Publications (pdf)

Submitted:

• Rapid Molecular Cloud and Star Formation: Mechanisms and Movies
  Heitsch, F., Hartmann, L., 2008
• Driving a starburst with a thermal instability
  Slyz, A.D, Devriendt, J.E.G., Bryan, G.L., Heitsch, F., Silk, J., 2005, MNRAS
• Theoretical Expectations for Magnetic Field Measurements in Molecular Cloud Cores
  Heitsch, F., Li, P.S., 2004, ApJ

Refereed:

• Fragmentation of Shocked Flows: Gravity, Turbulence and Cooling
  Heitsch, F., Hartmann, L., Burkert, A., 2008, ApJ accepted
• Fast Dynamos in Weakly Ionized Gases
  Zweibel, E.G., Heitsch, F., 2008, ApJ accepted
• Evolution of Unmagnetized and Magnetized Shear Layers
  Palotti, M., Heitsch, F., Zweibel, E.G., Huang, Y.-M., 2008, ApJ, 678, 234
• Cooling, Gravity and Geometry: Flow-Driven Massive Core Formation
  Heitsch, F., Hartmann, L., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G., Burkert, A., 2008, ApJ, 674, 316
• Magnetized Non-linear Thin Shell Instability: Numerical Studies in 2D
  Heitsch, F., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G., Hartmann, L.W., Burkert, A., 2007, ApJ, 665, 445
• Structure Generation by Irradiation: What can GLIMPSE teach us about the ISM structure?
  Heitsch, F., Whitney, B.A., Indebetouw, R., Meade, M.R., Babler, B.L., Churchwell, E., 2007, ApJ, 656, 227
• Cloud Dispersal in Turbulent Flows
  Heitsch, F., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G., Burkert, A., 2006, MNRAS, 373, 1379
• Thermal Instability in a Weakly Ionized Plasma
  Stiele, H., Lesch, H., Heitsch, F., 2006, MNRAS, 372, 862
• The Birth of Molecular Clouds: Formation of Atomic Precursors in Colliding Flows
  Heitsch, F., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G., Hartmann, L., Burkert, A., 2006, ApJ, 648, 1052
• Formation of Structured Molecular Clouds: A Case Study
  Heitsch, F., Burkert, A., Hartmann, L.W., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G. 2005, ApJL, 633, 113
• Dust heating by the interstellar radiation field in models of turbulent molecular clouds
  Bethell, T., Zweibel, E.G., Heitsch, F., Mathis, J.S., 2004, ApJ, 610, 801
• Canals beyond Mars. Beam Depolarization in Radio Continuum Maps of the warm ISM
  Haverkorn, M., Heitsch, F., 2004, A&A, 421, 1011
• Kelvin-Helmholtz-Instability in a Weakly Ionized Medium
  Watson, C., Zweibel, E.G., Heitsch, F., Churchwell, E., 2004, ApJ, 608, 274
• Turbulent Ambipolar Diffusion: Numerical Studies in 2D
  Heitsch, F., Zweibel, E.G., Slyz, A.D., Devriendt, J.E.G., 2004, ApJ, 603, 165
  
• The Formation of Self-Gravitating Cores in Turbulent Magnetized Clouds
  Li, P.S., Norman, M.L., Mac Low, M.-M., Heitsch, F., 2004, ApJ, 605, 800
• Suppression of Fast Reconnection by Magnetic Shear
  Heitsch, F., Zweibel, E.G, 2003, ApJ, 590, 291
• Fast Reconnection in a Two-Stage Process
  Heitsch, F., Zweibel, E.G, 2003, ApJ, 583, 229
• Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Turbulence
  Zweibel, E.G., Heitsch, F., Fan, Y., 2002, Lecture Notes in Physics, eds: E. Falgarone & T. Passot, Springer Verlag, 101
• On the Structure of Self-Gravitating Molecular Clouds
  Ossenkopf, V., Klessen, R.S.,Heitsch, F., 2001, A&A, 379, 1005
• Magnetic Field Diagnostics Based on Far-Infrared Polarimetry: Tests Using Numerical Simulations
  Heitsch, F., Zweibel, E.G., Mac Low, M.-M., Li, P.S., Norman, M.L., 2001, ApJ, 561, 800
• Gravitational Collapse in Turbulent Molecular Clouds. II. Magnetohydrodynamical Turbulence
  Heitsch, F., Mac Low, M.-M., Klessen, R.S., 2001, ApJ, 547, 280
• The distribution of shock waves in driven supersonic turbulence
  Smith, M.D. Mac Low, M.-M., Heitsch, F., 2001, A&A, 362, 333
• Gravitational Collapse in Turbulent Molecular Clouds. I. Gasdynamical Turbulence
  Klessen, R.S., Heitsch, F., Mac Low, M.-M., 2000, ApJ, 535, 887
• The metal-rich globular clusters of the Milky Way
  Heitsch, F., Richtler, T., 1999, A&A, 347, 455

Ph.D. Thesis:

• Turbulence and Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds
  Heitsch, F. Ph.D. thesis, University of Heidelberg, 2001

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