Myers, Philip
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffRadio astronomy; physical processes in molecular clouds and star formation; interstellar molecules; molecular spectroscopy; protostars; gravitational infall and condensation; formation of clusters
Background And Education
Education And Training
- A.B., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Myers, Philip C., Stephens, Ian W., and Coudé, Simon. 2024. "Most-likely DCF Estimates of Magnetic Field Strength." The Astrophysical Journal, 962 64. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1596. 2024
- Pandhi, A., Friesen, R. K., Fissel, L., Pineda, J. E., Caselli, P., Chen, M. C. -Y, Di Francesco, J., Ginsburg, A., Kirk, H., Myers, P. C., Offner, S. S. R., Punanova, A., Quan, F., Redaelli, E., Rosolowsky, E., Scibelli, S., Seo, Y. M., and Shirley, Y. 2023. "Alignment of dense molecular core morphology and velocity gradients with ambient magnetic fields." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525 364–392. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2283. 2023
- Myers, Philip C., Dunham, Michael M., and Stephens, Ian W. 2023. "Can Protostellar Outflows Set Stellar Masses?" The Astrophysical Journal, 949 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acca74. 2023
- Evans, Neal J.,II, Yang, Yao-Lun, Green, Joel D., Zhao, Bo, di Francesco, James, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Jørgensen, Jes K., Choi, Minho, Myers, Philip C., and Mardones, Diego. 2023. "Models of Rotating Infall for the B335 Protostar." The Astrophysical Journal, 943 90. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acaa38. 2023
- Yoo, Hyunju, Lee, Chang Won, Chung, Eun Jung, Kim, Shinyoung, Tafalla, Mario, Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., Kim, Kyoung Hee, Liu, Tie, Kwon, Woojin, Soam, Archana, and Kim, Jongsoo. 2023. "TRAO Survey of Nearby Filamentary Molecular Clouds, the Universal Nursery of Stars (TRAO-FUNS). III. Filaments and Dense Cores in the NGC 2068 and NGC 2071 Regions of Orion B." The Astrophysical Journal, 957 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf8c2. 2023
- Heimsoth, Daniel J., Stephens, Ian W., Arce, Héctor G., Bourke, Tyler L., Myers, Philip C., and Dunham, Michael M. 2022. "Evolution and Kinematics of Protostellar Envelopes in the Perseus Molecular Cloud." The Astrophysical Journal, 927 88. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac448e. 2022
- Stephens, Ian W., Myers, Philip C., Zucker, Catherine, Jackson, James M., Andersson, B. -G, Smith, Rowan, Soam, Archana, Battersby, Cara, Sanhueza, Patricio, Hogge, Taylor, Smith, Howard A., Novak, Giles, Sadavoy, Sarah, Pillai, Thushara G. S., Li, Zhi-Yun, Looney, Leslie W., Sugitani, Koji, Coudé, Simon, Guzmán, Andrés, Goodman, Alyssa, Kusune, Takayoshi, Santos, Fábio P., Zuckerman, Leah, and Encalada, Frankie. 2022. "The Magnetic Field in the Milky Way Filamentary Bone G47." The Astrophysical Journal, 926 L6. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4d8f. 2022
- Kim, Shinyoung, Lee, Chang Won, Tafalla, Mario, Gophinathan, Maheswar, Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., Chung, Eun Jung, and Li, Shanghuo. 2022. "The Role of Filamentary Structures in the Formation of Two Dense Cores, L1544 and L694-2." The Astrophysical Journal, 940 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac96e0. 2022
- Myers, Philip C., Hatchfield, H. Perry, and Battersby, Cara. 2022. "Virial Clumps in Central Molecular Zone Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 929 34. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5906. 2022
- Singh, Ayushi, Matzner, Christopher D., Friesen, Rachel K., Martin, Peter G., Pineda, Jaime E., Rosolowsky, Erik, Alves, Felipe, Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Chen, Hope How-Huan, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Choudhury, Spandan, di Francesco, James, Keown, Jared, Kirk, Helen, Punanova, Anna, Seo, Youngmin, Shirley, Yancy, Ginsburg, Adam, Offner, Stella S. R., Arce, Héctor G., Caselli, Paola, Goodman, Alyssa A., Myers, Philip C., Redaelli, Elena, and GAS Collaboration. 2021. "Are Massive Dense Clumps Truly Subvirial? A New Analysis Using Gould Belt Ammonia Data." The Astrophysical Journal, 922 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac20d2. 2021
- Kim, Mi-Ryang, Lee, Chang Won, Maheswar, G., Myers, Philip C., and Kim, Gwanjeong. 2021. "Gas Infalling Motions in the Envelopes of Very Low Luminosity Objects." The Astrophysical Journal, 910 112. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe4d3. 2021
- Myers, Philip C. and Basu, Shantanu. 2021. "Magnetic Properties of Star-forming Dense Cores." The Astrophysical Journal, 917 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf4c8. 2021
