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What do we really know about Cloud Formation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Bruce G. Elmegreen
Bruce G. Elmegreen*
Affiliation:
IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA [email protected]

Abstract

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Four processes of molecular cloud formation are discussed: formation in swept-up shells, coagulation of smaller clouds, condensation in larger clouds, and compression in a supersonically turbulent medium. Examples and constraints for each process are given.

Type
Chapter 7: How are we to Understand the Small Scale Structure of the ISM?
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 551 - 560
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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