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Magnetic Fields and Shocks in Molecular Clouds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
Abstract
We discuss the expected properties of shocks in molecular clouds when the effect of a magnetic field is included. The results suggest that shocks should have magnetic precursors, and may be C-shocks rather than J-shocks, but the observations are not obviously consistent with this prediction. The effect of these shock properties on cloud collisions triggering star formation is discussed.
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- Galactic and Stellar
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , April 1994 , pp. 58 - 60
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1994
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