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From Molecular Clouds to the IMF: Spatial and Temporal Effects
Shantanu Basu, Sayantan Auddy
We review star formation in molecular clouds and describe why magnetic fields may be important and how they can influence filamentary structure and the column density probability d…
The Effect of Magnetic Fields and Ambipolar Diffusion on the Column Density Probability Distribution Function in Molecular Clouds
Sayantan Auddy, Shantanu Basu, Takahiro Kudoh
Simulations generally show that non-self-gravitating clouds have a lognormal column density () probability distribution function (PDF), while self-gravitating clouds with active…
Magnetic Ribbons: A Minimum Hypothesis Model for Filaments
Sayantan Auddy, Shantanu Basu, Takahiro Kudoh
We develop a magnetic ribbon model for molecular cloud filaments. These result from turbulent compression in a molecular cloud in which the background magnetic field sets a preferr…
Perspectives on Low-Mass Star Formation
Shantanu Basu
I review some recent work on low-mass star formation, with an emphasis on theory, basic principles, and unresolved questions. Star formation is both a gravitational fragmentation p…