Minimum mass for opacity-limited fragmentation in dynamically triggered star formation

Whitworth, Anthony Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5486 and Boyd, D. 2005. Minimum mass for opacity-limited fragmentation in dynamically triggered star formation. Corbelli, E., Palla, F. and Zinnecker, H., eds. The initial mass function 50 years later, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 327. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 347-348. (10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7_65)

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Abstract

We present a new analysis of the minimum mass for star formation, based on opacity-limited fragmentation. Our analysis differs from the standard one, which considers hierarchical fragmentation of a three-dimensional medium, and yields

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	Springer
ISBN:	9781402034060
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59488

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