- Chung, Eun Jung, Lee, Chang Won, Kim, Shinyoung, Gopinathan, Maheswar, Tafalla, Mario, Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., Liu, Tie, Yoo, Hyunju, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Soam, Archana, Cho, Jungyeon, Kwon, Woojin, Lee, Changhoon, and Kang, Hyunwoo. 2021. "TRAO Survey of the Nearby Filamentary Molecular Clouds, the Universal Nursery of Stars (TRAO FUNS). II. Filaments and Dense Cores in IC 5146." The Astrophysical Journal, 919 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0881. 2021
- Kim, Shinyoung, Lee, Chang Won, Gopinathan, Maheswar, Tafalla, Mario, Sohn, Jungjoo, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Soam, Archana, and Myers, Philip C. 2020. "CS Depletion in Prestellar Cores." The Astrophysical Journal, 891 169. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab774d. 2020
- Harju, Jorma, Pineda, Jaime E., Vasyunin, Anton I., Caselli, Paola, Offner, Stella S. R., Goodman, Alyssa A., Juvela, Mika, Sipilä, Olli, Faure, Alexandre, Le Gal, Romane, Hily-Blant, Pierre, Alves, João, Bizzocchi, Luca, Burkert, Andreas, Chen, Hope, Friesen, Rachel K., Güsten, Rolf, Myers, Philip C., Punanova, Anna, Rist, Claire, Rosolowsky, Erik, Schlemmer, Stephan, Shirley, Yancy, Spezzano, Silvia, Vastel, Charlotte et al. 2020. "Efficient Methanol Production on the Dark Side of a Prestellar Core." The Astrophysical Journal, 895 101. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8f93. 2020
- Pillai, Thushara G. S., Clemens, Dan P., Reissl, Stefan, Myers, Philip C., Kauffmann, Jens, Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique, Alves, F. O., Franco, G. A. P., Henshaw, Jonathan, Menten, Karl M., Nakamura, Fumitaka, Seifried, Daniel, Sugitani, Koji, and Wiesemeyer, Helmut. 2020. "Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South." Nature Astronomy, 4 1195–1201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1172-6. 2020
- Chen, Che-Yu, Behrens, Erica A., Washington, Jasmin E., Fissel, Laura M., Friesen, Rachel K., Li, Zhi-Yun, Pineda, Jaime E., Ginsburg, Adam, Kirk, Helen, Scibelli, Samantha, Alves, Felipe, Redaelli, Elena, Caselli, Paola, Punanova, Anna, di Francesco, James, Rosolowsky, Erik, Offner, Stella S. R., Martin, Peter G., Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Chen, Hope H. -H, Chen, Michael C. -Y, Keown, Jared, Seo, Youngmin, Shirley, Yancy, Arce, Hector G. et al. 2020. "Relative alignment between dense molecular cores and ambient magnetic field: the synergy of numerical models and observations." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494 1971–1987. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa835. 2020
- Pokhrel, Riwaj, Gutermuth, Robert A., Betti, Sarah K., Offner, Stella S. R., Myers, Philip C., Megeath, S. Thomas, Sokol, Alyssa D., Ali, Babar, Allen, Lori, Allen, Thomas S., Dunham, Michael M., Fischer, William J., Henning, Thomas, Heyer, Mark, Hora, Joseph L., Pipher, Judith L., Tobin, John J., and Wolk, Scott J. 2020. "Star-Gas Surface Density Correlations in 12 Nearby Molecular Clouds. I. Data Collection and Star-sampled Analysis." The Astrophysical Journal, 896 60. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab92a2. 2020
- Choudhury, Spandan, Pineda, Jaime E., Caselli, Paola, Ginsburg, Adam, Offner, Stella S. R., Rosolowsky, Erik, Friesen, Rachel K., Alves, Felipe O., Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Punanova, Anna, Redaelli, Elena, Kirk, Helen, Myers, Philip C., Martin, Peter G., Shirley, Yancy, Chun-Yuan Chen, Michael, Goodman, Alyssa A., and di Francesco, James. 2020. "Ubiquitous NH3 supersonic component in L1688 coherent cores." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 640 L6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037955. 2020
- Li, Juan, Myers, Philip C., Kirk, Helen, Gutermuth, Robert A., Dunham, Michael M., and Pokhrel, Riwaj. 2019. "Catalog of High Protostellar Surface Density Regions in Nearby Embedded Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 871 163. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf652. 2019
- Chen, Hope How-Huan, Pineda, Jaime E., Goodman, Alyssa A., Burkert, Andreas, Offner, Stella S. R., Friesen, Rachel K., Myers, Philip C., Alves, Felipe, Arce, Héctor G., Caselli, Paola, Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, di Francesco, James, Ginsburg, Adam, Keown, Jared, Kirk, Helen, Martin, Peter G., Matzner, Christopher, Punanova, Anna, Redaelli, Elena, Rosolowsky, Erik, Scibelli, Samantha, Seo, Youngmin, Shirley, Yancy, Singh, Ayushi et al. 2019. "Droplets. I. Pressure-dominated Coherent Structures in L1688 and B18." The Astrophysical Journal, 877 93. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1a40. 2019
- Sadavoy, Sarah I., Stephens, Ian W., Myers, Philip C., Looney, Leslie, Tobin, John, Kwon, Woojin, Commerçon, Benoît, Segura-Cox, Dominique, Henning, Thomas, and Hennebelle, Patrick. 2019. "Dust Polarization toward Embedded Protostars in Ophiuchus with ALMA. III. Survey Overview." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 245 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab4257. 2019
