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Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in Merging Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

M. Noguchi
M. Noguchi*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of Wales College of Cardiff P. O. Box 913, Cardiff CF1 3TH United Kingdom

Abstract

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Numerical simulations show that repetitive starbursts will occur in a merger of two gas-rich disc galaxies. These bursts are caused by the orbital motion of two dense gaseous cores which have been formed at the centres of the original galaxies during the early phase of the merger. Such repetitive starbursts are able to explain the observational result that merging galaxies show a wide range of star formation activity.

Type
X- Gas and Star Dynamics (Models and Simulations)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 343 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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