ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
The 3D motion of the Interstellar Medium with ESO and ESA telescopes
The current model for the structure of the local Milky Way is in crisis. Data from the ESA Gaia mission has overthrown the 150-year-old paradigm for the gas distribution in the local Milky Way, a 500 pc ring known as Gould’s Belt. In the newly emerging view, local star-forming regions are connected by lower-density gas. They are part of a new organizational unit: undulating, coherent, and linear Galactic-scale gas structures. What is the origin of these kpc-long structures, how do star-forming regions form and disperse inside them, and are they related to the traditional view of spiral arms? Underpinning these questions lies a critical measurement currently beyond reach: tracing the gas…
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