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The Star Formation Rate of Molecular Clouds
Paolo Padoan, Christoph Federrath, Gilles Chabrier +5
We review recent advances in the analytical and numerical modeling of the star formation rate in molecular clouds and discuss the available observational constraints. We focus on m…
Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations of Protostellar Jets and Turbulent Dynamos
Terrence S. Tricco, Daniel J. Price, Christoph Federrath +1
We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of M…
A measurement of the turbulence-driven density distribution in a non-star-forming molecular cloud
Adam Ginsburg, Christoph Federrath, Jeremy Darling
Molecular clouds are supersonically turbulent. This turbulence governs the initial mass function and the star formation rate. In order to understand the details of star formation,…
The origin of physical variations in the star formation law
Christoph Federrath
Observations of external galaxies and of local star-forming clouds in the Milky Way have suggested a variety of star formation laws, i.e., simple direct relations between the colum…
On the universality of supersonic turbulence
Christoph Federrath
Compressible turbulence shapes the structure of the interstellar medium of our Galaxy and likely plays an important role also during structure formation in the early Universe. The…
Connection between dense gas mass fraction, turbulence driving, and star formation efficiency of molecular clouds
Jouni Kainulainen, Christoph Federrath, Thomas Henning
We examine the physical parameters that affect the accumulation of gas in molecular clouds to high column densities where the formation of stars takes place. In particular, we anal…