The Initial Conditions for Gravitational Collapse of a Low-MassStar-Forming Core
2012-05-16
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Bellaterra (TBA)
Without accurate knowledge of the initial conditions of gravitational collapsing process of a molecular cloud core, one cannot understand how a low-mass protostar forms.
One of the major limiting factors is that the initial conditions of core collapse are not necessarily revealed by observations in detail. In this context, we performed detailed study of a natal cloud core and its environment using mm and submm single-dish telescopes and interferometers. The core (~3Msun), located in a fi …