Discovery of a Compact Hub-Filament System in G286.21+0.17 with JWST and ALMA: Insights into Protocluster Formation and Competitive Accretion

arXiv:2605.14693 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-05-14 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, the manuscript consists of 19 pages, 14 figures, and 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 96× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper

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• The influence of magnetic fields in Cloud-Cloud Collisions
• ATOMS-QUARKS survey: Inflow and infall in massive protocluster G318.049+00.086: Evidence of competitive accretion

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