Observed protostellar luminosity function for Cygnus X overlaid with theoretical models
Observed protostellar luminosity function for Cygnus X overlaid with theoretical models
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Observed protostellar luminosity function for Cygnus X overlaid with theoretical models. The blue histograms show the observations. The blue curve represents the isothermal-sphere model, which clearly does not fit the observations. The turbulent-core (orange) and competitive-accretion (green) models both reproduce the general characteristics of the observations.

Credit
Cheng et al. 2022
Image Number
SCI2022_0008