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3.25. Radiative avalanche driven by a circumnuclear starburst torus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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Recently, a novel mechanism for fueling active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been proposed by Umemura et al. (1997a, b). That is a radiative avalanche, in which a rotating gas disk sheds angular momentum due to the radiation drag force exerted by starlight from circumnuclear starbursts, so that the mass accretion onto nuclei is driven. Originally, a thin ring of a starburst region has been assumed for simplicity. However, recent observations have revealed that circumnuclear starburst rings have radial extension of ∼ 10pc up to kpc, and they often consist of compact star clusters of < 10pc Thus, the ratio of the half thickness to curvature radius of the ring can be minimally less than one tenth when all the star clusters are aligned on a plane of an inner gas disk, while the ratio could be larger if the distributions of star clusters are extended due to some velocity dispersions.
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- Part I. Stellar Cluster, Star Formation
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 184: The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies , 1998 , pp. 139 - 140
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1998