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Astrophysics

a scenario in which molecular clouds collapse on many scales at once, with small-scale collapses nested inside larger ones.

In astrophysics, global hierarchical collapse refers to a scenario in which molecular clouds collapse on many scales at once, with small-scale collapses nested inside larger ones. This meaning comes from Vázquez-Semadeni (2019) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]

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Vázquez-Semadeni, E., Palau, A., Ballesteros-Paredes, J., Gómez, G. C., & Zamora-Avilés, M. (2019). Global hierarchical collapse in molecular clouds. Towards a comprehensive scenario. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(3), 3061-3097. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2736

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