 Radiation budget of monatomic cloud collapse

For a hydrostatic monatomic ideal gas with negligible external pressure, $2U+{\Omega }_f=0$, where gravitational potential energy is negative. The final total energy is therefore ${\Omega }_f/2$, giving the displayed radiated energy when no mass or other energy carrier escapes. The common $-{\Omega }_f/2$ result additionally takes the initial total energy to be negligible. Initial rest does not remove initial self-gravitational binding energy.