The structure of molecular clouds and the universality of the clump mass function

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 391, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1091-1099

  Smith, Rowan J ^a   Clark, Paul C ^b   Bonnell, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ISM: clouds; ISM: structure; Stars: formation; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FUNCTIONS; STARS;

INITIAL MASS; ISM : CLOUDS; ISM: STRUCTURE; MASS FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; STAR: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; STARS FORMATION; STARS: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; STELLARS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 57149144012     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13970.x     Document Type: Article

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