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Practice problem

Jeans Collapse

By Michael W Busch

A typical dense core of an interstellar gas & dust cloud might have a density of 100 hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter and a temperature of ~15 K. Roughly how massive must such a cloud be in order to become unstable to gravitational collapse and begin to form stars?

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