Barometrically Challenged Molecular Clouds

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Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...19112103h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #121.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1403

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Over 8400 molecular regions have been identified within the FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy as closed surfaces within the l-b-V{LSR} data cube. Assuming kinematic distances and a constant conversion factor between CO luminosity and molecular hydrogen mass, we find that molecular regions with mass less than 10(3) M_sun are not in gravitational equilibrium. The required external pressure (P/k) to bound these objects is 2x10(4) cm(-3) -K. The measured frequency of thermal pressure fluctuations within the atomic medium with this amplitude or greater is consistent with the surface density of molecular material relative to HI in the outer Galaxy. While globally, these clouds are not self gravitational, localized regions within the clouds have evolved to form embedded clusters of newborn stars.

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