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The Musca cloud: A 6 pc-long velocity-coherent, sonic filament
A. Hacar, J. Kainulainen, M. Tafalla +2
Filaments play a central role in the molecular clouds' evolution, but their internal dynamical properties remain poorly characterized. To further explore the physical state of thes…
Filament Fragmentation in High-Mass Star Formation
H. Beuther, S. E. Ragan, K. Johnston +3
Aims: We resolve the length-scales for filament formation and fragmentation (res. <=0.1pc), in particular the Jeans length and cylinder fragmentation scale. Methods: We observed th…
Gravitational fragmentation caught in the act: the filamentary Musca molecular cloud
Jouni Kainulainen, Alvaro Hacar, João Alves +3
Filamentary structures are common in molecular clouds. Explaining how they fragment to dense cores is a missing step in understanding their role in star formation. We perform a cas…