• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stac900
• Corpus ID: 239616052

Kinematics of the molecular interstellar medium probed by Gaia: steep velocity dispersion-size relation, isotropic turbulence, and location-dependent energy dissipation

@article{Zhou2022KinematicsOT,
  title={Kinematics of the molecular interstellar medium probed by Gaia: steep velocity dispersion-size relation, isotropic turbulence, and location-dependent energy dissipation},
  author={Ji-Xuan Zhou and Guangxing Li and Bingqiu Chen},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2022}
}

• Ji-Xuan Zhou, Guangxing Li, Bingqiu Chen
• Published 22 October 2021
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The evolution of the molecular interstellar medium is controlled by processes such as turbulence, gravity, stellar feedback, and Galactic shear. AL a part of the ISM-6D project, using Gaia astrometric measurements towards a sample of young stellar objects (YSOs), we study the morphology and kinematic structure of the associated molecular gas. We identify 150 YSO associations with distance $d \lesssim 3 \,\,\rm kpc$. The YSO associations are elongated, with a median aspect ratio of 1.97, and…