Control of star formation by supersonic turbulence

MM Mac Low, RS Klessen - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Understanding the formation of stars in galaxies is central to much of modern astrophysics.
However, a quantitative prediction of the star formation rate and the initial distribution of …

Interstellar turbulence I: observations and processes

BG Elmegreen, J Scalo - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Turbulence affects the structure and motions of nearly all temperature and density
regimes in the interstellar gas. This two-part review summarizes the observations, theory …

A census of dense cores in the Aquila cloud complex: SPIRE/PACS observations from the Herschel Gould Belt survey

V Könyves, P André, A Men'Shchikov… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
We present and discuss the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey (HGBS) observations
in an~ 11 deg 2 area of the Aquila molecular cloud complex at d~ 260 pc, imaged with the …

[HTML][HTML] Mass, luminosity, and line width relations of Galactic molecular clouds

PM Solomon, AR Rivolo, J Barrett… - … Journal, Part 1 (ISSN …, 1987 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Mass, luminosity, and line width relations of Galactic molecular clouds ADS Classic is now
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Cold dark clouds: the initial conditions for star formation

EA Bergin, M Tafalla - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Cold dark clouds are nearby members of the densest and coldest phase in the Galactic
interstellar medium, and represent the most accessible sites where stars like our Sun are …

Comparing the statistics of interstellar turbulence in simulations and observations-Solenoidal versus compressive turbulence forcing

C Federrath, J Roman-Duval, RS Klessen… - Astronomy & …, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. Density and velocity fluctuations on virtually all scales observed with modern
telescopes show that molecular clouds (MCs) are turbulent. The forcing and structural …

The stellar initial mass function from turbulent fragmentation

P Padoan, Å Nordlund - The Astrophysical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
The morphology and kinematics of molecular clouds (MCs) are best explained as the
consequence of supersonic turbulence. Supersonic turbulence fragments MCs into dense …

The origin of massive stars: The inertial-inflow model

P Padoan, L Pan, M Juvela, T Haugbølle… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We address the problem of the origin of massive stars, namely the origin, path, and
timescale of the mass flows that create them. Based on extensive numerical simulations, we …

The universality of the stellar initial mass function

P Padoan, Å Nordlund… - Monthly Notices of the …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is universal in the sense that its
functional form arises as a consequence of the statistics of random supersonic flows. A …

On the internal structure of starless cores-I. Physical conditions and the distribution of CO, CS, N2H, and NH3 in L1498 and L1517B

M Tafalla, PC Myers, P Caselli… - Astronomy & …, 2004 - aanda.org
We have characterized the physical structure and chemical composition of two close-to-
round starless cores in Taurus-Auriga, L1498 and L1517B. Our analysis is based on high …