A role for self-gravity at multiple length scales in the process of star formation

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7225, 2009, Pages 63-66

  Goodman, Alyssa A ^a,b   Rosolowsky, Erik W ^b,c   Borkin, Michelle A ^a,e   Foster, Jonathan B ^b   Halle, Michael ^a,d   Kauffmann, Jens ^a,b   Pineda, Jaime E ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; GRAVITY; MODELING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DUST; FIELD EMISSION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GAS; GRAVITY; ISOTHERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 58149250443     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07609     Document Type: Article

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