Integral Shaped Filament

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The Integral Shaped Filament is a prominent, elongated star-forming structure of dense gas and dust within the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, notable for hosting active regions of massive and low-mass star formation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical structure
molecular cloud filament
belongsToGalaxy Milky Way NERFINISHED
composedOf dense molecular gas
interstellar dust
contains OMC-1 NERFINISHED
OMC-2 NERFINISHED
OMC-3 NERFINISHED
OMC-4 NERFINISHED
Orion Nebula Cluster NERFINISHED
dense cores
embedded protostars
prestellar cores
young stellar objects
distanceFromEarth approximately 400–450 parsecs
embeddedIn giant molecular cloud environment
environmentType giant molecular filament
high-mass star-forming region
hasAlternativeName ISF NERFINISHED
hasApproximateLength several parsecs
hasKinematicProperty supersonic turbulence
velocity gradients along filament
hasMagneticFieldProperty ordered magnetic field components
hasMorphology elongated filament
hasPhysicalProperty cold temperature
high column density
high volume density
hasRole backbone of star-forming region in Orion A
hasShape integral-sign-like
hasStarFormationActivity clustered
ongoing
hasStarFormationMode distributed low-mass star formation
massive star-forming clumps
isSiteOf low-mass star formation
massive star formation
locatedIn Orion A molecular cloud NERFINISHED
locatedInConstellation Orion NERFINISHED
locatedInGalacticStructure Orion Arm NERFINISHED
observedBy Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array NERFINISHED
Herschel Space Observatory NERFINISHED
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope NERFINISHED
partOf Orion Molecular Cloud Complex NERFINISHED
redshift approximately 0 (Galactic object)
studiedInContextOf cluster formation
filamentary star formation
massive star formation
tracedByEmission CO rotational lines
dust continuum emission

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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex contains Integral Shaped Filament