The formation of stars by gravitational collapse rather than competitive accretion

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7066, 2005, Pages 332-334

  Krumholz, Mark R ^a   McKee, Christopher F ^b   Klein, Richard I ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; PLANETS;

FREE-FLOATING PLANETS; GRAVITATION COLLAPSE; SOLAR MASSES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENT; GAS; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORY; VELOCITY;

EID: 27844510777     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04280     Document Type: Article

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