Thushara Pillai
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Thushara Pillai's Degrees
- Masters Physics Delhi University
- Bachelors Physics Delhi University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thushara Pillai is an Indian astrophysicist and astronomer with a senior research scientist position at Boston University's Institute for Astrophysical Research. Her research interests have included molecular clouds, high-mass star formation, magnetic fields, astrochemistry, and the Galactic Center. She is known for her work that looked to understand star formation by observing magnetized interstellar clouds, and Pillai is the first astronomer to capture images of magnetic fields reorienting near areas of star formation.
Thushara Pillai's Published Works
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Published Works
- Ammonia in infrared dark clouds (2006) (194)
- TADPOL: A 1.3 mm SURVEY OF DUST POLARIZATION IN STAR-FORMING CORES AND REGIONS (2013) (166)
- LOW VIRIAL PARAMETERS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR HIGH-MASS STAR FORMATION AND MAGNETIC FIELDS (2013) (154)
- HOW MANY INFRARED DARK CLOUDS CAN FORM MASSIVE STARS AND CLUSTERS? (2010) (151)
- FRAGMENTATION AT THE EARLIEST PHASE OF MASSIVE STAR FORMATION (2009) (151)
- Molecular gas kinematics within the central 250 pc of the Milky Way (2016) (139)
- Dense gas in the Galactic central molecular zone is warm and heated by turbulence (2015) (138)
- Hierarchical fragmentation and differential star formation in the Galactic ‘Snake’: infrared dark cloud G11.11−0.12 (2014) (137)
- ATLASGAL - properties of a complete sample of Galactic clumps (2017) (124)
- MISALIGNMENT OF MAGNETIC FIELDS AND OUTFLOWS IN PROTOSTELLAR CORES (2012) (119)
- MAGNETIC FIELDS IN HIGH-MASS INFRARED DARK CLOUDS (2014) (111)
- THE MASS–SIZE RELATION FROM CLOUDS TO CORES. II. SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD CLOUDS (2010) (102)
- THE GALACTIC CENTER CLOUD G0.253+0.016: A MASSIVE DENSE CLOUD WITH LOW STAR FORMATION POTENTIAL (2013) (82)
- UNVEILING A NETWORK OF PARALLEL FILAMENTS IN THE INFRARED DARK CLOUD G14.225−0.506 (2012) (77)
- High mass star formation in the infrared dark cloud G11.11-0.12 (2005) (72)
- The Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Survey. I. A Steep Linewidth-Size Relation & Suppression of Star Formation (2016) (70)
- NH3 Observations of the Infrared Dark Cloud G28.34+0.06 (2007) (62)
- THE MASS–SIZE RELATION FROM CLOUDS TO CORES. I. A NEW PROBE OF STRUCTURE IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS (2010) (60)
- IS PROTOSTELLAR HEATING SUFFICIENT TO HALT FRAGMENTATION? A CASE STUDY OF THE MASSIVE PROTOCLUSTER G8.68−0.37 (2010) (60)
- The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey (2018) (60)
- Masers as signposts of high-mass protostars A water maser survey of methanol maser sources (2005) (53)
- The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG): Molecular Cloud Evolution in the Central Molecular Zone (2017) (53)
- Probing the initial conditions of high-mass star formation (2007) (52)
- DISTINCT CHEMICAL REGIONS IN THE “PRESTELLAR” INFRARED DARK CLOUD G028.23−00.19 (2013) (50)
- The Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Survey. II. A Lack of Dense Gas & Cloud Evolution along Galactic Center Orbits (2016) (36)
- ‘The Brick’ is not abrick: a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of the central molecular zone cloud G0.253+0.016 (2019) (33)
- WHAT IS CONTROLLING THE FRAGMENTATION IN THE INFRARED DARK CLOUD G14.225–0.506?: DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FRAGMENTATION IN TWIN HUBS (2016) (33)
- Galactocentric variation of the gas-to-dust ratio and its relation with metallicity (2017) (32)
- THE DEUTERIUM FRACTION IN MASSIVE STARLESS CORES AND DYNAMICAL IMPLICATIONS (2015) (32)
- Star formation in a high-pressure environment: an SMA view of the Galactic Centre dust ridge (2017) (30)
- Initial conditions for massive star birth–Infrared dark clouds (2005) (30)
- Discovery of a sub-Keplerian disk with jet around a 20Msun young star. ALMA observations of G023.01-00.41. (2018) (28)
