Where, Exactly, do Stars Form? (and how can SOFIA help with the answer)

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Where, Exactly, do Stars Form? (and how can SOFIA help with the answer)

On a galactic scale

Where, exactly, do stars form?

ìStar Formationî

Spectral-Line1 Maps of Molecular Clouds Learning More from ìToo Muchî Data

The Spectral Correlation Function

How the SCF Works

Goals of ìSCFî Project

Application of the SCF

Application of the SCF

SCF Distributions

Prelimary Insights from the SCF Rosolowsky, Goodman, Williams & Wilner 1999

Which one of these is not like the others?

Can the SCF describe gas physically?

Q. Can the SCF find Star-Forming Gas? A. Empirically, but thatís not good enough.

Coherent Cores: ìIslands of Calm in a Turbulent Seaî

Types of Line width-Size Relations

Evidence for Coherence

The Latest Evidence for Coherence

Coherent Dense Core

Much molecular cloud material is ìchaffî

The Cause of Coherence?

Connecting "Continuum" & "Spectral-line" Maps

"Continuum" Information

"Continuum" Information

Keep in MindÖ ...Warm Dust DOMINATES at 100 mm

"Continuum" Information

Connecting "continuum" & spectral line maps: Help from SOFIA

Connecting "continuum" & spectral line maps: Help from SOFIA = Resolution

Connecting "continuum" & spectral line maps: Help from SOFIA

Connecting "continuum" & spectral line maps: The Dream

What should you do now?

Author: Alyssa Goodman

Email: agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu

Home Page: cfa-www.harvard.edu/~agoodman

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Presented at SOFIA Star Formation Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, July 13, 1999

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