Fragmentation of massive clumps: constant mass fraction and growing mass inequality of cores

arXiv:2607.16522 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-17 · Read on arXiv

Zu-Jia Lu, Qi-Tian Chen

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-17

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 196× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Observational Selection Effects — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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