- Keown, Jared, di Francesco, James, Rosolowsky, Erik, Singh, Ayushi, Figura, Charles, Kirk, Helen, Anderson, L. D., Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Elia, Davide, Friesen, Rachel, Ginsburg, Adam, Marston, A., Pezzuto, Stefano, Schisano, Eugenio, Bontemps, Sylvain, Caselli, Paola, Liu, Hong-Li, Longmore, Steven, Motte, Frédérique, Myers, Philip C., Offner, Stella S. R., Sanhueza, Patricio, Schneider, Nicola, Stephens, Ian, and Urquhart, James. 2019. "KFPA Examinations of Young STellar Object Natal Environments (KEYSTONE): Hierarchical Ammonia Structures in Galactic Giant Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 884 4. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e76. 2019
- Auddy, Sayantan, Myers, Philip C., Basu, Shantanu, Harju, Jorma, Pineda, Jaime E., and Friesen, Rachel K. 2019. "Magnetic Field Structure of Dense Cores Using Spectroscopic Methods." The Astrophysical Journal, 872 207. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0086. 2019
- Stephens, Ian W., Bourke, Tyler L., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Pokhrel, Riwaj, Tobin, John J., Arce, Héctor G., Sadavoy, Sarah I., Vorobyov, Eduard I., Pineda, Jaime E., Offner, Stella S. R., Lee, Katherine I., Kristensen, Lars E., Jørgensen, Jes K., Gurwell, Mark A., and Goodman, Alyssa A. 2019. "Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and Their Evolution with the SMA (MASSES)-Full Data Release." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 245 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab5181. 2019
- Chung, Eun Jung, Lee, Chang Won, Kim, Shinyoung, Kim, Gwanjeong, Caselli, Paola, Tafalla, Mario, Myers, Philip C., Soam, Archana, Liu, Tie, Gopinathan, Maheswar, Kim, Miryang, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kwon, Woojin, Kang, Hyunwoo, and Lee, Changhoon. 2019. "TRAO Survey of Nearby Filamentary Molecular Clouds, the Universal Nursery of Stars (TRAO FUNS). I. Dynamics and Chemistry of L1478 in the California Molecular Cloud." The Astrophysical Journal, 877 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab12d1. 2019
- Andersen, Bridget C., Stephens, Ian W., Dunham, Michael M., Pokhrel, Riwaj, Jørgensen, Jes K., Frimann, Søren, Segura-Cox, Dominique, Myers, Philip C., Bourke, Tyler L., Tobin, John J., and Tychoniec, Łukasz. 2019. "The Mass Evolution of Protostellar Disks and Envelopes in the Perseus Molecular Cloud." The Astrophysical Journal, 873 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab05c7. 2019
- Pineda, Jaime E., Zhao, Bo, Schmiedeke, Anika, Segura-Cox, Dominique M., Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., Tobin, John J., and Dunham, Michael. 2019. "The Specific Angular Momentum Radial Profile in Dense Cores: Improved Initial Conditions for Disk Formation." The Astrophysical Journal, 882 103. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2cd1. 2019
- Sadavoy, Sarah I., Myers, Philip C., Stephens, Ian W., Tobin, John, Kwon, Woojin, Segura-Cox, Dominique, Henning, Thomas, Commerçon, Benoît, and Looney, Leslie. 2018. "Dust Polarization toward Embedded Protostars in Ophiuchus with ALMA. II. IRAS 16293-2422." The Astrophysical Journal, 869 115. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaef81. 2018
- Lu, Xing, Zhang, Qizhou, Liu, Hauyu Baobab, Sanhueza, Patricio, Tatematsu, Ken'ichi, Feng, Siyi, Smith, Howard A., Myers, Philip C., Sridharan, T. K., and Gu, Qiusheng. 2018. "Filamentary Fragmentation and Accretion in High-mass Star-forming Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 855 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaad11. 2018
- Pokhrel, Riwaj, Myers, Philip C., Dunham, Michael M., Stephens, Ian W., Sadavoy, Sarah I., Zhang, Qizhou, Bourke, Tyler L., Tobin, John J., Lee, Katherine I., Gutermuth, Robert A., and Offner, Stella S. R. 2018. "Hierarchical Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud: From the Cloud Scale to Protostellar Objects." The Astrophysical Journal, 853 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa240. 2018
- Lee, Chang Won, Kim, Gwanjeong, Myers, Philip C., Saito, Masao, Kim, Shinyoung, Kwon, Woojin, Lyo, A. -Ran, Soam, Archana, and Kim, Mi-Ryang. 2018. "High-resolution ALMA Study of the Proto-brown-dwarf Candidate L328-IRS." The Astrophysical Journal, 865 131. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadcf6. 2018
- Sadavoy, Sarah I., Keto, Eric, Bourke, Tyler L., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Stephens, Ian W., di Francesco, James, Webb, Kristi, Stutz, Amelia M., Launhardt, Ralf, and Tobin, John J. 2018. "Intensity-corrected Herschel Observations of Nearby Isolated Low-mass Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 852 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa080. 2018
