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A hydrodynamical study of fragmenting gas clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Joe Monaghan  and
John Lattanzio
Joe Monaghan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, AUSTRALIA
John Lattanzio
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, AUSTRALIA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, L-413, L.L.N.L., P.O. Box 808, Livermore, Ca., 94550, USA

Abstract

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We present 3-D hydrodynamical calculations of collapsing rotating gas clouds, with molecular cooling. We find that cooling significantly inreases the number of fragments.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 464 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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