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The Mass Spectra of Cores in Turbulent Molecular Clouds and Implications for the Initial Mass Function
We investigate the core mass distribution (CMD) resulting from numerical models of turbulent fragmentation of molecular clouds. In particular we study its dependence on the sonic rms Mach number Ms. We analyze simulations with Ms ranging from 1 to 15 to show that, as Ms increases, the number of cores …