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Some Implications of the Distribution of Interstellar Molecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Lewis E. Snyder Jr.
Lewis E. Snyder Jr.*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. 22903, U.S.A.

Abstract

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It is suggested that molecular observations of interstellar clouds can be used to determine the stage of cloud evolution. However, before observational data can reliably be used to investigate the evolutionary path leading from a tenuous cloud of gas and interstellar dust to a star cluster, mechanisms of molecular formation, excitation, and destruction must be taken into account. The evidence is growing that interstellar dust grains have an important role in molecular formation and destruction.

Type
Part VII Molecules, Theory and Observations
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 52: Interstellar Dust and Related Topics , 1973 , pp. 351 - 361
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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