Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2012 · 65 citations · 31 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysicsStar FormationStellar AstronomyComputational AstrophysicsMolecular CloudsStellar AstrophysicsAtomic Fine StructureChemical Mass BalanceEmission-line DiagnosticsMolecular Absorption LinesPhoton-dominated Region ChemistryPhoton-dominated Region ModelsThermal Balance CouplingTurbulence In Molecular Clouds
Context. Multitransition CO observations of galaxy centers have revealed that significant fractions of the dense circumnuclear gas have high kinetic temperatures, which are hard to explain by pure photon excitation, but may be caused by dissipation of turbulent energy.
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On the variation of the initial mass function
Pavel Kroupa · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 7.5K citations · Full text
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