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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 700, Issue 2, Pages 1609-1625Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1609
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ISM: clouds; stars: formation
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The nearest young stellar groups are associated with hubs of column density exceeding 10(22) cm(-2), according to recent observations. These hubs radiate multiple filaments of parsec length, having lower column density and fewer stars. Systems with many filaments tend to have parallel filaments with similar spacing. Such hub-filament structure is associated with all of the nine young stellar groups within 300 pc, forming low-mass stars. Similar properties are seen in infrared dark clouds forming more massive stars. In a new model, an initial clump in a uniform medium is compressed into a self-gravitating, modulated layer. The outer layer resembles the modulated equilibrium of Schmid-Burgk with nearly parallel filaments. The filaments converge onto the compressed clump, which collapses to form stars with high efficiency. The initial medium and condensations have densities similar to those in nearby star-forming clouds and clumps. The predicted structures resemble observed hub-filament systems in their size, shape, and column density, and in the appearance of their filaments. These results suggest that HFS associated with young stellar groups may arise from compression of clumpy gas in molecular clouds.
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