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A simple, robust method of determining whether molecular clouds are fractal is described. The method is applied to the Taurus Molecular Cloud, which is shown to exhibit a change in the character of the structure on a scale of 0.25-0.5 pc, close to the thermal Jeans length at the gas densities probed by 13 CO. The method is applicable to any data cube of optically thin emission.
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