Collapse and Outflow: Towards an Integrated Theory of Star Formation

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1997-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702232v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages with 2 ps figures. Invited review to appear in Computational Astrophysics, Proceedings of the 12th Kingston Meeting,

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Observational advances over the last decade reveal that star formation is associated with the simultaneous presence of gravitationally collapsing gas, bipolar outflow, and an accretion disk. Two theoretical views of star formation suppose that either stellar mass is determined from the outset by gravitational instability, or by the outflow which sweeps away the collapsing envelope of initially singular density distributions. Neither picture appears to explain all of the facts. This contribution examines some of the key issues facing star formation theory.

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