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astro-ph.SR2011★ 81 cited
Rapid Star Formation and Global Gravitational Collapse
Lee Hartmann, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Fabian Heitsch
Most young stars in nearby molecular clouds have estimated ages of 1-2 Myr, suggesting that star formation is rapid. However, small numbers of stars in these regions with inferred…
astro-ph.GA2011★ 182 cited
Gravity or turbulence? II. Evolving column density PDFs in molecular clouds
Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Adriana Gazol +3
It has been recently shown that molecular clouds do not exhibit a unique shape for the column density probability distribution function (Npdf). Instead, clouds without star formati…