Average profiles of the mass-to-flux ratio (upper panel), and the number density (lower panel) of the cloud in concentric radial shells at a time of 1 t_ff. With the blue points in the upper panel we show the true mass-to-flux ratio, and with the magenta points we show the observed mass-to-flux ratio. The dash-dotted black lines in the upper and lower panels show, respectively, radial profiles of the true mass-to-flux ratio and the density from a 2D axisymmetric supercritical simulation (Tritsis et al. 2023).