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The effects of ionizing radiation on star formation in molecular clouds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
Abstract
The gravitational stability of molecular cloud clumps before and after the onset of massive star formation is discussed. We suggest that the most massive clumps are magnetically supercritical but gravitationally stabilized by the hydromagnetic turbulence caused by FUV photoionization-regulated low-mass star formation in their interiors. The ionizing radiation of an O star can trigger star formation in initially sub- and supercritical clumps.
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