Massive star formation in 100,000 years from turbulent and pressurized molecular clouds

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6876, 2002, Pages 59-61

  McKee, Christopher F ^a   Tan, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ASTROPHYSICS; HEAVY METALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

MOLECULAR CLOUDS;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUD; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METEOROLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0037034877     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416059a     Document Type: Article

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