Electronic Resource
Springer
The astronomy and astrophysics review
1 (1989), S. 141-176
ISSN:
1432-0754
Keywords:
molecular clouds
;
star formation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Summary This review consists of five sections. In the introduction, we briefly review the development of the study of molecular clouds. In the second section, we review the theories of molecular cloud structure and compare these predictions with the statistical properties of the clouds. In Sect. 3 we give an overview of current approaches to determinations of mass and local density in clouds. In the fourth part, we discuss the observations of a selected sample of individual sources. The emphasis here is on high resolution studies of regions of star formation. The final section contains a discussion of instrumental limitations and mentions some future developments.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00872714
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