Meanings
adjectivegravoturbulent (not comparable)
- not comparableastronomyRelating to turbulence during the gravitational collapse of a star
As opposed to gravoturbulent fragmentation theories, we consider the dense core growth and demonstrate that the power law core mass function emerges independently of the initial distribution of density fluctuations by mass.
2015, Andrei Klishin, Igor Chilingarian, “Explaining the stellar initial mass function with the theory of spatial networks”, in arXiv
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