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Brown Dwarfs from Turbulent Fragmentation
Paolo Padoan, Alexei Kritsuk, Michael Norman +1
The origin of brown dwarfs (BDs) is an important component of the theory of star formation, because BDs are approximately as numerous as solar mass stars. It has been suggested tha…
Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function
Aake Nordlund, Paolo Padoan
Supersonic turbulence fragments the interstellar medium into dense sheets, filaments, cores and large low density voids. The turbulence is driven on large scales, probably predomin…
Turbulent Fragmentation and the Initial Conditions for Star Formation
Paolo Padoan, AAke Nordlund, Ornolfur Einar Rognvaldsson +1
Super-sonic turbulence fragments molecular clouds (MC) into a very complex density field with density contrasts of several orders of magnitude. A fraction of the gas is locked into…
Primordial Proto-Galaxies
Paolo Padoan, Raul Jimenez, James Dunlop
The first stars to form in protogalaxies must have primordial chemical composition. We refer to a protogalaxy that is forming stars of primordial composition, or very low metallici…
Supersonic Random Flows in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Paolo Padoan, John Bally, Youssef Billawala +2
We compare the statistical properties of J=1-0 13CO spectra observed in the Perseus Molecular Cloud with synthetic J=1-0 13CO spectra from a 5 pc model cloud. The synthetic spectra…
Supersonic motions in dark clouds are not Alfven waves
Paolo Padoan, AAke Nordlund
Supersonic random motions are observed in dark clouds and are traditionally interpreted as Alfvén waves, but the possibility that these motions are super-Alfvenic has not been rule…