Journal article
Cosmological Evolution of Supergiant Star-forming Clouds
Abstract
In an exploration of the birthplaces of globular clusters, we present a careful examination of the formation of self-gravitating gas clouds within assembling dark matter haloes in a hierarchical cosmological model. Our high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamical simulations are designed to determine whether or not hypothesized supergiant molecular clouds (SGMCs) form and, if they do, to determine their physical properties and mass spectra. …
Authors
Weil ML; Pudritz RE
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 556, No. 1, pp. 164–176
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Publication Date
July 20, 2001
DOI
10.1086/321538
ISSN
0004-637X