An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The characteristic mass for → cloud fragmentation in a → turbulent medium. While the standard
→ Jeans mass depends simply on the gas mean → density and → temperature, and fragmentation is purely gravitational, turbulent Jeans mass depends strongly also on the → Mach number (Chabrier et al. 2014, arXiv:1409.8466).

See also: → turbulent; → Jeans; → mass.