A model for the onset of self-gravitation and star formation in molecular gas governed by galactic forces: II. the bottleneck to collapse set by cloud-environment decoupling
In Meidt et al., we showed that gas kinematics on the scale of individual molecular clouds are not entirely dominated by self-gravity but also track a component that originates with orbital motion in the potential of the host galaxy. This agrees with observed cloud line widths, which show systematic...
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2020 March 31
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The astrophysical journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 892, Issue: 2 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4357 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7000 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7000
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| Author Notes: | Sharon E. Meidt, Simon C.O. Glover, J.M. Diederik Kruijssen, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky, Annie Hughes, Eva Schinnerer, Andreas Schruba, Antonio Usero, Frank Bigiel, Guillermo Blanc, Mélanie Chevance, Jerome Pety, Miguel Querejeta, and Dyas Utomo |
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