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We revisit (Larson, 1982)’s empirical law relating the maximum stellar mass and the mass of the natal molecular cloud. The aim of this journey back in-time is to seek a fundamental origin of this law — i.e.: we seek an answer to the question: What is the fundamental physical basis for this law? Some researchers would want to believe that this law is a result of statistical sampling. Herein, by considering...
In an earlier reading (Nyambuya, 2017), we analysed the equation of motion for a particle situated at the cloud surface of a gravitationally bound Molecular Cloud (MC) where a link to Larson (1982)’s Law (relating the cloud mass and the maximum stellar mass) was made. If the said work is to be believed, then, the radiation field of the central and most massive star of an embedded star cluster must...
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