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Turbulent Initial Conditions
We have produced turbulent molecular cloud cores that show excellent agreement with observations as initial conditions for our collapse calculations. The image below shows a Mach 1 cloud core, and a simulated observation of the core in ammonia with 40 arcsecond resolution, assuming the core to be located in Taurus (0.14 kpc away).

Image of Mach 1 Molecular Cloud Core

Binary Formation
A simulation of a molecular cloud core with a turbulent mach number of 3 shows the formation of a binary star.

Image of a Newly Forming Binary

High Mass Star Formation
Our preliminary results on high mass star formation show an accretion disk formed after about one central free-fall time in a 100 solar mass core.

Image of a Massive Protostellar Disk