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Detailed Studies of Cloud Cores: Probing the Initial Conditions for Protostellar Collapse
Philippe Andre, Arnaud Belloche, Patrick Hennebelle +1
Improving our understanding of the earliest stages of star formation is crucial to gain insight into the origin of stellar masses, multiple systems, and protoplanetary disks. We di…
astro-ph2003
The Structure of Cold Molecular Cloud Cores
D. Ward-Thompson, D. J. Nutter, J. M. Kirk +1
A brief summary is presented of our current knowledge of the structure of cold molecular cloud cores that do not contain protostars, sometimes known as starless cores. The most cen…