Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Chao Wang, Ke Wang, Feng-Wei Xu, Patricio Sanhueza, Hauyu Baobab Liu | Summary: Context. Traditionally, supersonic turbulence is considered to be one of the most likely mechanisms to slow down the gravitational collapse in dense clumps, thereby enabling the formation of massive stars. However, several recent studies […]
Continue.. The role of turbulence in high-mass star formation: Subsonic and transonic turbulence are ubiquitously found at early stages