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Star Cluster Formation in Extreme Starburst Environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Richard de Grijs*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK

Abstract

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The currently available empirical evidence on the star formation processes in the extreme, high-pressure environments induced by galaxy encounters, mostly based on high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging observations, strongly suggests that star cluster formation is an important and perhaps even the dominant mode of star formation in the starburst events associated with galaxy interactions.

Type
JD6: Extragalactic Globular Clusters & Their Host Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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