Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T04:58:09.412Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

An Investigation of Fragmentation in Collapsing Magnetic Gas Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

G. J. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University

Extract

In recent years, a large amount of work has been directed towards understanding the process of star formation. However, despite these efforts, there still remain areas largely unexplored, where theories are only justified by approximate qualitative arguments rather than fully three dimensional calculations.

Type
Contributions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bodenheimer, P., Tohline, J. E., and Black, D. C., Astrophys. J., 242, 209 (1980).Google Scholar
Boss, A. P., and Bodenheimer, P., Astrophys. J., 234, 289 (1979).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dorfi, E., Astron. Astrophys., 114, 151 (1982).Google Scholar
Gingold, R. A., and Monaghan, J. J., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 181, 375 (1977).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Monaghan, J. J., Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust., Vol. 5.Google Scholar
Phillips, G. J., Proc. Astron. Soc. Aust., 4, 371 (1982).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Scott, E. H., and Black, D. C., Astrophys. J., 239, 166 (1980).Google Scholar
Spitzer, L., Diffuse Matter in Space (New York: Interscience), (1968).Google Scholar