Variations in Stellar Clustering with Environment: Dispersed Star Formation and the Origin of Faint Fuzzies
Variations in Stellar Clustering with Environment: Dispersed Star Formation and the Origin of Faint Fuzzies
The observed increase in star formation efficiency with average cloud density, from several percent in whole giant molecular clouds to ~30% or more in cluster-forming cores, can be understood as the result of hierarchical cloud structure if there is a characteristic density at which individual stars become well defined. Also …