Journal article
Evolving molecular cloud structure and the column density probability distribution function
Abstract
The structure of molecular clouds can be characterized with the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density. In particular, the properties of the distribution can reveal the nature of the turbulence and star formation present inside the molecular cloud. In this paper, we explore how these structural characteristics evolve with time and also how they relate to various cloud properties as measured from a sample of …
Authors
Ward RL; Wadsley J; Sills A
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 445, No. 2, pp. 1575–1583
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
December 1, 2014
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stu1868
ISSN
0035-8711