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R.I. Klein, C.F. McKee, & P. Colella. The Hydrodynamic Interaction of Shock Waves with Interstellar Clouds. I. Nonradiative Shocks in Small Clouds. ApJ, 420, 213 (1994).

M.M. MacLow, C.F. McKee, R.I. Klein, J. Stone, & M. Norman. Shock Interactions with Magnetized Interstellar Clouds. I. Steady Shocks Hitting Nonradiative Clouds. ApJ, 433, 757 (1994).

S.D. Murray, J. Castor, R.I. Klein, & C.F. McKee. Accretion Disk Coronae in High Luminosity Systems. ApJ, 435, 631 (1994)

S.D. Murray, T.D. Woods, J.I. Castor, R.I. Klein, & C.F. McKee. Radiation Hydrodynamic Models of Eclipsing Low Mass X-ray Binaries. ApJL, 454, L133 (1995).

D.T. Woods, R.I. Klein, J.I. Castor, C.F. McKee, & J.B. Bell. X-Ray Heated Coronae and Winds from Accretion Disks: Time-Dependent 2D Hydrodynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement. ApJ, 461, 767 (1996).

J.K. Truelove, R.I. Klein, C.F. McKee, J.H. Holliman II, L.H. Howell, & J.A. Greenough. The Jeans condition: a new constraint on spatial resolution in simulations of self-gravitational hydrodynamics. ApJ, 489, L179 (1997).

J.K. Truelove, R.I. Klein, C.F. McKee, J.H. Holliman II, L.H. Howell, J.A. Greenough, & D.T. Woods. Self-gravitational hydrodynamics with 3D adaptive mesh refinement: Methodology and Applications to Molecular Cloud Collapse and Fragmentation. ApJ, 495, 821 (1998).

R.I. Klein & T. Woods. Bending Mode Instabilities and Fragmentation in Interstellar Cloud Collisions: A Mechanism for Complex Structure. ApJ, 497, 777 (1998).

R.I. Klein. Star Formation with 3-D Adaptive Mesh Refinement: The Collapse and Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds, in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM), ed. H. Riffert (Elsevier Press), 109, 123 (1999).

R.I. Klein, C.F. McKee, & R. Fisher. Gravitational Collapse and the Formation of Binary and Multiple Stars, in Numerical Astrophysics , ed. S.M. Miyama, K. Tomisaka, & T. Hanawa (Dordrecht: Kluwer) (1999).

R. I. Klein, R. T. Fisher, C.F. McKee, & J. K. Truelove. Gravitational Collapse and Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds with Adaptive Mesh Refinement, in Numerical Astrophysics, ed. S.M. Miyama, K. Tomisaka, & T. Hanawa (Dordrecht: Kluwer) (1999).

A. Boss, R.T. Fisher, R.I. Klein, & C.F. McKee. The Jeans Condition and Collapsing Molecular Cloud Cores: Filaments or Binaries? ApJ, 528, 325 (2000).

J.P. Williams, L. Blitz, & C.F. McKee. The Structure and Evolution of Molecular Clouds: From Clumps to Cores to the IMF, in Protostars and Planets IV, ed. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, & S. Russell (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), p. 97 (2000).

P. Bodenheimer, A. Burkert, R. I. Klein, & A. Boss. The Formation of Binaries and Multiple Stars, in Protostars and Planets IV, ed. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, and S. Russell (Tucson: Univesrity of Arizona Press) p. 675 (2000).

R.I. Klein, R.T. Fisher, & C.F. McKee. Fragmentation and Star Formation in Turbulent Cores, in The Formation and Evolution of Binary Stars, ed. R. Mathieu & H. Zinnecker (San Francisco: ASP), (2001).

R.I. Klein, R.T. Fisher, C.F. McKee, Fragmentation and Star Formation in Turbulent Cores, in Proceedings of IAU 200 (2000).

R.I. Klein, R.T. Fisher, M.R. Krumholz, & C.F. McKee. Recent Advances in the Collapse and Fragmentation of Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores;Rev. Mexicana de Astronomia Astrofisica (Seria de Conferencias);15;92 (2003).

M.R. Krumholz, R.T. Fisher, R.I. Klein, & C.F. McKee. Realistic Initial Conditions for Star Formation Simulations, R.Mx.A.C., 15, 138 (2003).

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, & R.I. Klein. Embedding Lagrangian Sink Particles in Eulerian Grids, ApJ, 611, 399 (2004).

R.I. Klein, R.T.Fisher, C.F. McKee & M.R. Krumholz. Recent Advances in the Collapse and Fragmentation of Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores, in Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium, eds. D. Johnstone, F.C. Adams, D.N.C. Lin, D.A. Neufeld & E.C. Ostriker (San Francisco: ASP), p. 227 (2004).

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, & R.I. Klein. Embedding Lagrangian Sink Particles in Eulerian Grids, in Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium, eds. D. Johnstone, F.C. Adams, D.N.C. Lin, D.A. Neufeld & E.C. Ostriker (San Francisco: ASP), p. 401 (2004).

R.I. Klein, R.T. Fisher, & C.F. McKee. Resolution Issues in the Collapse and Fragmentation of Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores, R. Mx. A. C., 22, 3 (2004).

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, & R.I. Klein. How Protostellar Outflows Help Massive Stars Form, ApJ, 618, L33 (2005).

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, & R.I. Klein. Bondi Accretion in the Presence of Vorticity, ApJ, 618, 757 (2005).

R.K. Crockett, P. Colella, R.T. Fisher, R.I. Klein, & C.F. McKee. An Unsplit, Cell-Centered Godunov Method for Ideal MHD, J. Comp. Phys., 203, 422 (2005).

M.R. Krumholz, & C.F. McKee. A General Theory of Turbulence-regulated Star Formation, from Spirals to Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, ApJ, 630, 250 (2005).

M.R. Krumholz, C.F. McKee, & R.I. Klein. Stars Form By Gravitational Collapse, Not Competitive Accretion, Nature, accept. (2005).