Larson's third law and the universality of molecular cloud structure

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 519, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Lombardi, M ^a,b   Alves, J ^c   Lada, C J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

dust, extinction; ISM: clouds; ISM: structure; methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

COLUMN DENSITY; DUST , EXTINCTION; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXTINCTION THRESHOLD; ISM : CLOUDS; ISM: STRUCTURE; LOG-NORMAL; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; NEAR INFRARED; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCALING RELATIONS; SURFACE MASS; UNIVERSAL STRUCTURES;

CARBON MONOXIDE; DUST;

CLOUDS;

EID: 77957358824     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015282     Document Type: Article

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