Talk:Bok globule

Barnard 68 is a Bok Globule

3K?

I thought cosmic rays didn't allow clouds to reach 3K. Shouldn't this real ~8K instead?

Magnetic fields can protect objects from cosmic rays allowing some parts of the universe to become heated only by the CMB roughly 3 K. You would expect to find magnetic fields all around a star forming region. Without a citation though, it should be labelled as an estimate and I would just average to 10K. (Seth (talk) 02:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC))

Moving ¶ from H II region

Confirmation of Bok's hypothesis had to wait until 1990, when infrared observations finally penetrated the thick dust of Bok globules to reveal young stellar objects within. It is now thought that a typical Bok globule contains about 10 solar masses of material in a region about a light-year or so across, and that Bok globules most commonly result in the formation of double or multiple star systems. <ref name="Bok globule">

• Yun, J.L.; Clemens, D.P. (1990). "Star formation in small globules – Bart Bok was correct". Astrophysical Journal. 365: 73–76. Bibcode:1990ApJ...365L..73Y. doi:10.1086/185891.
  This ref is already in the article.

• Clemens, D.P.; Yun, J.L.; Heyer, M.H. (1991). "Bok globules and small molecular clouds—Deep IRAS photometry and (C-12)O spectroscopy". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 75: 877–904. Bibcode:1991ApJS...75..877C. doi:10.1086/191552.

• Launhardt, R.; Sargent, A.I.; Henning, T.; Zylka, R.; Zinnecker, H. (2000). "Binary and multiple star formation in Bok globules". In Eds. Reipurth, B.; Zinnecker, H. (ed.). Birth and Evolution of Binary Stars, Poster Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 200 on The Formation of Binary Stars. p. 103. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |booktitle= ignored (|book-title= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)</ref>

Thnidu (talk) 01:51, 4 January 2017 (UTC)