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The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Forming Regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

L Mestel*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Centre University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH, UK

Abstract

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The flux from the galactic magnetic field alters radically the appropriate description of the equilibrium, collapse and fragmentation of the self-gravitating gas clouds that are the locale of star formation.

Type
6. Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Dark Globules and in the Pre-Stellar and Circumstellar Environment
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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