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Fig. 6
Critical Mach number as a function of the cloud’s mass for a cloud with mean density 103 cm-3. Smaller clouds continue their star formation activity even for very high Mach numbers, while larger clouds with more than a few 105M⊙ terminate below Mach 10.
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