- The Molecular Gas Environment in the 20 km s−1 Cloud in the Central Molecular Zone (2017) (28)
- Star Formation Rates of Massive Molecular Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone (2019) (25)
- Evidence of a SiO collimated outflow from a massive YSO in IRAS 17233–3606 (2013) (24)
- Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South (2020) (23)
- Formation of Massive Protostellar Clusters—Observations of Massive 70 μm Dark Molecular Clouds (2019) (23)
- DEEPLY EMBEDDED PROTOSTELLAR POPULATION IN THE 20 km s−1 CLOUD OF THE CENTRAL MOLECULAR ZONE (2015) (23)
- The RMS survey: ammonia mapping of the environment of massive young stellar objects (2015) (21)
- Massive and low-mass protostars in massive “starless” cores (2019) (20)
- CN Zeeman and dust polarization in a high-mass cold clump (2016) (20)
- High-mass star-forming cloud G0.38+0.04 in the Galactic Center Dust Ridge contains H2CO and SiO masers (2015) (18)
- HOT CORE, OUTFLOWS, AND MAGNETIC FIELDS IN W43-MM1 (G30.79 FIR 10) (2013) (18)
- H2D+ IN THE HIGH-MASS STAR-FORMING REGION CYGNUS X (2012) (18)
- THE SMALL-SCALE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND FRAGMENTATION DIFFERENCE OF TWO EMBEDDED INTERMEDIATE-MASS PROTOSTARS IN ORION (2012) (18)
- Temperature structures in Galactic Center clouds - Direct evidence for gas heating via turbulence (2016) (17)
- High-angular resolution observations of methanol in the infrared dark cloud core G11.11-0.12P1 (2011) (15)
- CMZoom: Survey Overview and First Data Release (2020) (15)
- The molecular distribution of the IRDC G351.77-0.51 (2011) (15)
- A possible observational bias in the estimation of the virial parameter in virialized clumps (2018) (14)
- A timeline for massive star-forming regions via combined observation of o-H2D+ and N2D+ (2019) (12)
- On the size of the CO-depletion radius in the IRDC G351.77−0.51 (2019) (11)
- Magnetic Fields in the Early Stages of Massive Star Formation as Revealed by ALMA (2020) (11)
- NGC 7538 IRS. 1. INTERACTION OF A POLARIZED DUST SPIRAL AND A MOLECULAR OUTFLOW (2014) (10)
- ATLASGAL – molecular fingerprints of a sample of massive star-forming clumps★ (2019) (10)
- Survey of ortho-H2D+ in high-mass star-forming regions (2020) (10)
- Volume density thresholds for overall star formation imply mass–size thresholds for massive star formation (2011) (10)
- Star formation in ‘the Brick’: ALMA reveals an active protocluster in the Galactic centre cloud G0.253+0.016 (2021) (8)
- CMZoom. II. Catalog of Compact Submillimeter Dust Continuum Sources in the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone (2020) (8)
- ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: Ubiquitous Protostellar Outflows (2021) (7)
- H II regions and high-mass starless clump candidates (2020) (7)
- A Low-mass Cold and Quiescent Core Population in a Massive Star Protocluster (2021) (7)
- Discovery of a sub-Keplerian disk with jet around a 20 M⊙ young star (2019) (6)
- Characterising the high-mass star forming filament G351.776–0.527 with Herschel and APEX dust continuum and gas observations (2018) (6)
- The Core Mass Function in the Orion Nebula Cluster Region: What Determines the Final Stellar Masses? (2021) (5)
- Magnetic Field Uniformity Across the GF 9-2 YSO, L1082C Dense Core, and GF 9 Filamentary Dark Cloud (2018) (5)
- A Brief Update on the CMZoom Survey (2016) (4)
- ATLASGAL -- Evolutionary trends in high-mass star formation (2021) (4)
- SCOUSE: Semi-automated multi-COmponent Universal Spectral-line fitting Engine (2016) (4)
- Sulphur and carbon isotopes towards Galactic centre clouds (2020) (3)
- Physical conditions in the warped accretion disk of a massive star. 349 GHz ALMA observations of G023.01-00.41 (2021) (3)
- CARMA observations of magnetic fields in star-forming filaments (2015) (2)
- The Haystack Telescope as an Astronomical Instrument (2023) (2)
- Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Filaments in Different Environments (2017) (2)
- The Sequential Growth of Star Formation Seeds in the Galactic Snake (2013) (1)
- Gas Dynamics and Magnetic Fields in Infrared Dark Clouds (2015) (1)
