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SUBMITTER: Chevance M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7188702 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chevance Mélanie M Kruijssen J M Diederik JMD Vazquez-Semadeni Enrique E Nakamura Fumitaka F Klessen Ralf R Ballesteros-Paredes Javier J Inutsuka Shu-Ichiro SI Adamo Angela A Hennebelle Patrick P
Space science reviews 20200428 4
Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their stellar offspring are the building blocks of galaxies. The physical characteristics of GMCs and their evolution are tightly connected to galaxy evolution. The macroscopic properties of the interstellar medium propagate into the properties of GMCs condensing out of it, with correlations between e.g. the galactic and GMC scale gas pressures, surface densities and volume densities. That way, the galactic environment sets the initial conditions for star format ...[more]