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Highly supersonic molecular flows in wind-clump boundary layers

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The gradual acceleration, through viscous coupling to a wind, of molecular hydrogen in turbulent boundary layers around obstacle clumps is proposed to be responsible for the widths of the emission features with full widths at zero intensity of greater than 100 km s−1.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, England

    M. T. Malone & J. E. Dyson

  2. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, D-85740, Garching, Germany

    T. W. Hartquist

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Malone, M.T., Dyson, J.E. & Hartquist, T.W. Highly supersonic molecular flows in wind-clump boundary layers. Astrophys Space Sci 216, 143–150 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00982484

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