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Molecular Clouds. Formation and Disruption
Javier Ballesteros-Paredes
Molecular clouds (MC) are the densest and coldest component of the interstellar gas, and the sites of star formation. They are also turbulent and fractal and their masses and sizes…
The Origin of Molecular Cloud Turbulence and its role on Determining the Star Formation Efficiency
Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Ralf Klessen
We suggest that molecular cloud (MC) turbulence is a consequence of the very process of MC formation by collisions of larger-scale flows in the diffuse atomic gas, which generate t…
Velocity Structure of the ISM as Seen by the Spectral Correlation Function
Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Alyssa A. Goodman
(Abridged) We use the statistical tool known as the ``Spectral Correlation Function" [SCF] to intercompare simulations and observations of the atomic interstellar medium. The simul…