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The formation of molecular clouds

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 21 Oct 2001Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2001 English Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 327, pages 663-668 (issn: 0035-8711, eissn: 1365-2966,

Authors: S. H. Lubow; S. H. Lubow; Ronald J. Allen; J. E. Pringle; J. E. Pringle;

doi: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04777.x , 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0106420

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106420

The formation of molecular clouds

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In a recent paper, Elmegreen (2000) has made a cogent case, from an observational point of view, that the lifetimes of molecular clouds are comparable to their dynamical timescales. If so, this has important implications for the mechanisms by which molecular clouds form. In particular we consider the hypothesis that molecular clouds may form not by {\it in situ} cooling of atomic gas, but rather by the agglomeration of the dense phase of the interstellar medium (ISM), much, if not most, of which is already in molecular form.

6 pages, no figures, accepted on 20 June 2001 for publication in MNRAS

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Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics

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