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The Simulation of Molecular Cloud Fragmentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

M. Wolf
M. Wolf*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Charles University Prague 150 00 Praha 5, švédská 8, Czechoslovakia

Abstract

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The hierarchical fragmentation of a molecular cloud is modeled as a random process by the Monte Carlo method. The mass function of fragments for different values of initial magnetic field is derived.

Type
IV- Models of Spiral Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 135
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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