Interstellar turbulence I: observations and processes

BG Elmegreen, J Scalo - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Turbulence affects the structure and motions of nearly all temperature and density
regimes in the interstellar gas. This two-part review summarizes the observations, theory …

Magnetic fields in molecular clouds

RM Crutcher - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
This review examines observations of magnetic fields in molecular clouds and what those
observations tell us about the theory of molecular cloud evolution and star formation. First …

Cold dark clouds: the initial conditions for star formation

EA Bergin, M Tafalla - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Cold dark clouds are nearby members of the densest and coldest phase in the Galactic
interstellar medium, and represent the most accessible sites where stars like our Sun are …

From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds: toward a new paradigm for star formation

P André, J Di Francesco… - … and Planets VI, 2014 - books.google.com
Recent studies of the nearest star-forming clouds of the Galaxy at submillimeter wavelengths
with the Herschel Space Observatory have provided us with unprecedented images of the …

The physics of star formation

RB Larson - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Our current understanding of the physical processes of star formation is reviewed, with
emphasis on processes occurring in molecular clouds like those observed nearby. The …

Magnetic fields in the formation of sun-like stars

JM Girart, R Rao, DP Marrone - Science, 2006 - science.org
We report high-angular-resolution measurements of polarized dust emission toward the low-
mass protostellar system NGC 1333 IRAS 4A. We show that in this system the observed …

Stochastic modelling of star-formation histories II: star-formation variability from molecular clouds and gas inflow

S Tacchella, JC Forbes, N Caplar - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A key uncertainty in galaxy evolution is the physics regulating star formation,
ranging from small-scale processes related to the life-cycle of molecular clouds within …

An imprint of molecular cloud magnetization in the morphology of the dust polarized emission

JD Soler, P Hennebelle, PG Martin… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a morphological imprint of magnetization found when considering the relative
orientation of the magnetic field direction with respect to the density structures in simulated …

[HTML][HTML] Dust coagulation in dense molecular clouds: the formation of fluffy aggregates

V Ossenkopf - Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361) …, 1993 - adsabs.harvard.edu
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Helical fields and filamentary molecular clouds—I

JD Fiege, RE Pudritz - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
We study the equilibrium of pressure truncated, filamentary molecular clouds that are
threaded by rather general helical magnetic fields. We first apply the virial theorem to …