The Formation of Molecular Clouds

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2001-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106420v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.327:663,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, no figures, accepted on 20 June 2001 for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04777.x

In a recent paper, Elmegreen (2000) has made a cogent case, from an observational point of view, that the lifetimes of molecular clouds are comparable to their dynamical timescales. If so, this has important implications for the mechanisms by which molecular clouds form. In particular we consider the hypothesis that molecular clouds may form not by {\it in situ} cooling of atomic gas, but rather by the agglomeration of the dense phase of the interstellar medium (ISM), much, if not most, of which is already in molecular form.

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