How many Infrared Dark Clouds can form massive stars and clusters?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 723, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Kauffmann, Jens ^a   Pillai, Thushara ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ISM: clouds; Methods: data analysis; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649279272     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/723/1/L7     Document Type: Article

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