by Elisabeth Newton | Feb 13, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
In this paper, Dobbs, Burkert & Pringle suggest that most molecular clouds are not gravitationally bound, as is often assumed. They present simulations in which stellar feedback and collisions between clouds play a prominent role.
by Nathan Sanders | Feb 1, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
Supernovae are vitally important in the chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies, but we don’t yet fully understand the physics that produce these explosions. This new work simulates the turbulent instabilities in a star at the brink of core-collapse.
