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What do we really know about Cloud Formation?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
Four processes of molecular cloud formation are discussed: formation in swept-up shells, coagulation of smaller clouds, condensation in larger clouds, and compression in a supersonically turbulent medium. Examples and constraints for each process are given.
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- Chapter 7: How are we to Understand the Small Scale Structure of the ISM?
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 551 - 560
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996