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Cloud-Particle Dynamics and Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
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We study the gas in a spiral galaxy with a cloud-dominated “stellar association-perturbed” interstellar medium from the standpoint of a cloud-particle model. Through N-body computational simulations, we follow the time evolution of the system of gas clouds and the corresponding system of young stellar associations forming from the clouds. Basic physical processes are modeled in a three-step cyclic procedure: (1) dynamical propagation of the clouds and young stellar associations, (2) simulation of cloud-cloud collisions, and (3) formation of new associations of protostars that are triggered by the local mechanisms of cloud-cloud collisions and cloud interactions with existing young stellar associations.
- Type
- II. Spiral Structure
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 131 - 132
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- Copyright © Reidel 1983