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“CO line broadening by saturation effect in molecular clouds”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Jacques R.D. Lépine
Jacques R.D. Lépine*
Affiliation:
Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

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A new discussion of the evidences for turbulences in molecular clouds, taking into account line broadenning by saturation at large optical depths, shows that the generally accepted power law dependence of turbulent velocity with cloud size must be revised.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 451 - 453
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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