jiang, X. -J.; Kemper, F.; Kuan, Y. -J.; Kwon, W.; Lee, C. W.; Lee, J. -E.; Liu, M.; Penaloza, C. H.; Peretto, N.; Phuong, N. T.; Pineda, J. E.; Plume, R.; Puspitaningrum, E.; Samal, M. R.; Soam, A.; Sun, Y.; Tang, X. D.; Traficante, A.; White, G. J.; Yan, C. -H.; Yang, A.; Yuan, J.; Yue, N.; Bemis, A.; Brunt, C. M.; Chen, Z.; Cho, J.; Clark, P. C.; Cyganowski, C. J.; Friberg, P.; Fuller, G. A.; Han, I.; Hoare, M. G.; Izumi, N.; Kim, H. -J.; Kim, J.; Kim, S.; Koch, E. W.; Kuno, N.; Lacialle, K. M.; Lai, S. -P.; Lee, H. Lee Y. -H.; Li, D. L.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mairs, S.; Oka, T.; Pan, Z.; Qian, L.; Scicluna, P.; Shi, C. -S.; Shi, H.; Srinivasan, S.; Tan, Q. -H.; Thomas, H. S.; Torii, K.; Trejo, A.; Umemoto, T.; Violino, G.; Wallstrom, S.; Wang, B.; Wu, Y.; Yuan, L.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, M.; Zhou, C.; Zhou, J. J. (2020-09-10)
      The latest generation of Galactic-plane surveys is enhancing our ability to study the effects of galactic environment upon the process of star formation. We present the first data from CO Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane ...
    • CHIMPS: Physical properties of molecular clumps across the inner Galaxy 

      Rigby, A. J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Eden, D. J.; Urquhart, J. S.; Ragan, S. E.; Peretto, N.; Plume, R.; Thompson, M. A.; Currie, M. J.; Park, G. (2019-12-01)
      The latest generation of high-angular-resolution unbiased Galactic plane surveys in molecular-gas tracers are enabling the interiors of molecular clouds to be studied across a range of environments. The CHIMPS survey ...
    • CHIMPS: the 13CO/C18O (J = 3 to 2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey 

      Rigby, A.J.; Moore, T.J.T.; Plume, R.; Eden, D.J.; Urquhart, J.S.; Thompson, M.A.; Mottram, J.C.; Brunt, C.M.; Butner, H. M.; Dempsey, J. T.; Gibson, S.J.; Hatchell, J.; Jenness, T.; Kuno, N.; Longmore, S.N.; Morgan, L.K.; Polychroni, D.; Thomas, H.; White, G.J.; Zhu, M. (2016-03-01)
      We present the 13CO/C18O (J = 3 → 2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey (CHIMPS) which has been carried out using the Heterodyne Array Receiver Program on the 15 m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. The ...
    • Clouds, filaments, and protostars : The Herschel Hi-GAL Milky Way 

      Molinari, S.; Swinyard, B.; Bally, J.; Barlow, M.; Bernard, J.-P.; Martin, P.; Moore, T.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Plume, R.; Testi, L.; Zavagno, A.; Abergel, A.; Ali, B.; Anderson, L.; André, P.; Baluteau, J.-P.; Battersby, C.; Beltrán, M. T.; Benedettini, M.; Billot, N.; Blommaert, J.; Bontemps, S.; Boulanger, F.; Brand, J.; Brunt, C.; Burton, M.; Calzoletti, L.; Carey, S.; Caselli, P.; Cesaroni, R.; Cernicharo, J.; Chakrabarti, S.; Chrysostomou, A.; Cohen, M.; Compiegne, M.; de Bernardis, P.; de Gasperis, G.; di Giorgio, A.M.; Elia, D.; Faustini, F.; Flagey, N.; Fukui, Y.; Fuller, G.A.; Ganga, K.; Garcia-Lario, P.; Glenn, J.; Goldsmith, P.F.; Griffin, M.; Hoare, M.; Huang, M.; Ikhenaode, D.; Joblin, C.; Joncas, G.; Juvela, M.; Kirk, J.M.; Lagache, G.; Li, J.Z.; Lim, T.L.; Lord, S.D.; Marengo, M.; Marshall, D.J.; Masi, S.; Massi, F.; Matsuura, M.; Minier, V.; Miville-Deschênes, M.-A.; Montier, L.A.; Morgan, L.; Motte, F.; Mottram, J.C.; Müller, T.G.; Natoli, P.; Neves, J.; Olmi, L.; Paladini, R.; Paradis, D.; Parsons, H.; Peretto, N.; Pestalozzi, M.; Pezzuto, S.; Piacentini, F.; Piazzo, L.; Polychroni, D.; Pomarès, M.; Popescu, C. C.; Reach, W.T.; Ristorcelli, I.; Robitaille, J.-F.; Robitaille, T.; Rodón, J.A.; Roy, A.; Royer, P.; Russeil, D.; Saraceno, P.; Sauvage, M.; Schilke, P.; Schisano, E.; Schneider, N.; Schuller, F.; Schulz, B.; Sibthorpe, B.; Smith, H. A.; Smith, M.D.; Spinoglio, L.; Stamatellos, D.; Strafella, F.; Stringfellow, G.S.; Sturm, E.; Taylor, R.; Thompson, Mark; Traficante, A.; Tuffs, R. J.; Umana, G.; Valenziano, L.; Vavrek, R.; Veneziani, M.; Viti, S.; Waelkens, C.; Ward-Thompson, D.; White, G.; Wilcock, L.A.; Wyrowski, F.; Yorke, H.W.; Zhang, Q. (2010-07-01)
      We present the first results from the science demonstration phase for the Hi-GAL survey, the Herschel key program that will map the inner Galactic plane of the Milky Way in 5 bands. We outline our data reduction strategy ...
    • Cores in infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) seen in the Hi-GAL survey between l=300 degrees and 330 degrees 

