Fragmentation during Cloud Collapse
During 1st (isothermal) collapse
MJ ? Msol
RJ ? 100 - 1000 A.U.
difficult in spherical, centrally
condensed cores, but:
prolate cores with gaussian, or uniform, ? profiles fragment !
simulations:
Bonnell, Boss, Burkert, Bodenheimer, Nelson, Monaghan, Klein, Sigalotti
Phases of cloud collapse
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