Recent results

PRESS RELEASE

  • Birth of a star quartet: An international team of researchers has discovered something extraordinary in space: a new star system forming from parts of a filamentary gas cloud.
    Press release ETHZ (12 march 2015), Nature paper by Jaime Pineda et al.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • “Sub-stellar fragmentation in self-gravitating fluids with a major phase transition“, Andreas Füglistaler, Daniel Pfenniger, 2015, A&A, in press, preprint here
  • “Hyper: Hybrid photometry and extraction routine“, Traficante, A.; Fuller, G. A.; Pineda, J. E.; Pezzuto, S., 2015, A&A, 574, A119 (2015A&A…574A.119T)
  • “The formation of a quadruple star system with wide separation“, Jaime E. Pineda,
    Stella S. R. Offner, Richard J. Parker, Héctor G. Arce, Alyssa A. Goodman, Paola Caselli, Gary A. Fuller, Tyler L. Bourke, Stuartt A. Corder, 2015, Nature, 518, 213
  • “Hyper: Hybrid photometry and extraction routine“, Traficante, A.; Fuller, G. A.; Pineda, J. E.; Pezzuto, S., 2015, A&A, 574, A119 (2015A&A…574A.119T)
  • “ALMA detection of [CII] 158 micron emission from a strongly lensed z=2 star-forming galaxy“, D. Schaerer, F. Boone, T. Jones, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, P. Sklias, M. Zamojski, A. Cava, J. Richard, R. Ellis, T.D. Rawle, E. Egami, F. Combes, 2015, A&A Letters, 576, L2
  • “A lower fragmentation mass scale for clumps in high redshift galaxies: a systematic numerical study“, Valentina Tamburello, Lucio Mayer, Sijing Shen, James Wadsley, 2014, MNRAS, submitted, (2014arXiv1412.3319T)
  • “Molecular gas content in strongly-lensed z~1.5-3 star-forming galaxies with low IR luminosities“, Dessauges-Zavadsky, M.; Zamojski, M.; Schaerer, D.; Combes, F.; Egami, E.; Swinbank, A. M.; Richard, J.; Sklias, P.; Rawle, T. D.; Rex, M.; and 3 coauthors, A&A, in press, (2014arXiv1408.0816D)
  • “Deuteration and evolution in the massive star formation process: the role of surface chemistry”, Fontani, F.; Busquet, G.; Palau, Aina; Caselli, P.; A.; Sanchez-Monge; Tan, J. C.; Audard, M., (2014arXiv1410.7232F)
  • “Revealing H2D+ Depletion and Compact Structure in Starless and Protostellar Cores with ALMA“, Friesen, R. K.; Di Francesco, J.; Bourke, T. L.; Caselli, P.; Jørgensen, J. K.; Pineda, J. E.; Wong, M., 2014, ApJ, 797, 27 (2014ApJ…797…27F)
  • “The star formation activity in cosmic voids” Ricciardelli, E.; Cava, A.; Varela, J.; Quilis, V., 2014, MNRAS, 445, 4045 (2014MNRAS.445.4045R)
  • “Episodic star formation in a group of LAEs at z = 5.07“, Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.; González-Martín, O.; Castro Rodríguez, N.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Mas-Hesse, J. M.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Cava, A.; Cardiel, N.; Cabrera Lavers, A.; Gallego, J.; and 3 coauthors, 2014, MNRAS, 444, L68 (2014MNRAS.444L..68R)
  • “Physical and Chemical Characteristics of L1689-SMM16, an Oscillating Prestellar Core in Ophiuchus“, Chitsazzadeh, S.; Di Francesco, J.; Schnee, S.; Friesen, R. K.; Shimajiri, Y.; Langston, G. I.; Sadavoy, S. I.; Bourke, T. L.; Keto, E. R.; Pineda, J. E.; and 2 coauthors, 2014, ApJ, 790, 129 (2014ApJ…790..129C)
  • “The Darkest Shadows: Deep Mid-infrared Extinction Mapping of a Massive Protocluster“, Butler, Michael J.; Tan, Jonathan C.; Kainulainen, Jouni, 2014, ApJ, 782, L30 (2014ApJ…782L..30B)
  • “Kiloparsec-Scale Simulations of Star Formation in Disk Galaxies II. Structure and Dynamics of Filaments and Clumps in Giant Molecular Clouds“, Butler, Michael J.; Tan, Jonathan C.; Van Loo, Sven, 2014, ApJ, submitted (2014arXiv1410.5541B)