      Wilcock, L.A.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Kirk, J.M.; Stamatellos, D.; Whitworth, A.; Elia, D.; Fuller, G.A.; DiGiorgio, A.; Griffin, M.J.; Molinari, S.; Martin, P.; Mottram, J. C.; Peretto, N.; Pestalozzi, M.; Schisano, E.; Plume, R.; Smith, H. A.; Thompson, M. A. (2012-05)
      We have used data taken as part of the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane survey (Hi-GAL) to study 3171 infrared dark cloud (IRDC) candidates that were identified in the mid-IR (8 mu m) by Spitzer (we refer to these as ...
    • Extreme star formation in the Milky Way: luminosity distributions of young stellar objects in W49A and W51 

      Eden, D. J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Urquhart, J. S.; Elia, D.; Plume, R.; Konig, C.; Baldeschi, A.; Schisano, E.; Rigby, A. J.; Morgan, L. K.; Thompson, M. A. (2018-07-01)
      We have compared the star-formation properties of the W49A and W51 regions by using far-infrared data from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) and 850-μm observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope ...
    • The Hi-GAL compact source catalogue – I. The physical properties of the clumps in the inner Galaxy (−71. ◦ 0 < ℓ < 67.◦ 0) 

      Elia, Davide; Molinari, S.; Schisano, E.; Pestalozzi, M.; Pezzuto, S.; Merello, M.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Moore, T. J.T.; Russeil, D.; Mottram, J.~C.; Paladini, R.; Strafella, F.; Benedettini, M.; Bernard, J.P.; Giorgio, Anna Di; Eden, D.~J.; Fukui, Y.; Plume, R.; Bally, J.; Martin, Gary P; Ragan, S. E.; Jaffa, S. E.; Motte, F.; Olmi, L.; Schneider, N.; Testi, L.; Wyrowski, F.; Zavagno, A.; Calzoletti, L.; Faustini, F.; Natoli, P.; Palmeirim, P.; Piacentini, F.; Piazzo, L.; Pilbratt, G. L.; Polychroni, D.; Baldeschi, A.; Beltrán, M.~T.; Billot, N.; Cambrésy, L.; Cesaroni, R.; García-Lario, P.; Hoare, M.G.; Huang, M.; Joncas, G.; Liu, S.~J.; Maiolo, B. M. T.; Marsh, K. A.; Maruccia, Y.; Mège, P.; Peretto, N.; Rygl, K. L. J.; Schilke, P.; Thompson, M. A.; Traficante, A.; Umana, G.; Veneziani, M.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Whitworth, A. P.; Arab, H.; Bandieramonte, M.; Becciani, U.; Brescia, M.; Buemi, C.; Bufano, F.; Butora, R.; Cavuoti, S.; Costa, Ana Margarida; Fiorellino, E.; Hajnal, A.; Hayakawa, T.; Kacsuk, P.; Leto, P.; Li Causi, G.; Marchili, N.; Martinavarro-Armengol, S.; Mercurio, A.; Molinaro, M.; Riccio, G.; Sano, H.; Sciacca, E.; Tachihara, K.; Torii, K.; Trigilio, C.; Vitello, F.; Yamamoto, H. (2017-10-11)
      Hi-GAL (Herschel InfraRed Galactic Plane Survey) is a large-scale survey of the Galactic plane, performed with Herschel in five infrared continuum bands between 70 and 500 µm. We present a band-merged catalogue of spatially ...
    • Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey : photometric maps and compact source catalogues. First data release for Inner Milky Way: +68°> l > -70° 

