Author: Rowan Johnston SmithPublisher:
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Category : Molecular clouds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Earliest Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds
Author: Rowan Johnston SmithPublisher:
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Category : Molecular clouds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation
Author: E. FalgaronePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401133840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
A few years ago, a motivation for organizing one more IAU Symposium on star for mation in Grenoble, was the anticipated completion of the IRAM interferometer on the Plateau de Bures, close to Grenoble. This choice was also a sort of late celebration of the genius of Joseph Fourier, born in Grenoble, whose work is the very fondation of in terferometry. At the time when we finally announced the advent of this conference, the first reactions we got from the community were expressions of saturation and even reject, the Symposium being unfortunately scheduled almost simultaneously as two other major meetings on closely related topics, and sponsored by different organizations. A wave of disappointment then reached the organizers. Some of us were enthusiastic enough to help the others overcome their discouragement. Let them be thanked here. There was, indeed, a deeper motivation for organizing this conference. It was to trigger the meeting and communication of physicists and astrophysicists since many of the difficulties met now in understanding the physics of the interstellar medium and its evolution toward star formation are common to several, if not most, other fields of physics. They are assigned to one origin: complexity.
The Earliest Stages of Massive Clustered Star Formation
Author: Ke WangPublisher:
ISBN: 9783662449707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Fragmentation of molecular clouds
Author: Ralf S. KlessenFragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation
Author: E. FalgaronePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780792311591
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A few years ago, a motivation for organizing one more IAU Symposium on star for mation in Grenoble, was the anticipated completion of the IRAM interferometer on the Plateau de Bures, close to Grenoble. This choice was also a sort of late celebration of the genius of Joseph Fourier, born in Grenoble, whose work is the very fondation of in terferometry. At the time when we finally announced the advent of this conference, the first reactions we got from the community were expressions of saturation and even reject, the Symposium being unfortunately scheduled almost simultaneously as two other major meetings on closely related topics, and sponsored by different organizations. A wave of disappointment then reached the organizers. Some of us were enthusiastic enough to help the others overcome their discouragement. Let them be thanked here. There was, indeed, a deeper motivation for organizing this conference. It was to trigger the meeting and communication of physicists and astrophysicists since many of the difficulties met now in understanding the physics of the interstellar medium and its evolution toward star formation are common to several, if not most, other fields of physics. They are assigned to one origin: complexity.
Observational Studies of Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds
Author: Riwaj PokhrelPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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In this dissertation, I explore fragmentation physics in multiple scales in nearby molecular clouds and discuss some implications of fragmentation for cloud structure formation and star formation, primarily by analyzing multi-wavelength observations of dust emission. First, I tested the complete thermal and combined thermal and nonthermal support mechanisms that balance gravitational contraction at multiple scales in the Perseus molecular cloud. I found that the observed multiscale structures in Perseus are consistent with an inefficient thermal Jeans fragmentation, where the Jeans efficiency increases from the largest scale ($\gtrsim$10s of pc) to the smallest scale ($\sim$10s of AU). Next, I studied the effect of the formation of dense self-gravitating structures and star formation on the gas distribution in terms of its column density distribution function (N-PDF). I found that the evolutionary effect of clouds has corresponding changes on the N-PDF functional form, with a lognormal shape in diffuse regions that have negligible star formation, a lognormal and two power-laws in denser regions with moderate star formation, and a lognormal and one power-law in the densest regions with highly efficient clustered star formation. Finally, I explored the variations of star and gas surface densities in twelve molecular clouds using various techniques. I found that the stellar mass surface density of the recently formed stars varies as the square of the gas mass surface density in all twelve clouds. Also, I do not find any evidence of a column density threshold for efficient star formation.
Dynamics of molecular clouds, turbulent fragmentation and star formation
Author: P. PadoanPhysical Processes in Interstellar Clouds
Author: G.E. MorfillPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400939450
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
This book is the result of a meeting held in August, 1986 in Irsee, West Germany. As the title suggests, the aim of the meeting was to discuss physical processes in interstellar clouds, determine the current status, aims and future direction of the research in this area. Interstellar clouds contain nearly all the mass of diffuse gas in our galaxy, some 10% of the total galactic mass. They represent the birth site for stars and the final "dumping ground" for matter ejected from stars (winds, ex plosive ejecta) and thus play an integral part in the galactic recycling of material. Not only are the clouds important for the structure and evolution of our galaxy, they are also interesting objects of study "per se". Because of their vast scales (up to about 100 parsec), extreme temperatures (as low as about lOOK), and long life 8 times (estimated a about 10 years) a number of physical and chemical processes occur in these environments, which we are not able to study elesewhere, certainly not in laboratories. It is for this reason that the meeting, and hence this book, was organized in such a way that firstly the latest observational results were sum m~ized, going from the global, large scales, to finer details and dynamics, then progressing onwards to the processes -dynamical, chemical, electromagnetic, etc.
Recent Advances in the Collapse and Fragmentation of Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores
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Languages : en
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The formation of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) sets the stage for the formation of protostellar systems by the gravitational collapse of dense regions within the GMC that fragment into smaller core components that in turn condense into stars. Developing a comprehensive theory of star formation remains one of the most elusive, and most important, goals of theoretical astrophysics. Inherent in the difficulty in attaining this goal is that the gravitational collapse depends critically upon initial conditions within the cores which only recently have been known with sufficient accuracy to permit a realistic theoretical attack on the problem. Observations of stars in the vicinity of the Sun show that binary systems are prevalent and appear to be a general outcome of the collapse and fragmentation process. Despite years of progress, theoretical studies have still not determined why binary stars occur with such frequency, or indeed, even what processes determine the transition from single stars to binaries and thence to multiple stellar systems. One of the major goals of this research is to understand the nature of the formation of binary and multiple stellar systems with typical low mass stars 0.2 to 3 M{sub {circle_dot}} and the physical properties of these systems. Basic questions concerning this process remain unanswered. What determines the fraction of an unstable cloud that will fragment into protostellar objects? What determines the pattern of stellar clustering into binaries and multiple systems? Even after fragmentation occurs, we have little understanding of the subsequent collapse. Consequently, it is unclear how the mass distribution of fragments maps onto eventual stellar masses, something we must understand to explain the stellar initial mass function (IMF). We will first discuss the development of the numerical methodology that will contribute to answering these questions. This technology consists of a 3D parallel, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) self-gravitational, radiation-hydrodynamics code that we have developed. We will present new results for the gravitational collapse and fragmentation of marginally stable turbulent molecular cloud cores and follow the collapse of high mass fragments as they interact with the radiation of the protostars forming at their centers. We will discuss the theoretical difficulties in forming binary stars and the role of turbulence in their formation.
Author: Shashwata Ganguly