Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990a%26a...235..379l&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 235, no. 1-2, Aug. 1990, p. 379-386.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Gaseous Diffusion, Interstellar Gas, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Gas Density, Mass Transfer, Stellar Cores, Temperature Dependence
Scientific paper
It is proposed that interstellar gas formation is dominated by condensation processes which bring the gas to the highest densities found in protostellar clumps, followed by cooling processes in the formation of cloud complexes and gravitation in the condensation of dense cores inside individual clouds. Interstellar gas cycles through a sequence involving: (1) formation of stars, (2) molecular cloud disruption, (3) cooling and condensation of warm gas, (4) formation of H I clouds by thermal instability, (5) formation of molecular clouds, (6) formation of dense cores, and (7) formation of stars. It is shown that the mass distribution among the various phases of the ISM can be derived knowing only the density-dependent condensation rate.
Chieze Jean Pierre
Lioure Alain
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