The locations of newly formed stars in molecular clouds |
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| Authors: | Charles J Lada |
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| Institution: | (1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., USA |
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| Abstract: | Observations of very massive stars (M 10M
 ) are suggestive of a star formation process which requires an external trigger. However, observations pertaining to the formation of stars of lower mass (M 9M
) require no such triggering mechanism and are consistent with the idea that such stars form as a natural consequence of the evolution, gravitational collapse and fragmentation of a proto-stellar molecular cloud.Paper presented at the Conference on Protostars and Planets, held at the Planetary Science Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, between January 3 and 7, 1978. |
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