João Alves's Research: Latest news
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The California Molecular Cloud
What looks like the great Orion molecular cloud, competing with it as the largest and most massive GMC in the solar neighborhood, and it's at the same distance? The ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:14 PM by Joao Alves
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Uncovering the kiloparsec-scale stellar ring of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)
Can you undress a galaxy? Here's how. These are the first steps of a promising new technique explored during the PhD thesis of Jouni Kainulainen and Yuri Beletsky. And ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:47 PM by Joao Alves
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Dense Cores in The Pipe Nebula: An Improved Core Mass Function
Improved determination of the CMF of the Pipe Nebula making use of C18O observations to differentiate between single cores with internal structure and blends of two or more ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:18 PM by Joao Alves
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A Very Large Telescope/NACO Study of Star Formation in the Massive Embedded Cluster RCW 38
VLT Adaptive Optics imaging of a very young cluster still embedded in its mother cloud. The cluster is the poster child of embedded clusters in both Hemispheres, with a centrally ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:03 PM by Joao Alves
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The Inevitable Future of the Starless Core Barnard 68
Radical view of the Barnard 68 cloud as a merger of two dense cores. Andi's simulations predict that the future gravitational collapse is already detectable on the outer surface ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 3:29 PM by Joao Alves
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On the fidelity of the core mass function
A careful analysis on the recoverability and completeness limits of dense core mass functions (CMF) for extinction data in general, presenting simulations of the Pipe Nebula. Is the Alves et ...
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:25 PM by Joao Alves
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Star Formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (Space Telescope) and Beyond
The summary of the Symposium 9 of JENAM 2008 that took place in Vienna can be found here. Many thanks to all participants for the memorable event!
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:11 PM by Joao Alves
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No evidence for mass segregation in young clusters
Joana Ascenso's last PhD paper is now out. Time to rethink the claim for mass segregation in young clusters, plus a potentially important discovery.
Posted Mar 22, 2010 5:02 PM by Joao Alves
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Pipe Nebula Review
The Pipe Nebula review paper that will be part of the upcoming Reipurth's "Handbook of Star Formation" can be found here. The review covers research done until mid 2008
Posted Mar 22, 2010 4:35 PM by Joao Alves
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