In the past twenty years, the reconnaissance of 12CO and 13CO emission in the Milky Way
by single-dish millimeter-wave telescopes has expanded our view and understanding of …

Recent studies of the nearest star-forming clouds of the Galaxy at submillimeter wavelengths
with the Herschel Space Observatory have provided us with unprecedented images of the …

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 …

Within ten nearby (d< 450 pc) Gould belt molecular clouds we evaluate statistically the
relative orientation between the magnetic field projected on the plane of sky, inferred from …

Context. Molecular filaments have received special attention recently thanks to new
observational results on their properties. In particular, our early analysis of filament …

Formation of stars is now believed to be tightly linked to the dynamical evolution of
interstellar filaments in which they form. In this paper we analyze the density structure and …

We present a detailed study of the Orion B molecular cloud complex (d~ 400 pc), which was
imaged with the PACS and SPIRE photometric cameras at wavelengths from 70 to 500 μm …

Molecular clouds are a fundamental ingredient of galaxies: they are the channels that
transform the diffuse gas into stars. The detailed process of how they do it is not completely …

Herschel has shown that filamentary structures are ubiquitous in star-forming regions, in
particular in nearby molecular clouds associated with Gould's Belt. High dynamic range far …

Are the initial conditions for clustered star formation the same as for non-clustered star
formation? To investigate the initial gas properties in young proto-clusters we carried out a …