Assessing Self-Absorbed Molecular Lines as Tracers of Gravitational Collapse

arXiv:2509.25399 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2025-09-29 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2025-09-29

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Core — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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