- Stephens, Ian W., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Pokhrel, Riwaj, Bourke, Tyler L., Vorobyov, Eduard I., Tobin, John J., Sadavoy, Sarah I., Pineda, Jaime E., Offner, Stella S. R., Lee, Katherine I., Kristensen, Lars E., Jørgensen, Jes K., Goodman, Alyssa A., Arce, Héctor G., and Gurwell, Mark. 2018. "Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and Their Evolution with the SMA (MASSES)---1.3 mm Subcompact Data Release." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 237 22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aacda9. 2018
- Kirk, H., Dunham, M. M., Di Francesco, J., Johnstone, D., Offner, S. S. R., Sadavoy, S. I., Tobin, J. J., Arce, H. G., Bourke, T. L., Mairs, S., Myers, P. C., Pineda, J. E., Schnee, S., and Shirley, Y. L. 2017. "ALMA Observations of Starless Core Substructure in Ophiuchus." The Astrophysical Journal, 838 114. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa63f8. 2017
- Stephens, Ian W., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Pokhrel, Riwaj, Sadavoy, Sarah I., Vorobyov, Eduard I., Tobin, John J., Pineda, Jaime E., Offner, Stella S. R., Lee, Katherine I., Kristensen, Lars E., Jørgensen, Jes K., Goodman, Alyssa A., Bourke, Tyler L., Arce, Héctor G., and Plunkett, Adele L. 2017. "Alignment between Protostellar Outflows and Filamentary Structure." The Astrophysical Journal, 846 16. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8262. 2017
- Mercimek, Seyma, Myers, Philip C., Lee, Katherine I., and Sadavoy, Sarah I. 2017. "An Estimation of the Star Formation Rate in the Perseus Complex." The Astronomical Journal, 153 214. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa661f. 2017
- Harju, J., Daniel, F., Sipilä, O., Caselli, P., Pineda, J. E., Friesen, R. K., Punanova, A., Güsten, R., Wiesenfeld, L., Myers, P. C., Faure, A., Hily-Blant, P., Rist, C., Rosolowsky, E., Schlemmer, S., and Shirley, Y. L. 2017. "Deuteration of ammonia in the starless core Ophiuchus/H-MM1." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 600 A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628463. 2017
- Machaieie, Dinelsa A., Vilas-Boas, José W., Wuensche, Carlos A., Racca, Germán A., Myers, Philip C., and Hickel, Gabriel R. 2017. "Properties of Dense Cores Embedded in Musca Derived from Extinction Maps and 13CO, C18O, and NH3 Emission Lines." The Astrophysical Journal, 836 19. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/19. 2017
- Myers, Philip C. 2017. "Star-forming Filament Models." The Astrophysical Journal, 838 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa5fa8. 2017
- Kirk, Helen, Friesen, Rachel K., Pineda, Jaime E., Rosolowsky, Erik, Offner, Stella S. R., Matzner, Christopher D., Myers, Philip C., di Francesco, James, Caselli, Paola, Alves, Felipe O., Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Chen, How-Huan, Chun-Yuan Chen, Michael, Keown, Jared, Punanova, Anna, Seo, Young Min, Shirley, Yancy, Ginsburg, Adam, Hall, Christine, Singh, Ayushi, Arce, Héctor G., Goodman, Alyssa A., Martin, Peter, and Redaelli, Elena. 2017. "The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Dense Cores under Pressure in Orion A." The Astrophysical Journal, 846 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8631. 2017
- Friesen, Rachel K., Pineda, Jaime E., co-PIs, Rosolowsky, Erik, Alves, Felipe, Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, How-Huan Chen, Hope, Chun-Yuan Chen, Michael, di Francesco, James, Keown, Jared, Kirk, Helen, Punanova, Anna, Seo, Youngmin, Shirley, Yancy, Ginsburg, Adam, Hall, Christine, Offner, Stella S. R., Singh, Ayushi, Arce, Héctor G., Caselli, Paola, Goodman, Alyssa A., Martin, Peter G., Matzner, Christopher, Myers, Philip C., Redaelli, Elena et al. 2017. "The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: First Results of NH3 Mapping of the Gould Belt." The Astrophysical Journal, 843 63. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6d58. 2017
- Keown, Jared, di Francesco, James, Kirk, Helen, Friesen, Rachel K., Pineda, Jaime E., Rosolowsky, Erik, Ginsburg, Adam, Offner, Stella S. R., Caselli, Paola, Alves, Felipe, Chacón-Tanarro, Ana, Punanova, Anna, Redaelli, Elena, Seo, Young Min, Matzner, Christopher D., Chun-Yuan Chen, Michael, Goodman, Alyssa A., Chen, How-Huan, Shirley, Yancy, Singh, Ayushi, Arce, Hector G., Martin, Peter, and Myers, Philip C. 2017. "The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Observations of Hierarchical Dense Gas Structures in Cepheus-L1251." The Astrophysical Journal, 850 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa93ec. 2017
- Redaelli, E., Alves, F. O., Caselli, P., Pineda, J. E., Friesen, R. K., Chacón-Tanarro, A., Matzner, C. D., Ginsburg, A., Rosolowsky, E., Keown, J., Offner, S. S. R., Di Francesco, J., Kirk, H., Myers, P. C., Hacar, A., Cimatti, A., Chen, H. H., Chen, M. C., Lee, K. I., and Seo, Y. M. 2017. "The Green Bank Ammonia Survey: Unveiling the Dynamics of the Barnard 59 Star-forming Clump." The Astrophysical Journal, 850 202. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9703. 2017