      Molinari, S.; Schisano, E.; Elia, D.; Pestalozzi, M.; Traficante, A.; Pezzuto, S.; Swinyard, B. M.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Bally, J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Plume, R.; Zavagno, A.; Giorgio, A. M. di; Liu, S. J.; Pilbratt, G. L.; Mottram, J. C.; Russeil, D.; Piazzo, L.; Veneziani, M.; Benedettini, M.; Calzoletti, L.; Faustini, F.; Natoli, P.; Piacentini, F.; Merello, M.; Palmese, A.; Grande, R. Del; Polychroni, D.; Rygl, K. L. J.; Polenta, G.; Barlow, M. J.; Bernard, J. -P.; Martin, P. G.; Testi, L.; Ali, B.; Andrè, P.; Beltrán, M. T.; Billot, N.; Brunt, C.; Carey, S.; Cesaroni, R.; Compiègne, M.; Eden, D.; Fukui, Y.; Garcia-Lario, P.; Hoare, M. G.; Huang, M.; Joncas, G.; Lim, T. L.; Lord, S. D.; Martinavarro-Armengol, S.; Motte, F.; Paladini, R.; Paradis, D.; Peretto, N.; Robitaille, T.; Schilke, P.; Schneider, N.; Schulz, B.; Sibthorpe, B.; Strafella, F.; Thompson, M. A.; Umana, G.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Wyrowski, F. (2016-07-04)
      (Abridged) We present the first public release of high-quality data products (DR1) from Hi-GAL, the {\em Herschel} infrared Galactic Plane Survey. Hi-GAL is the keystone of a suite of continuum Galactic Plane surveys from ...
    • Hi-GAL: The Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey 

      Molinari, S.; Swinyard, B.; Bally, J.; Barlow, M.; Bernard, J.P.; Martin, P.; Moore, T.; Noriega-Crespo, A.; Plume, R.; Testi, L.; Zavagno, A.; Abergel, A.; Ali, B.; André, P.; Baluteau, J.-P.; Benedettini, M.; Berné, O.; Billot, N. P.; Blommaert, J.; Bontemps, S.; Boulanger, F.; Brand, J.; Brunt, C.; Burton, M.; Campeggio, L.; Carey, S.; Caselli, P.; Cesaroni, R.; Cernicharo, J.; Chakrabarti, S.; Chrysostomou, A.; Codella, C.; Cohen, M.; Compiegne, M.; Davis, C.J.; de Bernardis, P.; de Gasperis, G.; Di Francesco, J.; Di Giorgio, A. M.; Elia, D.; Faustini, F.; Fischera, J.F.; Fukui, Y.; Fuller, G.A.; Ganga, K.; Garcia-Lario, P.; Giard, M.; Giardino, G.; Glenn, J.; Goldsmith, P.; Griffin, M.; Hoare, M.; Huang, M.; Jiang, B.; Joblin, C.; Joncas, G.; Juvela, M.; Kirk, J.; Lagache, G.; Li, J.Z.; Lim, T.L.; Lord, S.D.; Lucas, P.W.; Maiolo, B.; Marengo, M.; Marshall, D.; Masi, S.; Massi, F.; Matsuura, M.; Meny, C.; Minier, V.; Miville-Deschênes, M.-A.; Montier, L.; Motte, F.; Müller, T.G.; Natoli, P.; Neves, J.; Olmi, L.; Paladini, R.; Paradis, D.; Pestalozzi, M.; Pezzuto, S.; Piacentini, F.; Pomarès, M.; Popescu, C. C.; Reach, W.T.; Richer, J.; Ristorcelli, I.; Roy, A.; Royer, P.; Russeil, D.; Saraceno, P.; Sauvage, M.; Schilke, P.; Schneider-Bontemps, N.; Schuller, F.; Schultz, B.; Shepherd, D.S.; Sibthorpe, B.; Smith, H.A.; Smith, M.D.; Spinoglio, L.; Stamatellos, D.; Strafella, F.; Stringfellow, G.; Sturm, E.; Taylor, R.; Thompson, M.A.; Tuffs, R. J.; Umana, G.; Valenziano, L.; Vavrek, R.; Viti, S.; Waelkens, C.; Ward-Thompson, D.; White, G.; Wyrowski, F.; Yorke, H.W.; Zhang, Q. (2010-03-01)
      Hi-GAL, the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey, is an Open Time Key Project of the Herschel Space Observatory. It will make an unbiased photometric survey of the inner Galactic plane by mapping a 2° wide strip in the ...
    • The initial conditions of high-mass star formation : radiative transfer models of IRDCs seen in the Herschel Hi-GAL survey 

