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Polytropes: Implications for Molecular Clouds and Dark Matter
Christopher F. McKee
Polytropic models are reasonably successful in acounting for the observed features of molecular clouds. Multi-pressure polytropes include the various pressure components that are i…
Fragmentation and Star Formation in Turbulent Cores
R. I Klein, R. T. Fisher, C. F. McKee
We examine the conditions under which binary and multiple stars may form out of turbulent molecular cloud cores using high resolution 3-D, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynam…
The Structure and Evolution of Molecular Clouds: from Clumps to Cores to the IMF
Jonathan P. Williams, Leo Blitz, Christopher F. McKee
We review the progress that has been made in observing and analyzing molecular cloud structure in recent years. Structures are self-similar over a wide range of scales with similar…
The Dynamical Structure and Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds
Christopher F. McKee
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the sites of star formation in the Galaxy. Many of their properties can be understood in terms of a model in which the GMCs and the star-forming c…