- Fischer, William J., Megeath, S. Thomas, Furlan, Elise, Ali, Babar, Stutz, Amelia M., Tobin, John J., Osorio, Mayra, Stanke, Thomas, Manoj, P., Poteet, Charles A., Booker, Joseph J., Hartmann, Lee, Wilson, Thomas L., Myers, Philip C., and Watson, Dan M. 2017. "The Herschel Orion Protostar Survey: Luminosity and Envelope Evolution." The Astrophysical Journal, 840 69. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6d69. 2017
- Keown, Jared, Schnee, Scott, Bourke, Tyler L., di Francesco, James, Friesen, Rachel, Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., Williger, Gerard, and Tafalla, Mario. 2016. "Infall/Expansion Velocities in the Low-mass Dense Cores L492, L694-2, and L1521F: Dependence on Position and Molecular Tracer." The Astrophysical Journal, 833 97. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/97. 2016
- Lee, Katherine I., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Arce, Héctor G., Bourke, Tyler L., Goodman, Alyssa A., Jørgensen, Jes K., Kristensen, Lars E., Offner, Stella S. R., Pineda, Jaime E., Tobin, John J., and Vorobyov, Eduard I. 2016. "Misalignment of Outflow Axes in the Proto-multiple Systems in Perseus." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 820 L2. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/820/1/L2. 2016
- Friesen, R. K., Bourke, T. L., Di Francesco, J., Gutermuth, R., and Myers, P. C. 2016. "The Fragmentation and Stability of Hierarchical Structure in Serpens South." The Astrophysical Journal, 833 204. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/204. 2016
- Megeath, S. T., Gutermuth, R., Muzerolle, J., Kryukova, E., Hora, Joseph L., Allen, L. E., Flaherty, K., Hartmann, L., Myers, P. C., Pipher, J. L., Stauffer, J., Young, E. T., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2016. "The Spitzer Space Telescope Survey of the Orion A and B Molecular Clouds. II. The Spatial Distribution and Demographics of Dusty Young Stellar Objects." The Astronomical Journal, 151 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/1/5. 2016
- Schneider, N., Bontemps, S., Motte, F., Ossenkopf, V., Klessen, R. S., Simon, R., Fechtenbaum, S., Herpin, F., Tremblin, P., Csengeri, T., Myers, P. C., Hill, T., Cunningham, M., and Federrath, C. 2016. "Understanding star formation in molecular clouds. III. Probability distribution functions of molecular lines in Cygnus X." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 587 A74. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527144. 2016
- Myers, Philip C. 2015. "Characteristic Structure of Star-forming Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 806 226. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/226. 2015
- Evans, Neal J., II, di Francesco, James, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Jørgensen, Jes K., Choi, Minho, Myers, Philip C., and Mardones, Diego. 2015. "Detection of Infall in the Protostar B335 with ALMA." The Astrophysical Journal, 814 22. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/22. 2015
- Lee, Katherine I., Dunham, Michael M., Myers, Philip C., Tobin, John J., Kristensen, Lars E., Pineda, Jaime E., Vorobyov, Eduard I., Offner, Stella S. R., Arce, Héctor G., Li, Zhi-Yun, Bourke, Tyler L., Jørgensen, Jes K., Goodman, Alyssa A., Sadavoy, Sarah I., Chandler, Claire J., Harris, Robert J., Kratter, Kaitlin, Looney, Leslie W., Melis, Carl, Perez, Laura M., and Segura-Cox, Dominique. 2015. "Mass Assembly of Stellar Systems and Their Evolution with the SMA (MASSES). Multiplicity and the Physical Environment in L1448N." The Astrophysical Journal, 814 114. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/114. 2015
- Adams, J. D., Herter, T. L., Hora, Joseph L., Schneider, N., Lau, R. M., Staguhn, J. G., Simon, R., Smith, N., Gehrz, R. D., Allen, L. E., Bontemps, S., Carey, S. J., Fazio, Giovanni G., Gutermuth, R. A., Guzman Fernandez, A., Hankins, M., Hill, T., Keto, E., Koenig, X. P., Kraemer, K. E., Megeath, S. T., Mizuno, D. R., Motte, F., Myers, P. C., and Smith, H. A. 2015. "SOFIA/FORCAST Observations of Warm Dust in S106: A Fragmented Environment." The Astrophysical Journal, 814 54. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/814/1/54. 2015
- Rapson, V. A., Pipher, J. L., Gutermuth, R. A., Megeath, S. T., Allen, T. S., Myers, P. C., and Allen, L. E. 2014. "A Spitzer View of the Giant Molecular Cloud MON OB1 EAST/NGC 2264." The Astrophysical Journal, 794 124. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/124. 2014
- Palau, Aina, Zapata, Luis A., Rodríguez, Luis F., Bouy, Hervé, Barrado, David, Morales-Calderón, María, Myers, Philip C., Chapman, Nicholas, Juárez, Carmen, and Li, Di. 2014. "IC 348-SMM2E: a Class 0 proto-brown dwarf candidate forming as a scaled-down version of low- mass stars." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 833–845. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1461. 2014
- Myers, Philip C. 2014. "Protostar Mass Functions in Young Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 781 33. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/781/1/33. 2014
