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Theoretical Calculations of Interstellar Cloud Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Donald W. Goldsmith
Donald W. Goldsmith*
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., U.S.A. 1655 12th Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94122, U.S.A.
*
Present address: 1655 12th Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 94122.

Abstract

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Numerical calculations of the growth of thermal instabilities show that condensations tend to form with the proper sort of density contrast but the wrong shapes (and, to some extent, sizes) to qualify as the observed interstellar clouds analyzed by Heiles.

Type
Part 1: The Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 60: Galactic Radio Astronomy , 1974 , pp. 111 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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