"We are made of star stuff."

by Carl Edward Sagan



Publications:

A complete list of publications can be found via ADS

Discovery of widespread non-metastable ammonia masers in the Milky Way
Yan, Y. T. ; Henkel, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Wilson, T. L. ; Wootten, A. ; Gong, Y. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Yang, W. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Kraus, A. ; Winkel, B., 2024, A&A, accepted

Magnetically Aligned Striations in the L914 Filamentary Cloud
Sun, Li ; Chen, Xuepeng ; Fang, Min ; Zhang, Shaobo ; Gong, Yan ; Feng, Jiancheng ; Li, Xuefu ; Yan, Qing-Zeng ; Yang, Ji, 2024, AJ, 167, 176

Massive clumps in W43-main: Structure formation in an extensively shocked molecular cloud
Lin, Yuxin ; Wyrowski, Friedrich ; Liu, Hauyu Baobab ; Gong, Yan; Sipilä, Olli ; Izquierdo, Andrés F. ; Csengeri, Timea ; Ginsburg, Adam ; Li, Guang-Xing ; Spezzano, Silvia ; Pineda, Jaime E. ; Leurini, Silvia ; Caselli, Paola ; Menten, Karl M., 2024, A&A, accepted

The first Ka-band (26.1-35 GHz) blind line survey towards Orion KL
Liu, Xunchuan ; Liu, Tie ; Shen, Zhiqiang ; Qin, Sheng-Li ; Luo, Qiuyi ; Gong, Yan ; Cheng, Yu ; Henkel, Christian ; Gu, Qilao ; Zhu, Fengyao ; Zhang, Tianwei ; Zhao, Rongbing ; Wu, Yajun ; Li, Bin ; Li, Juan ; Zhao, Zhang ; Wang, Jinqing ; Zhong, Weiye ; Liu, Qinghui ; Xia, Bo ; Fu, Li ; Yan, Zhen ; Zhang, Chao ; Wang, Lingling ; Ye, Qian ; Yang, Aiyuan ; Xu, Fengwei ; Zhang, Chao ; Dutta, Somnath ; Li, Shanghuo ; Liu, Meizhu ; Yang, Dongting ; Li, Chuanshou ; Chen, Li 2024, ApJS, 271, 3

Maser Investigation toward Off-Plane Stars (MIOPS): detection of SiO masers in the Galactic thick disk and halo
Yang, Wenjin ; Wu, Yuanwei ; Gong, Yan ; Mauron, Nicolas ; Zhang, Bo ; Menten, Karl M. ; Mai, Xiaofeng ; Liu, Dejian ; Li, Juan ; Li, Jingjing, 2024, ApJ, 961, 190

A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey. IX. Radio Source Catalog III: 2° < l < 28°, 36° < l < 40°, 56° < l < 60° and |b| < 1°, VLA B-configuration
Yang, A. Y. ; Dzib, S. A. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Medina, S. -N. X. ; Menten, K. M. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Ortiz-León, G. N. ; Cotton, W. D. ; Gong, Y. ; Dokara, R. ; Rugel, M. R. ; Beuther, H. ; Pandian, J. D. ; Csengeri, T. ; Veena, V. S. ; Roy, N. ; Nguyen, H. ; Winkel, B. ; Ott, J. ; Carrasco-Gonzalez, C. ; Khan, S. ; Cheema, A., 2023, A&A, 680, A92

Sulfur Isotope Ratios in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Gong, Y. ; Henkel, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Chen, C. -H. R. ; Zhang, Z. Y. ; Yan, Y. T. ; Weiss, A. ; Langer, N. ; Wang, J. Z. ; Mao, R. Q. ; Tang, X. D. ; Yang, W. ; Ao, Y. P. ; Wang, M., 2023, A&A 679, L6

Protonated hydrogen cyanide as a tracer of pristine molecular gas
Gong, Y. ; Du, F. J. ; Henkel, C. ; Jacob, A. M. ; Belloche, A. ; Wang, J. Z. ; Menten, K. M. ; Yang, W. ; Quan, D. H. ; Bop, C. T. ; Ortiz-León, G. N. ; Tang, X. D. ; Rugel, M. R. ; Liu, S., 2023, A&A, 679, A39

