Formation of high mass stars.
Abstract
The author briefly reviews the evidence regarding the evolution of the dense interstellar medium into massive stars. Studies of star formation on large scales based on low angular resolution observations tend to lead to ambiguous conclusions regarding such questions as the cloud density dependence of the star formation rate. Observations of individual clouds and cloud cores show evidence of massive clumps that may become stars, disks around young massive stars, progressive star formation, and infall onto the cores that may be left over from the early stages of star formation.
- Publication:
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The Evolution of the Interstellar Medium
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990ASPC...12..291W
- Keywords:
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- B Stars;
- Interstellar Matter;
- Massive Stars;
- Molecular Clouds;
- O Stars;
- Star Formation;
- Density Wave Model;
- Star Formation Rate;
- Stellar Cores;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Stellar Mass;
- Astrophysics;
- Molecular Clouds: OB Stars;
- Massive Stars: Star Formation;
- Spiral Galaxies: Star Formation