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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 Sep 11, 2009 3:43 AM by Joao Alves
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 Sep 11, 2009 3:13 AM by Joao Alves
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 Sep 11, 2009 2:54 AM by Joao Alves
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 Sep 11, 2009 3:24 AM by Joao Alves
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 Sep 9, 2009 3:42 AM by Joao Alves

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Dark cloud Barnard 68, a star "embryo". My main research
interests are star and planet formation across the Universe.