A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey VIII. Formaldehyde absorption in Cygnus X
Gong, Y. ; Ortiz-León, G. N. ; Rugel, M. R. ; Menten, K. M. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Henkel, C. ; Beuther, H. ; Dzib, S. A. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Yang, A. Y. ; Pandian, J. D. ; Dokara, R. ; Veena, V. S. ; Nguyen, H. ; Medina, S. -N. X. ; Cotton, W. D. ; Reich, W. ; Winkel, B. ; Müller, P. ; Skretas, I. ; Csengeri, T. ; Khan, S. ; Cheema, A., 2023, A&A, 678, A130

High-resolution APEX/LAsMA 12CO and 13CO (3-2) observation of the G333 giant molecular cloud complex : I. Evidence for gravitational acceleration in hub-filament systems
Zhou, J. W. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Neupane, S. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Evans, N. J., II ; Vázquez-Semadeni, E. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gong, Y.; Liu, T.; 2023, A&A, 676, A69

ATLASGAL: 3-mm class I methanol masers in high-mass star formation regions
Yang, W. ; Gong, Y.; Menten, K. M. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Henkel, C. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Csengeri, T. ; Ellingsen, S. P. ; Bemis, A. R. ; Jang, J.; 2023, A&A, 675, A112

The Effelsberg survey of FU Orionis and EX Lupi objects II. -- H2O maser observations
Szabó, Zs. M.; Gong, Y.; Yang, W.; Menten, K. M.; Bayandina, O.~S.; Cyganowski, C. J.; Kóspál, Á.; Ábrahám, P.; Belloche, A.; Wyrowski., F.; 2023, A&A, 674, A202

The distance to the Serpens South Cluster from H2O masers
Ortiz-Leon, G. N.; Dzib, S. A.; Loinard, L.; Gong, Y.; Pillai, T.; Plunkett, A.; 2023, A&A, 673, L1

The Effelsberg survey of FU Orionis and EX Lupi objects I. Host environments of FUors/EXors traced by NH3
Szabó, Zs. M.; Gong, Y.; Menten, K. M.; Yang, W.; Cyganowski, C. J.; Kóspál, Á.; Ábrahám, P.; Belloche, A.; Wyrowski., F.; 2023, A&A, 672, A158

Direct measurements of carbon and sulfur isotope ratios in the Milky Way
Yan, Y. T. ; Henkel, C. ; Kobayashi, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gong, Y. ; Zhang, J. S. ; Yu, H. Z. ; Yang, K. ; Xie, J. J. ; Wang, Y. X.; 2023, A&A, 670, A98

A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey. VII. Supernova remnants in the Galactic longitude range 28°<l<36°
Dokara, R. ; Gong, Y. ; Reich, W. ; Rugel, M. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Menten, K. ; Cotton, W. ; Dzib, S. ; Khan, S. ; Medina, S. ; Nguyen, H. ; Ortiz-León, G. ; Urquhart, J. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Yang, A. ; Anderson, L. D. ; Beuther, H. ; Csengeri, T. ; Müller, P. ; Ott, J. ; Pandian, J. D. ; Roy, N.; 2023, A&A, 671, A145

A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey. VI. Radio Source Catalog II: 28°<l<36° and |b|<1°, VLA B-configuration
Dzib, S. A. ; Yang, A. Y. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Medina, S. -N. X. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Menten, K. M. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Cotton, W. D. ; Dokara, R. ; Ortiz-León, G. N. ; Rugel, M. R. ; Nguyen, H. ; Gong, Y. ; Chakraborty, A. ; Beuther, H. ; Billington, S. J. ; Carrasco-Gonzalez, C. ; Csengeri, T. ; Hofner, P. ; Ott, J. ; Pandian, J. D. ; Roy, N. ; Yanza, V.; 2023, A&A, 670, A9

