Star formation in unbound giant molecular clouds: The origin of OB associations?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 359, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 809-818

  Clark, Paul C ^a   Bonnell, Ian A ^a   Zinnecker, Hans ^b   Bate, Matthew R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ISM: clouds; Stars: formation; Stars: general; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS;

CROSSING TIME; GIANT MOLECULAR CLOUDS; ISM : CLOUDS; MASS FUNCTIONS; OB ASSOCIATION; STAR CLUSTERS; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS FORMATION; STARS: GENERAL; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION;

CLOUDS;

EID: 19844368911     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08942.x     Document Type: Article

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