- Friesen, R. K., Medeiros, L., Schnee, S., Bourke, T. L., Francesco, J. Di, Gutermuth, R., and Myers, P. C. 2013. "Abundant cyanopolyynes as a probe of infall in the Serpens South cluster-forming region." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436 1513–1529. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1671. 2013
- Lee, Chang Won, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Gwanjeong, Saito, Masao, Myers, Philip C., and Kurono, Yasutaka. 2013. "Early Star-forming Processes in Dense Molecular Cloud L328; Identification of L328-IRS as a Proto-brown Dwarf." The Astrophysical Journal, 777 50. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/777/1/50. 2013
- Kirk, Helen, Myers, Philip C., Bourke, Tyler L., Gutermuth, Robert A., Hedden, Abigail, and Wilson, Grant W. 2013. "Filamentary Accretion Flows in the Embedded Serpens South Protocluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 766 115. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/766/2/115. 2013
- Myers, Philip C. 2013. "Origin of the Dense Core Mass Function in Contracting Filaments." The Astrophysical Journal, 764 140. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/140. 2013
- Masiunas, L. C., Gutermuth, R. A., Pipher, J. L., Megeath, S. T., Myers, P. C., Allen, L. E., Kirk, H. M., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2012. "A Structural Analysis of Star-forming Region AFGL 490." The Astrophysical Journal, 752 127. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/127. 2012
- Bourke, Tyler L., Myers, Philip C., Caselli, Paola, di Francesco, James, Belloche, Arnaud, Plume, René, and Wilner, David J. 2012. "Initial Conditions for Star Formation in Clusters: Physical and Kinematical Structure of the Starless Core Oph A-N6." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/117. 2012
- Kryukova, E., Megeath, S. T., Gutermuth, R. A., Pipher, J., Allen, T. S., Allen, L. E., Myers, P. C., and Muzerolle, J. 2012. "Luminosity Functions of Spitzer-identified Protostars in Nine Nearby Molecular Clouds." The Astronomical Journal, 144 31. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/144/2/31. 2012
- Myers, Philip C. 2012. "Mass and Luminosity Evolution of Young Stellar Objects." The Astrophysical Journal, 752 9. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/9. 2012
- Megeath, S. T., Gutermuth, R., Muzerolle, J., Kryukova, E., Flaherty, K., Hora, Joseph L., Allen, L. E., Hartmann, L., Myers, P. C., Pipher, J. L., Stauffer, J., Young, E. T., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2012. "The Spitzer Space Telescope Survey of the Orion A and B Molecular Clouds. I. A Census of Dusty Young Stellar Objects and a Study of Their Mid-infrared Variability." The Astronomical Journal, 144 192. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/144/6/192. 2012
- Kirk, Helen and Myers, Philip C. 2012. "Variations in the Mass Functions of Clustered and Isolated Young Stellar Objects." The Astrophysical Journal, 745, (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/131. 2012
- Gutermuth, R. A., Pipher, J. L., Megeath, S. T., Myers, P. C., Allen, L. E., and Allen, T. S. 2011. "A Correlation between Surface Densities of Young Stellar Objects and Gas in Eight Nearby Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 739, (2) 76–84. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/739/2/84. 2011
- Kauffmann, J., Bertoldi, F., Bourke, T. L., Myers, P. C., Lee, C. W., and Huard, T. L. 2011. "Confirmation of the VeLLO L1148-IRS: star formation at very low (column) density." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416 2341–2358. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19205.x. 2011
- Myers, Philip C. 2011. "Filamentary Condensations in a Young Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 735 82. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/2/82. 2011
- Lee, Chang Won and Myers, Philip C. 2011. "Internal Motions in Starless Dense Cores." The Astrophysical Journal, 734 60. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/734/1/60. 2011
- Michel, Manon, Kirk, Helen, and Myers, Philip C. 2011. "Mass Distributions of Stars and Cores in Young Groups and Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 735 51. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/51. 2011
- Myers, Philip C. 2011. "Star Formation in Dense Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal, 743, (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/98. 2011
- Kim, Gwan-Jeong, Lee, Chang-Won, Kim, Jongsoo, Lee, Youn-Gung, Ballesteros-Paredes, Javier, Myers, Philip C., and Kurtz, S. 2010. "Association of Infrared Dark Cloud Cores with YSOs: Starless or Starred IRDC Cores." Journal of Korean Astronomical Society, 43 9–23. https://doi.org/10.5303/JKAS.2010.43.1.009. 2010