Discovery of non-metastable ammonia masers in Sagittarius B2
Yan, Y. T. ; Henkel, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gong, Y. ; Nguyen, H. ; Ott, J. ; Ginsburg, A. ; Wilson, T. L. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Belloche, A. ; Zhang, J. S. ; Budaiev, N. ; Jeff, D.; 2022, A&A, 666, L15

A Global View on Star Formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic Plane Survey V. 6.7 GHz Methanol Maser Catalogue
Nguyen, H. ; Rugel, M. R. ; Murugeshan, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Urquhart, J. S. ; Dokara, R. ; Dzib, S. A. ; Gong, Y.; Khan, S. ; Medina, S-N. X. ; Ortiz-Leon, G. N. ; Reich, W. ; Wyrowski, F. ; Yang, A. Y. ; Beuther, H. ; Cotton, W. D. ; Pandian, J. D.; 2022, A&A, 666, A59

Water Masers as an Early Tracer of Star Formation
Ladeyschikov, Dmitry A.; Gong, Yan; Sobolev, Andrey M.; Menten, Karl M.; Urquhart, James S.; Breen, Shari L.; Shakhvorostova, Nadezhda N.; Bayandina, Olga S.; Tsivilev, Alexander P.; 2022, ApJS, 261, 14

Vibrationally excited HCN transitions in circumstellar envelopes of carbon-rich AGB stars
Jeste, Manali ; Gong, Yan; Wong, Ka Tat; Menten, Karl M. ; Kamiński, Tomasz ; Wyrowski, Friedrich; 2022, A&A, 666, A69

HI-H2 transition: exploring the role of the magnetic field
Skalidis, R.; Tassis, K.; Panopoulou, G. V. ; Pineda, J. L. ; Gong, Y. ; Mandarakas, N.; Blinov, D.; Kiehlmann, S.; Kypriotakis, J. A.; 2022, A&A, 665, A77

And then they were two: detection of non-thermal radio emission from the bow shocks of two runaway stars
Moutzouri, M. ; Mackey, J. ; Carrasco González, C. ; Gong, Y. ; Brose, R. ; Zargaryan, D. ; Toalá, J. A. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gvaramadze, V. V. ; Rugel, M. R.; 2022, A&A, 663, A80

Widespread subsonic turbulence in Ophiuchus North 1 (cubes)
Gong, Y. ; Liu, S.; Wang, J.-Z.; Zhu, W.-S.; Li, G.-X.; Yang, W.-J.; Sun, J.-X.; 2022, A&A, 663, A82

Discovery of ammonia (9,6) masers in two high-mass star-forming regions
Yan, Y. T. ; Henkel, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gong, Y. ; Ott, J. ; Wilson, T. L. ; Wootten, A. ; Brunthaler, A. ; Zhang, J. S. ; Chen, J. L. ; Yang, K.; 2022, A&A, 659, A5

Redshifted methanol absorption tracing infall motions of high-mass star formation regions
Yang, W. J.; Menten, K. M. ; Yang, A. Y.; Wyrowski, F. ; Gong, Y. ; Ellingsen, S. P. ; Henkel, C. ; Chen, X. ; Xu, Y. ; 2022, A&A, 658, A192

Kinetic temperature of massive star-forming molecular clumps measured with formaldehyde. IV. The ALMA view of N113 and N159W in the LMC
Tang, X. D. ; Henkel, C. ; Menten, K. M. ; Gong, Y. ; Chen, C. -H. R. ; Li, D. L. ; Lee, M. -Y. ; Mangum, J. G. ; Ao, Y. P. ; Mühle, S. ; Aalto, S. ; García-Burillo, S. ; Martín, S. ; Viti, S. ; Muller, S. ; Costagliola, F. ; Asiri, H. ; Levshakov, S. A. ; Spaans, M. ; Ott, J. Impellizzeri, C. M. V. ; Fukui, Y. ; He, Y. X. ; Esimbek, J. ; Zhou, J. J. ; Zheng, X. W. ; Zhao, X. ; Li, J. S.; 2021, A&A, 655, 12

