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Transfer of continuum UV radiation inside fragmented clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

P. Boisse
P. Boisse*
Affiliation:
Radioastronomie Millimétrique, E.N.S., 24 Rue Lhomond, F-5231 Paris cedex 05, France

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The penetration of visible and UV continuum radiation is a governing factor for many processes inside interstellar clouds. It determines for instance: 1) the overall chemical equilibrium (formation/destruction of molecules and neutral or ionized species, fractional ionization of the gas which is directly related to the coupling with the magnetic field); 2) the overall energy balance (heating of the dust, heating of the gas through collisions with electrons extracted from grains by the photoelectric effect or with grains; 3) cooling of the gas due to fine structure line emission (OI,CI,CII).

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Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 394 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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