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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 402, 期 1, 页码 L64-L66出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00802.x
关键词
stars: formation; ISM: clouds; ISM: evolution; ISM: magnetic fields
资金
- NSF [AST 0307642, AST 0606822, AST 0908841]
Crutcher et al. used OH Zeeman observations of four nearby molecular dark clouds to show that the ratio of mass to magnetic flux was smaller in the similar to 0.1 pc cores than in the similar to 1 pc envelopes, in contradiction to the prediction of ambipolar diffusion driven core formation. A crucial assumption was that the magnetic field direction is nearly the same in the envelope and core regions of each cloud. Mouschovias & Tassis have argued that the data are not consistent with this assumption, and presented a new analysis that changes the conclusions of the study. Here, we show that the data are in fact consistent with the nearly uniform field direction assumption; hence, the original study is internally self-consistent and the conclusions are valid under the assumptions that were made. We also show that the Mouschovias & Tassis model of magnetic fields in cloud envelopes is inconsistent with their own analysis of the data. However, the data do not rule out a more complex field configuration that future observations may discern.
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