On the Observed Diversity of Star Formation Efficiencies in Giant Molecular Clouds

Kearn Grisdale, Oscar Agertz, Florent Renaud +3

Observations find a median star formation efficiency per free-fall time in Milky Way Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) on the order of ${\epsilon }_{\mathrm{ff}}\sim 1\%$ with dispersions of $\sim0.5…