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Gravitational Fragmentation

Gravitational Fragmentation is a theoretical framework in astrophysics that describes the process by which a gravitationally unstable interstellar cloud breaks into smaller, dense clumps due to local overdensities and thermal instabilities, leading to the formation of multiple stellar systems.

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Self-similar collapse of isothermal spheres and star formation

Frank H. Shu · The Astrophysical Journal · 1977 · 1.7K citations

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Cooling, dynamics and fragmentation of massive gas clouds: clues to the masses and radii of galaxies and clusters

M. J. Rees, Jeremiah P. Ostriker · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1977 · 917 citations · Full text

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Sources of Gravitational Radiation

Patrick J. McCarthy · Physics Bulletin · 1980 · 749 citations

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The Formation and Fragmentation of Disks Around Primordial Protostars

Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover, Rowan J. Smith et al. · Science · 2011 · 387 citations · Full text

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The properties of brown dwarfs and low-mass hydrogen-burning stars formed by disc fragmentation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2008 · 363 citations · Full text

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  1. SI
    Shu‐ichiro Inutsuka

    Nagoya University, Japan

    6 publications · 434 citations

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  2. HB
    H. Beuther

    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

    5 publications · 194 citations

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  3. EI
    Eduard I. Vorobyov

    University of Vienna, Austria

    5 publications · 188 citations

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  4. TH
    Th. Henning

    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany

    4 publications · 300 citations

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  5. SC
    Simon C. O. Glover

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    4 publications · 790 citations

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Institutions

189

  1. Cardiff University

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    28 publications

    2.4K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    13 h-index

    30 publications

    2K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    49 publications

    3.9K citations

  4. University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    779 citations

  5. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    2.4K citations

  6. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    6 publications

    403 citations

  7. Nagoya University

    Nagoya, Japan

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    347 citations

  8. Southern Federal University

    Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    480 citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 43 publications · 4.9K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    36 publications · 3.8K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    21 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

    Repository · 4 publications · 202 citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 3 publications · 125 citations

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