Jeans Instability of Interstellar Gas Clouds in the Background of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles

David Tsiklauri
1998 Astrophysical Journal  
Criterion of the Jeans instability of interstellar gas clouds which are gravitationally coupled with weakly interacting massive particles is revisited. It is established that presence of the dark matter always reduces the Jeans length, and in turn, Jeans mass of the interstellar gas clouds. Astrophysical implications of this effect are discussed.
doi:10.1086/306334 fatcat:cettgkj4iramdegxobxfp2tfjy