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Magnetically Controlled Gravitational Instabilities in the Taurus Molecular Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

W.L.H. Shuter
Affiliation:
1 Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 2A6, Canada
R.L. Dickman
Affiliation:
2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

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The periodic structure we [1,2] have previously reported as puzzling in the velocity field and column density of 21 cm self–absorption in the Taurus Complex, can be explained naturally in terms of the gravitational collapse of the HI along the lines of force of the large–scale magnetic field of the region.

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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