- Gutermuth, R. A., Megeath, S. Thomas, Myers, Philip C., Allen, L. E., Pipher, J. L., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2010. "Erratum: "A Spitzer Survey of Young Stellar Clusters Within One Kiloparsec of the Sun: Cluster Core Extraction and Basic Structural Analysis" (2009, ApJS, 184, 18)." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 189 352. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/189/2/352. 2010
- Stanke, T., Stutz, A. M., Tobin, J. J., Ali, B., Megeath, S. Thomas, Krause, O., Linz, H., Allen, L., Bergin, Edwin A., Calvet, Nuria, Di Francesco, J., Fischer, W. J., Furlan, E., Hartmann, L., Henning, Thomas, Manoj, P., Maret, Sébastien, Muzerolle, J., Myers, Philip C., Neufeld, David A., Osorio, M., Pontoppidan, K., Poteet, C. A., Watson, D. M., and Wilson, T. 2010. "Hier ist wahrhaftig ein Loch im Himmel. The NGC 1999 dark globule is not a globule." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 518 L94. 2010
- Friesen, R. K., Di Francesco, J., Myers, Philip C., Belloche, A., Shirley, Y. L., Bourke, Tyler L., and André, P. 2010. "The Initial Conditions of Clustered Star Formation. III. The Deuterium Fractionation of the Ophiuchus B2 Core." The Astrophysical Journal, 718 666–682. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/666. 2010
- Winston, E., Megeath, S. Thomas, Wolk, S. J., Spitzbart, B., Gutermuth, R., Allen, L. E., Hernandez, J., Covey, Kevin R., Muzerolle, J., Hora, Joseph L., Myers, Philip C., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2010. "The Properties of X-ray Luminous Young Stellar Objects in the NGC 1333 and Serpens Embedded Clusters." The Astronomical Journal, 140 266–292. 2010
- Dunham, Michael M., Evans, Neal J., Bourke, Tyler L., Myers, Philip C., Huard, Tracy L., and Stutz, Amelia M. 2010. "The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores. IX. Discovery of a Very Low Luminosity Object Driving a Molecular Outflow in the Dense Core L673-7." The Astrophysical Journal, 721 995–1013. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/721/2/995. 2010
- Tsitali, Anastasia E., Bourke, Tyler L., Peterson, Dawn E., Myers, Philip C., Dunham, Michael M., Evans, Neal J., and Huard, Tracy L. 2010. "The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores. X. Star Formation in L673 and CB188." The Astrophysical Journal, 725 2461–2479. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/725/2/2461. 2010
- Wahhaj, Zahed, Cieza, Lucas, Koerner, David W., Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Padgett, Deborah L., Case, April, Keller, James R., Merín, Bruno, Evans, Neal J., II, Harvey, Paul, Sargent, Anneila, van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Allen, Lori E., Blake, Geoffrey A., Brooke, Tim, Chapman, Nicholas, Mundy, Lee, and Myers, Philip C. 2010. "The Spitzer c2d Survey of Weak-line T Tauri Stars. III. The Transition from Primordial Disks." The Astrophysical Journal, 724 835–854. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/724/2/835. 2010
- Gutermuth, R. A., Megeath, S. Thomas, Myers, Philip C., Allen, L. E., Pipher, J. L., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2009. "A Spitzer Survey of Young Stellar Clusters Within One Kiloparsec of the Sun: Cluster Core Extraction and Basic Structural Analysis." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 184 18–83. 2009
- Foster, Jonathan B., Rosolowsky, Erik W., Kauffmann, Jens, Pineda, Jaime E., Borkin, Michelle A., Caselli, Paola, Myers, Philip C., and Goodman, Alyssa A. 2009. "Dense Cores in Perseus: The Influence of Stellar Content and Cluster Environment." The Astrophysical Journal, 696 298–319. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/298. 2009
- di Francesco, James, André, Philippe, and Myers, Philip C. 2009. "Erratum: "Quiescent Dense Gas in Protostellar Clusters: The Ophiuchus A Core" (2004, ApJ, 617, 425)." The Astrophysical Journal, 700 1994. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1994. 2009
- Myers, Philip C. 2009. "Filamentary Structure of Star-forming Complexes." The Astrophysical Journal, 700 1609–1625. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1609. 2009
- Tothill, N. F. H., Löhr, A., Parshley, S. C., Stark, Antony A., Lane, A. P., Harnett, J. I., Wright, G. A., Walker, C. K., Bourke, Tyler L., and Myers, Philip C. 2009. "Large-Scale CO Maps of the Lupus Molecular Cloud Complex." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 185 98–123. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/185/1/98. 2009
- Myers, Philip C. 2009. "On the Distribution of Protostar Masses." The Astrophysical Journal, 706 1341–1352. 2009
- Jørgensen, Jes K., van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Visser, R., Bourke, Tyler L., Wilner, David J., Lommen, D., Hogerheijde, Michiel R., and Myers, Philip C. 2009. "PROSAC: a submillimeter array survey of low-mass protostars. II. The mass evolution of envelopes, disks, and stars from the Class 0 through I stages." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 507 861–879. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912325. 2009
