SHOCKS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS

Authors
Citation
Pwjl. Brand, SHOCKS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 13(3), 1996, pp. 268-271
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN journal
13233580
Volume
13
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
268 - 271
Database
ISI
SICI code
1323-3580(1996)13:3<268:SIMC>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A one-day workshop discussed the properties of shocks in star-forming regions. It also reviewed other physical processes in star-forming mol ecular gas, and the progress in numerical modelling of such physics. D iscussion concentrated on the complexity which instabilities in the ga s flow bring to the analysis of shocks. The consensus was that progres s will be made as the spatial/spectral resolution of shock measurement s improves, and as numerical modelling of the nonlinear growth of inst abilities becomes possible, potentially leading to statistical models of shock dynamics.