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UV penetrated clumpy molecular cloud cores
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
Abstract
Recent observations of sub-mm and far-IR atomic fine structure and molecular rotational lines give evidence that due to the clumpiness of the molecular cloud cores the UV radiation from newly formed stars affects a very large fraction of the cloud material. Direct observations of the clumpy structure in M17 SW allow to derive several parameters of the clump distribution, in particular the clump mass spectrum and the volume filling factor. Implications of these results in regard to star formation are shortly discussed.
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- Small Scale Structure
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