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星系恒星形成的全球触发机制

On the global triggering mechanism of star formation in galaxies

Andres Escala

摘要:

我们研究了星系中恒星形成的大规模触发。我们发现,最大的质量尺度不稳定的旋转,一个很好的定义量在一个旋转系统,并具有明确的动力学意义,强烈相关的恒星形成率在很大范围内的星系。我们发现,这种关系可以解释的稳定性阈值和湍流允许维持系统的平衡量。利用这个关系,我们还导出了观测到的最亮年轻星团的恒星形成率与光度之间的相关性。

英文摘要:

We study the large-scale triggering of star formation in galaxies. We find that the largest mass-scale not stabilized by rotation, a well defined quantity in a rotating system and with clear dynamical meaning, strongly correlates with the star formation rate in a wide range of galaxies. We find that this relation can be explained in terms of the threshold for stability and the amount of turbulence allowed to sustain the system in equilibrium. Using this relation we also derived the observed correlation between the star formation rate and the luminosity of the brightest young stellar cluster.

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