Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993egte.conf..167w&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Research Center, The Evolution of Galaxies and Their Environment p 167 (SEE N93-26706 10-90)
Mathematics
Probability
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B Stars, Luminosity, Massive Stars, Molecular Clouds, O Stars, Planetary Mass, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Star Clusters, Star Formation, Galaxies, Probability Theory, Radio Observation
Scientific paper
Giant molecular clouds (GMC's) are the sites of all OB star formation in the Galaxy. These OB stars typically form in large associations and photoionize the surrounding gas, eventually destroying the clouds from which they were born. CO surveys have revealed the distribution of GMC's in the Galaxy, and radio observations provide data on the distribution of associations. These results are extrapolated to determine Galactic mean distribution functions of each and then combined to determine how GMC's and OB associations are correlated. The resulting probability distribution of luminosity given cloud mass implies that although most of the molecular mass of the Galaxy is in massive star forming complexes, a large number of clouds above which massive star formation is extremely likely and abundant and below which it is almost certainly absent.
McKee Chris
Williams Jonathan
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