- Stutz, Amelia M., Bourke, Tyler L., Rieke, George H., Bieging, John H., Misselt, Karl A., Myers, Philip C., and Shirley, Yancy L. 2009. "Spitzer Observations of L429: a Near-Collapse or Collapsing Starless Core." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 690 L35–L38. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/L35. 2009
- Friesen, R. K., Di Francesco, J., Shirley, Y. L., and Myers, Philip C. 2009. "The Initial Conditions of Clustered Star Formation. I. NH3 Observations of Dense Cores in Ophiuchus." The Astrophysical Journal, 697 1457–1480. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/1457. 2009
- Evans, Neal J., Dunham, Michael M., Jørgensen, Jes K., Enoch, Melissa L., Merín, Bruno, van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Alcalá, Juan M., Myers, Philip C., Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Huard, Tracy L., Allen, Lori E., Harvey, Paul M., van Kempen, Tim, Blake, Geoffrey A., Koerner, David W., Mundy, Lee G., Padgett, Deborah L., and Sargent, Anneila I. 2009. "The Spitzer c2d Legacy Results: Star-Formation Rates and Efficiencies; Evolution and Lifetimes." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 181 321–350. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/181/2/321. 2009
- Lee, Chang Won, Bourke, Tyler L., Myers, Philip C., Dunham, Mike, Evans, Neal, Lee, Youngung, Huard, Tracy, Wu, Jingwen, Gutermuth, Robert, Kim, Mi-Ryang, and Kang, Hyun Woo. 2009. "The Spitzer c2d Survey of Nearby Dense Cores. V. Discovery of a VeLLO in the "Starless" Dense Core L328." The Astrophysical Journal, 693 1290–1299. 2009
- Jørgensen, Jes K., Johnstone, Doug, Kirk, Helen, Myers, Philip C., Allen, Lori E., and Shirley, Yancy L. 2008. "Current Star Formation in the Ophiuchus and Perseus Molecular Clouds: Constraints and Comparisons from Unbiased Submillimeter and Mid-Infrared Surveys. II." The Astrophysical Journal, 683 822–843. https://doi.org/10.1086/589956. 2008
- Dunham, Michael M., Crapsi, Antonio, Evans, Neal J., II, Bourke, Tyler L., Huard, Tracy L., Myers, Philip C., and Kauffmann, Jens. 2008. "Identifying the Low-Luminosity Population of Embedded Protostars in the c2d Observations of Clouds and Cores." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 179 249–282. 2008
- Myers, Philip C. 2008. "Protostar Mass due to Infall and Dispersal." The Astrophysical Journal, 687 340–353. 2008
- Gutermuth, R. A., Myers, Philip C., Megeath, S. Thomas, Allen, L. E., Pipher, J. L., Muzerolle, J., Porras, A., Winston, E., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2008. "Spitzer Observations of NGC 1333: A Study of Structure and Evolution in a Nearby Embedded Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal, 674 336–356. 2008
- Allen, Thomas S., Pipher, Judith L., Gutermuth, Robert A., Megeath, S. Thomas, Adams, Joseph D., Herter, Terry L., Williams, Jonathan P., Goetz-Bixby, Jennifer A., Allen, Lori E., and Myers, Philip C. 2008. "Spitzer, Near-Infrared, and Submillimeter Imaging of the Relatively Sparse Young Cluster, Lynds 988e." The Astrophysical Journal, 675 491–506. 2008
- Luhman, K. L., Allen, L. E., Allen, P. R., Gutermuth, R. A., Hartmann, L., Mamajek, E. E., Megeath, S. Thomas, Myers, Philip C., and Fazio, Giovanni G. 2008. "The Disk Population of the Chamaeleon I Star-forming Region." The Astrophysical Journal, 675 1375–1406. 2008
- Enoch, Melissa L., Evans, Neal J., II, Sargent, Anneila I., Glenn, Jason, Rosolowsky, Erik, and Myers, Philip C. 2008. "The Mass Distribution and Lifetime of Prestellar Cores in Perseus, Serpens, and Ophiuchus." The Astrophysical Journal, 684 1240–1259. https://doi.org/10.1086/589963. 2008
- Gutermuth, R. A., Bourke, Tyler L., Allen, L. E., Myers, Philip C., Megeath, S. Thomas, Matthews, B. C., Jorgensen, J. K., Di Francesco, J., Ward-Thompson, D., Huard, T. L., Brooke, T. Y., Dunham, M. M., Cieza, L. A., Harvey, P. M., and Chapman, N. L. 2008. "The Spitzer Gould Belt Survey of Large Nearby Interstellar Clouds: Discovery of a Dense Embedded Cluster in the Serpens-Aquila Rift." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 673 L151–L154. 2008
- Padgett, Deborah L., Rebull, Luisa M., Stapelfeldt, Karl R., Chapman, Nicholas L., Lai, Shih Ping, Mundy, Lee G., Evans, Neal J., II, Brooke, Timothy Y., Cieza, Lucas A., Spiesman, William J., Noriega-Crespo, Alberto, McCabe, Caer Eve, Allen, Lori E., Blake, Geoffrey A., Harvey, Paul M., Huard, Tracy L., Jorgensen, Jes K., Koerner, David W., Myers, Philip C., Sargent, Annelia I., Teuben, Peter, van Dishoeck, Ewine F., Wahhaj, Zahed, and Young, Kaisa E. 2008. "The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. VII. Ophiuchus Observed with MIPS." The Astrophysical Journal, 672 1013–1037. 2008
- Proszkow, Eva-Marie and Myers, Philip C. 2008. "Tidal Disruption of Protoclusters in Giant Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 683 226–237. https://doi.org/10.1086/589767. 2008
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