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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 385, 期 1, 页码 181-188出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12609.x
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hydrodynamics; instabilities; ISM : clouds; ISM : evolution; ISM : kinematics and dynamics; radio lines : ISM
We present a model in which the supersonic motions observed in molecular clouds are driven by gravitational energy released as large structures fragment into smaller ones. The fragmentation process begins in large molecular clouds, and continues down to fragments of a critical mass defined as the mass at which gravitational confinement may be replaced by pressure confinement. The power laws that describe the scaling of density, mass, and number spectra of the fragments are given in terms of the observed velocity dispersion of the fragments. The results agree with observations over the range from several to about a third of a million solar masses.
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