Death of the Immortal Molecular Cloud: Resolution Dependence of the Gas-Star Formation Relation Rules out Decoupling by Stellar Drift

J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Mélanie Chevance, Steven N. Longmore +3

Recent observations have demonstrated that giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are short-lived entities, surviving for the order of a dynamical time before turning a few percent of their…