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The effects of ionizing radiation on star formation in molecular clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

F. Bertoldi ,
C.F. McKee  and
R.I. Klein
F. Bertoldi
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory
C.F. McKee
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley
R.I. Klein
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, L.L.N.L.

Abstract

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The gravitational stability of molecular cloud clumps before and after the onset of massive star formation is discussed. We suggest that the most massive clumps are magnetically supercritical but gravitationally stabilized by the hydromagnetic turbulence caused by FUV photoionization-regulated low-mass star formation in their interiors. The ionizing radiation of an O star can trigger star formation in initially sub- and supercritical clumps.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 391 - 393
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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