| 5 | 4 | There is a long standing debate on the relative importance of turbulence vs. magnetic support in SF. Early studies in the 80's and 90's focused on magnetic support -- studying how stars can form out of quiescent, magnetically supported clouds (Nakano, Shu, Mouschovias). This ties into the idea of long lived clouds. More recently, 2000's, people have been looking at how turbulence manifests in star forming environments, and how the SF is effected by it. The ultimate test will be from observations - they need to tell us something about the magnetic field strengths inside of clouds -- which is a hard thing to nail down. |