[ A&A A&A A&A] A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey IV. Radio continuum detections of young stellar objects in the Galactic Centre region
Nguyen, H.; Rugel, M. R.; Menten, K. M.; Brunthaler, A.; Dzib, S. A.; Yang, A. Y.; Kauffmann, J.; Pillai, T.; Nandakumar, G.; Schultheis, M.; Urquhart, J. S.; Dokara, R.; Gong, Y.; Medina, S-N. X.; Ortiz-León, G. N.; Reich, W.; Wyrowski, F.; Beuther, H.; Cotton, W. D.; Csengeri, T.; Pandian, J. D.; Roy, N.; 2021, A&A, 651, A88

[ A&A A&A A&A] A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey - III. 6.7 GHz methanol maser survey in Cygnus X
Ortiz-León, Gisela N.; Menten, Karl M.; Brunthaler, Andreas; Csengeri, Timea; Urquhart, James S.; Wyrowski, Friedrich; Gong, Yan; Rugel, Michael R.; Dzib, Sergio A.; Yang, Aiyuan; Nguyen, Hans; Cotton, William D.; Medina, Sac Nicte X.; Dokara, Rohit; Koenig, Carsten; Beuther, Henrik; Pandian, Jagadheep D.; Reich, Wolfgang; Roy, Nirupam; 2021, A&A, 651, A87

[ A&A A&A A&A] A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey - II. Supernova remnants in the first quadrant of the Milky Way
Dokara, Rohit; Brunthaler, A.; Menten, K. M.; Dzib, S. A.; Reich, W.; Cotton, W. D.; Anderson, L. D.; Chen, C. -H. R.; Gong, Y.; Medina, S. -N. X. ; Ortiz-León, G. N.; Rugel, M.; Urquhart, J. S.; Wyrowski, F.; Yang, A. Y.; Beuther, H.; Billington, S. J.; Csengeri, T.; Carrasco-González, C.; Roy, N.; 2021, A&A, 651, A86

[ A&A A&A A&A] A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic Plane Survey - I. Overview and first results for the Galactic longitude range 28° < l < 36°
Brunthaler, A.; Menten, K. M.; Dzib, S. A.; Cotton, W. D.; Wyrowski, F.; Dokara, R.; Gong, Y.; Medina, S-N. X.; Müller, P.; Nguyen, H.; Ortiz-León, G. N.; Reich, W.; Rugel, M. R.; Urquhart, J. S.; Winkel, B.; Yang, A. Y.; Beuther, H.; Billington, S.; Carrasco-Gonzales, C.; Csengeri, T.; Murugeshan, C.; Pandian, J. D.; Roy, N.; 2021, A&A, 651, A85

Discovery of 22 GHz Water Masers in the Serpens South Region
Ortiz-León, Gisela N.; Plunkett, Adele; Loinard, Laurent; Dzib, Sergio A.; Rodríguez-Garza, Carolina B.; Pillai, Thushara; Gong, Yan; Brunthaler, Andreas; 2021, AJ 162, 68

Dense gas in local galaxies revealed by multiple tracers
Li, Fei; Wang, Junzhi; Gao, Feng; Liu, Shu; Zhang, Zhi-Yu; Li, Shanghuo; Gong, Y.; Li, Juan; Shi, Yong; 2021, MNRAS, 503, 4508

[ A&A] Hunting for the elusive methylene radical (fits)
Jacob, A. M.; Menten, K. M.; Gong, Y.; Bergman, P.; Tiwari, M.; Bruenken, S.; Olofsson, A.O.H.; 2021, A&A, 647, A42

Physical and chemical structure of the Serpens filament: fast formation and gravity-driven accretion (fits-cube, dynamic e-poster, animation)
Gong, Y.; Belloche, A.; Du, F. J.; Menten, K. M.; Henkel, C.; Li, G. X.; Wyrowski, F.; Mao, R. Q.; 2021, A&A, 646, A170

