Probing the formation mechanism of prestellar cores and the origin of the imf: first results from the herschel gould belt survey

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Nov 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011eas....52..167a&link_type=abstract

EAS Publications Series, Volume 52, 2011, pp.167-172

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We summarize the first results from the Herschel Gould Belt survey, one of the largest key projects with the Herschel Space Observatory. Our early findings confirm the existence of a close relationship between the prestellar core mass function (CMF) the stellar initial mass function (IMF). Furthermore, they suggest a scenario according to which the formation of prestellar cores occurs in two main steps: 1) complex networks of long, thin filaments form first, probably as a result of interstellar MHD turbulence; 2) the densest filaments then fragment and develop prestellar cores via gravitational instability.

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