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Characterisation of spatial structure in molecular clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Shoba Veeraraghavan  and
Gary A. Fuller
Shoba Veeraraghavan
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A E—mail SHOBA@CFA.HARVARD.EDU
Gary A. Fuller
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A E—mail SHOBA@CFA.HARVARD.EDU

Abstract

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Two topological tools for studying the global structure of molecular clouds, the genus and the contour-crossing statistic, are discussed. Preliminary results for the Taurus molecular cloud complex are presented.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 505 - 507
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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