Evidence for dense gas heated by the explosion in Orion KL
Li, Dalei; Tang, Xindi; Henkel, Christian; Menten, Karl M.; Wyrowski, Friedrich; Gong, Yan,; Wu, Gang; He, Yuxin; Esimbek, Jarken; Zhou, Jianjun, 2020, ApJ, 901, 62

New maser species tracing spiral-arm accretion flows in a high-mass young stellar object
Chen, Xi; Sobolev, Andrej M.; Ren, Zhi-Yuan; Parfenov, Sergey; Breen, Shari L.; Ellingsen, Simon P.; Shen, Zhi-Qiang; Li, Bin; MacLeod, Gordon C.; Baan, Willem; Brogan, Crystal; Hirota, Tomoya; Hunter, Todd R.; Linz, Hendrik; Menten, Karl; Sugiyama, Koichiro; Stecklum, Bringfried; Gong, Yan; Zheng, Xingwu, 2020, NatAs, 4, 1170

Interstellar glycolamide: A comprehensive rotational study and an astronomical search in Sgr B2(N)
Sanz-Novo, M.; Belloche, A.; Alonso, J. L.; Kolesnikova, L.; Garrod, R. T.; Mata, S.; Müller, H. S. P.; Menten, K. M.; Gong, Y., 2020, A&A, 639, A135

Local molecular gas toward the Aquila Rift region
Su, Y.; Yang, J.; Yan, Q.-Z.; Gong, Y.; Chen, Z.-W.; Zhang, S.-B.; Sun, Y.; Zhang, M.-M.; Chen, X.-P.; Zhou, X.; Wang, M.; Wang, H.-C.; Xu, Y.; Jiang, Z.-B., 2020, ApJ, 893, 91

36 GHz methanol lines from nearby galaxies: maser or quasi-thermal emission?
Humire, P.; Henkel, C.; Gong, Y.; Leurini, S.; Mauersberger, R.; Levshakov, S. A.; Winkel, B.; Tarchi, A.; Castangia, P.; Malawi, A.; Asiri, H.; Ellingsen, S. P.; McCarthy, T. P.; Chen, X.; Tang, X., 2020, A&A, 633, A106

Searching for further evidence for cloud-cloud collisions in L1188 (pdf-file, fits-cube)
Gong, Y.; Tang, X.D.; Henkel, C.; Menten, K.M.; Mao, R.Q.; Wang, Y.; Lee, M.-Y.; Zhu, W.S.; Lin, Y.; Zhang, S.B.; Chen, X.P.; Yang, W.J., 2019, A&A, 632, A115

ALMA view of the 12C/13C isotopic ratio in starburst galaxies
Tang, X. D.; Henkel, C.; Menten, K. M.; Gong, Y.; Martin, S.; Muhle, S.; Aalto, S.; Muller, S.; Garcia-Burillo, S.; Levshakov, S.; Aladro, R.; Spaans, M.; Viti, S.; Asiri, H. M.; Ao, Y. P.; Zhang, J. S.; Zheng, X. W.; Esimbek, J.; Zhou, J. J., 2019, A&A, 629, A6

GLOSTAR -- Radio Source Catalog I: 28°<l<36° and |b|<1°
Medina, S. N. X.; Urquhart, J. S.; Dzib, S. A.; Brunthaler, A.; Cotton, B.; Menten, K. M.; Wyrowski, F.; Beuther, H.; Billington, S. J.; Carrasco-Gonzalez, C.; Csengeri, T.; Gong, Yan; Hofner, P.; Nguyen, H.; Ortiz-León, G. N.; Ott, J.; Pandian, J. D.; Roy, N.; Sarkar, E.; Wang, Y. Winkel, B., 2019, A&A, 627, A175

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP): Project Details and Initial Results from the Galactic Longitude of 25.8deg to 49.7deg
Su, Yang; Yang, Ji; Zhang, Shaobo; Gong, Yan; Wang, Hongchi; Zhou, Xin; Wang, Min; Chen, Zhiwei; Sun, Yan; Chen, Xuepeng; Xu, Ye; Jiang, Zhibo, 2019, ApJS, 240, 9

