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The expansion of an HII region into a surrounding inhomogeneous molecular cloud, leads to the formation of elongated “elephant trunk” structures. The EUV photo-ionising radiation and FUV dissociating radiation from newly born stars photo-evaporate their parental neutral cloud, leading to the formation of dense clumps in the tips of elephant trunks, that could in principle eventually form stars. We study th effects of including a photo-dissociating FUV flux in models of fragmentation of a photo-evaporating, self-gravitating molecular cloud.
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Lora, V., Vasconcelos, M.J., Raga, A.C., Cerqueira, A.H., Esquivel, A. (2014). The Photoevaporation of a Neutral Structure by an EUV+FUV Radiation Field. In: Stamatellos, D., Goodwin, S., Ward-Thompson, D. (eds) The Labyrinth of Star Formation. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_39
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