- The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey—Data Release (2021) (1)
- The magnetic field in the dense photodissociation region of DR 21 (2020) (1)
- The Distribution of Angles Between Outflows and Magnetic Fields in Low-mass Protostellar Cores (2013) (1)
- Discovery of an infalling disk with jet around a 20Msun young star. ALMA observations of G023.01-00.41 (2018) (1)
- Erratum: “Magnetic Field Uniformity Across the GF 9-2 YSO, L1082C Dense Core, and GF 9 Filamentary Dark Cloud” (2018, ApJ, 867, 79) (2018) (0)
- How maser observations unravel the gas motions in the Galactic Center (2017) (0)
- The CARMA-NRO Orion Survey-Filamentary structure as seen in C18O emission (2019) (0)
- The Cluster Environment of High Mass Protostars (2010) (0)
- High Mass Star Formation in the Vicinity of a Young Massive Protocluster IRAS 04073+5102 (SH 209) (2015) (0)
- How hot is the molecular gas in the Galactic Center? (2016) (0)
- Infall and outflow towards high-mass starless clump candidates (2023) (0)
- Temperature distribution in the Infrared Dark Cloud G351.77-00.51 (2012) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: 8 massive proto-cluster clumps observations (Zhang+, 2019) (2019) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: RMS survey (Urquhart+, 2015) (2016) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Temperature structures in Galactic center clouds (Immer+, 2016) (2016) (0)
- Living on the edge of the Milky Way's central molecular zone. G1.3 is the more likely candidate for gas accretion into the CMZ (2022) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Complete sample of Galactic clump properties (Urquhart+, 2018) (2018) (0)
- The Magnetic Field in the Milky Way Filamentary Bone G47 (2022) (0)
- In The Quest For Stokes V - Science Cases And Technical Challenges (2017) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: 1.3mm polarization maps of star-forming cores & SFRs (Hull+, 2014) (2014) (0)
- Fragmentation of the High-mass “Starless” Core G10.21-0.31: A Coherent Evolutionary Picture for Star Formation (2023) (0)
- A timeline for massive star-forming regions via deuterium chemistry (2020) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: G29.96-0.02 and G35.20-1.74 1mm and 3mm maps (Pillai+, 2011) (2011) (0)
- Near-infrared Polarization from Unresolved Disks around Brown Dwarfs and Young Stellar Objects (2021) (0)
- Erratum “A Low-mass Cold and Quiescent Core Population in a Massive Star Protocluster” (2021, ApJL, 912, L7) (2021) (0)
- The SQUALO project (Star formation in QUiescent And Luminous Objects) I: clump-fed accretion mechanism in high-mass star-forming objects (2023) (0)
- High-angular resolution observations of methanol in the infrared dark cloud core G 11 . 11-0 . 12 P 1 , (2011) (0)
- High deuteration towards a new sample of massive cold cores (2005) (0)
- G351.77–0.51: ridge formation caught in the act (2015) (0)
- Mapping the large scale CO-depletion in the IRDC G351.77-0.51. (2019) (0)
- The distance to the Serpens South cluster from H2O masers (2023) (0)
- Lessons Learned from Six Decades of Radio Polarimetry (2018) (0)
- Discovery of 22 GHz Water Masers in the Serpens South Region (2021) (0)
- Little Massive Substructure in CMZ Molecular Clouds (2015) (0)
- The Initial Conditions of High Mass Star-Formation (2006) (0)
- CMZoom III: Spectral Line Data Release (2023) (0)
- High-resolution CARMA Observation of Molecular Gas in the North America and Pelican Nebulae (2021) (0)
- A new population of massive high extinction clouds (2007) (0)
- SMA observations towards massive clouds in the central molecular zone (2013) (0)
- Internal Structure of High Mass Pre-Protocluster Cores (2008) (0)
- Binary Formation in a 100 $\mu$m-dark Massive Core (2023) (0)
- Structure of Galactic Center Clouds seen at High Resolution (2013) (0)
- Deeply Embedded Protostellar Population in the Central Molecular Zone Suggested by H2O Masers and Dense Cores (2016) (0)
- The SMA Legacy Survey of the Central Molecular Zone (2015) (0)
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