      Wilcock, L.A.; Kirk, J.M.; Stamatellos, D.; Ward-Thompson, D.; Whitworth, A.; Battersby, C.; Brunt, C.; Fuller, G.A.; Griffin, M.; Molinari, S.; Martin, P.; Mottram, J.C.; Peretto, N.; Plume, R.; Smith, H.A.; Thompson, M.A. (2011)
      The densest infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) may represent the earliest observable stage of high-mass star formation. These clouds are very cold, hence they emit mainly at far-infrared and sub-mm wavelengths. For the first ...
    • The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Spectral Legacy Survey 

      Plume, R.; Fuller, G.A.; Helmich, F.; van der Tak, F.F.S.; Roberts, H.; Bowey, J.; Buckle, J.; Butner, H.; Caux, E.; Ceccarelli, C.; van Dishoeck, E.F.; Friberg, P.; Gibb, A.G.; Hatchell, J.; Hogerheijde, M.R.; Matthews, H.; Millar, T.J.; Mitchell, G.; Moore, T.J.T.; Ossenkopf, V.; Rawlings, J.M.C.; Richer, J.; Roellig, M.; Schilke, P.; Spaans, M.; Tielens, A.G.G.M.; Thompson, M.A.; Viti, S.; Weferling, B.; White, G.J.; Wouterloot, J.; Yates, J.A.; Zhu, M. (2007)
      Stars form in the densest, coldest, most quiescent regions of molecular clouds. Molecules provide the only probes that can reveal the dynamics, physics, chemistry, and evolution of these regions, but our understanding of ...
    • The JCMT Plane Survey : First complete data release - emission maps and compact source catalogue 

      Eden, D.~J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Plume, R.; Urquhart, J.S.; Thompson, M. A.; Parsons, H.; Dempsey, J. T.; Rigby, A.~J.; Morgan, L. K.; Thomas, H. S.; Berry, D J; Buckle, J.; Brunt, Christopher M.; Butner, H. M.; Carretero, D.; Chrysostomou, A.; Currie, M. J.; deVilliers, H.~M.; Fich, M.; Gibb, A. G.; Hoare, M.G.; Jenness, T.; Manser, G.; Mottram, J.~C.; Natario, C.; Olguin, F.; Peretto, N.; Pestalozzi, M.; Polychroni, D.; Redman, R.~O.; Salji, C.; Summers, L.~J.; Tahani, K.; Traficante, A.; diFrancesco, J.; Evans, A.; Fuller, G. A.; Johnstone, D.; Joncas, G.; Longmore, S.~N.; Martin, Gary P; Richer, J. S.; Weferling, B.; White, Glenn J.; Zhu, M. (2017-08-01)
      We present the first data release of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Plane Survey (JPS), the JPS Public Release 1 (JPSPR1). JPS is an 850-um continuum survey of six fields in the northern inner Galactic Plane in ...
    • The JCMT Plane Survey: early results from the ell = 30deg field 

      Moore, T.~J.~T.; Plume, R.; Thompson, M.~A.; Parsons, H.; Urquhart, J.~S.; Eden, D.~J.; Dempsey, J.~T.; Morgan, L.~K.; Thomas, H.~S.; Buckle, J.; Brunt, C.~M.; Butner, H.; Carretero, D.; Chrysostomou, A.; deVilliers, H.~M.; Fich, M.; Hoare, M.~G.; Manser, G.; Mottram, J.~C.; Natario, C.; Olguin, F.; Peretto, N.; Polychroni, D.; Redman, R.~O.; Rigby, A.~J.; Salji, C.; Summers, L.~J.; Berry, D.; Currie, M.~J.; Jenness, T.; Pestalozzi, M.; Traficante, A.; Bastien, P.; diFrancesco, J.; Davis, C.~J.; Evans, A.; Friberg, P.; Fuller, G.~A.; Gibb, A.~G.; Gibson, S.; Hill, T.; Johnstone, D.; Joncas, G.; Longmore, S.~N.; Lumsden, S.~L.; Martin, P.~G.; Lu'o'ng, Q.~N.; Pineda, J.~E.; Purcell, C.; Richer, J.~S.; Schieven, G.~H.; Shipman, R.; Spaans, M.; Taylor, A.~R.; Viti, S.; Weferling, B.; White, G.~J.; Zhu, M. (2015-11-11)
      We present early results from the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) Plane Survey (JPS), which has surveyed the northern inner Galactic plane between longitudes ℓ = 7° and ℓ = 63° in the 850-μm continuum with SCUBA-2 ...
    • Star formation scales and efficiency in Galactic spiral arms 

      Eden, D.~J.; Moore, T.~J.~T.; Urquhart, J.~S.; Elia, D.; Plume, R.; Rigby, A.~J.; Thompson, M.~A. (2015-09-01)
      We positionally match a sample of infrared-selected young stellar objects, identified by combining the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and Herschel Space ...