Forming isolated brown dwarfs by turbulent fragmentation

We use Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to explore the circumstances under which an isolated very low mass pre-stellar core can be formed by colliding turbulent flows and collapse to form a brown dwarf. Our simulations suggest that the flows need not be very fast, but do need to be very strongly conv...

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Published in:	Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 458; no. 2; pp. 1242 - 1252
Main Authors:	Lomax, O., Whitworth, A. P., Hubber, D. A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Oxford University Press 11-05-2016
Subjects:	Astrophysics Brown dwarf stars Brown dwarfs Collapse Computational fluid dynamics Fluid flow Fluid mechanics Forming Markov analysis Monte Carlo methods Monte Carlo simulation Star & galaxy formation Turbulence Turbulent flow stars: formation hydrodynamics ISM: clouds methods: data analysis brown dwarfs turbulence
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