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astro-ph.GA2016★ 260 cited
A Characteristic Scale for Cold Gas
Michael McCourt, S. Peng Oh, Ryan M. O'Leary +1
We find that clouds of optically-thin, pressure-confined gas are prone to fragmentation as they cool below K. This fragmentation follows the lengthscale $\sim{c}_{\text{…
astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited
Using gas clouds to probe the accretion flow around SgrA*: G2's delayed pericenter passage
Ann-Marie Madigan, Michael McCourt, Ryan O'Leary
We study the dynamical evolution of the putative gas clouds G1 and G2 recently discovered in the Galactic center. Following earlier studies suggesting that these two clouds are par…