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Some Implications of the Distribution of Interstellar Molecules
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
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
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- Copyright © Reidel 1973