Gravity-driven Emergence of Multi-fractal Density Structure in the Orion A Integral Shaped Filament

arXiv:2609.24319 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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

Terminology

• Integral Shaped Filament — 6× in this paper
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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• Deriving volume density profiles of filaments from observed surface densities
• Super-Jeans Fragmentation and Supply-Limited Accretion: Environment-Dependent Co-Evolution of Low- and High-Mass Cores

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