The Serpens filament at the onset of slightly supercritical collapse (pdf-file, fits-cube)
Gong, Y.; Li, G. X.; Mao, R. Q.; Henkel, C.; Menten, K. M.; Fang, M.; Wang, M.; Sun, J. X., 2018, A&A, 620, A62

Molecular line emission in NGC 4945, imaged with ALMA (pdf-file, channel-map)
Henkel, C.; Mühle S.; Bendo, G.; Józsa, G. I. G.; Gong, Y.; Viti, S.; Aalto, S.; Combes, F.; García-Burillo, S; Hunt, L. K.; Mangum, J.; Martín, S.; Muller, S.; Ott, J.; van der Werf, P.; Malawi, A. A.; Ismail, H.; Alkhuja, E.; Asiri, H. M.; Aladro, R.; Alves, F.; Ao, Y.; Baan, W. A.; Costagliola, F.; Fuller, G.; Greene, J.; Impellizzeri, C. M. V.; Kamali, F.; Klessen, R. S.; Mauersberger, R.; Tang, X. D.; Tristram, K.; Wang, M.; Zhang, J. S. 2018, A&A, 615, A155

Kinetic temperature of massive star-forming molecular clumps measured with formaldehyde. III. The Orion molecular cloud 1
Tang, X. D.; Henkel, C.; Menten, K. M.; Wyrowski, F.; Brinkmann, N.; Zheng, X. W.; Gong, Y.; Lin, Y. X.; Esimbek, J.; Zhou, J. J.; Yuan, Y.; Li, D. L.; He, Y. X. 2018, A&A, 609, A16

Is HESS J1912+101 associated with an old Supernova Remnant?
Su, Yang; Zhou, Xin; Yang, Ji; Chen, Yang; Chen, Xuepeng; Gong, Yan; Zhang, Shaobo, 2017, ApJ, 845, 48

SiS in the Circumstellar Envelope of IRC +10216: Maser and Quasi-thermal Emission (pdf-file, movies: J=1-0, J=2-1)
Gong, Y.; Henkel, C.; Ott, J.; Menten, K. M.; Morris, M. R.; Keller, D.; Claussen, M. J.; Grasshoff, M.; Mao, R. Q., 2017, ApJ, 843, 54

L1188: A Promising Candidate for Cloud-Cloud Collisions Triggering the Formation of Low- and Intermediate-mass Stars
Gong, Yan; Fang, Min; Mao, Ruiqing; Zhang, Shaobo; Wang, Yuan; Su, Yang; Chen, Xuepeng; Yang, Ji; Wang, Hongchi; Lu, Dengrong, 2017, ApJL, 835, L14

Molecular clouds and star formation toward the Galactic plane within 216.25° ≤ l ≤ 218.75° and −0.75° ≤ b ≤ 1.25° (fits-cube)
Gong, Y.; Mao, R. Q.; Fang, M.; Zhang, S. B.; Su, Y.; Yang, J.; Jiang, Z. B.; Xu, Y.; Wang, M.; Wang, Y.; Lu, D. R.; Sun, J. X., 2016, A&A, 588, A104

N131: A dust bubble born from the disruption of a gas filament
Zhang, Chuan-Peng; Li, Guang-Xing; Wyrowski, Friedrich; Wang, Jun-Jie; Yuan, Jing-Hua; Xu, Jin-Long; Gong, Yan; Yeh, Cosmos C.; Menten, Karl M., 2016, A&A, 585, A117

A 1.3 cm line survey toward Orion KL (fits)
Gong, Y.; Henkel, C.; Thorwirth, S.; Spezzano, S.; Menten, K. M.; Walmsley, C. M.; Wyrowski, F.; Mao, R. Q.; Klein, B., 2015, A&A, 581, A48

A 1.3 cm line survey toward IRC +10216 (fits)
Gong, Y.; Henkel, C.; Spezzano, S.; Thorwirth, S.; Menten, K. M.; Wyrowski, F.; Mao, R. Q.; Klein, B., 2015, A&A, 574, A56