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STAR FORMATION RELATIONS IN NEARBY MOLECULAR CLOUDS
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We test some ideas for star formation relations against data on local molecular clouds. On a cloud by cloud basis, the relation between the surface density of star formation rate and surface density of gas divided by a free-fall time, calculated from the mean cloud density, shows no significant correlation. If a crossing time is substituted for the free-fall time, there is even less correlation. Within a cloud, the star formation rate volume and surface densities increase rapidly with the corresponding gas densities, faster than predicted by models using the free-fall time defined from the local density. A model in which the star formation rate depends linearly on the mass of gas above a visual extinction of 8 mag describes the data on these clouds, with very low dispersion. The data on regions of very massive star formation, with improved star formation rates based on free–free emission from ionized gas, also agree with this linear relation.
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- Authors
- Evans, N. J., Heiderman, A., & Vutisalchavakul, N.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2014-02-04
- Volume
- 782
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 114
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2037247549
- Cited by
- 241
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 12.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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