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The Properties of Bound and Unbound Molecular Cloud Populations Formed in Galactic Disc Simulations
Rachel L. Ward, Samantha M. Benincasa, James Wadsley +2
We explore the effect of galactic environment on properties of molecular clouds. Using clouds formed in a large-scale galactic disc simulation, we measure the observable properties…
Evolving Molecular Cloud Structure and the Column Density Probability Distribution Function
Rachel L. Ward, James Wadsley, Alison Sills
The structure of molecular clouds can be characterized with the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density. In particular, the properties of the distributi…
Unbound Star-forming Molecular Clouds
Rachel L. Ward, James Wadsley, Alison Sills
We explore whether observed molecular clouds could include a substantial population of unbound clouds. Using simulations which include only turbulence and gravity, we are able to m…
Connecting the Dots: Analyzing Synthetic Observations of Star-Forming Clumps in Molecular Clouds
Rachel L. Ward, James Wadsley, Alison Sills +1
In this paper, we investigate the extent to which observations of molecular clouds can correctly identify and measure star-forming clumps. We produced a synthetic column density ma…