Can Magnetic Fields Support Molecular Clouds?

Details Can Magnetic Fields Support Molecular Clouds? Can Magnetic Fields Support Molecular Clouds?

Sep 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003rmxac..18..142w&link_type=abstract

The Eight Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics (Eds. M. Reyes-Ruiz & E. Vázquez-Semadeni) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y As

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Dust, Extinction, Instabilities, Ism: Clouds, Ism: Kinematics And Dynamics, Mhd

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Observations suggest that magnetic fields play a dominant role in the internal dynamics of molecular cloud cores. As much of the magnetic field threading the cores must be lost before they can collapse to form stars, field loss is thought to be an important factor in controlling the rate of star formation.
We present models of the detailed process of magnetic field loss. These have implications for the overall rate of field loss, the origin of the random motions observed within cloud cores and the treatment of ambipolar diffusion in numerical simulations.

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