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Jet-Induced Star Formation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
Abstract
Jets from radio galaxies can have dramatic effects on the medium through which they propagate. We review observational evidence for jet-induced star formation in low (‘FR-I’) and high (‘FR-II’) luminosity radio galaxies, at low and high redshifts respectively. We then discuss numerical simulations which are aimed to explain a jet-induced starburst (‘Minkowski's Object’) in the nearby FR-I type radio galaxy NGC 541. We conclude that jets can induce star formation in moderately dense (10 cm−3), warm (104 K) gas; that this may be more common in the dense environments of forming, active galaxies; and that this may provide a mechanism for ‘positive’ feedback from AGN in the galaxy formation process.
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- Part 4. Recycling
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 217: Recycling Intergalactic and Interslettar Matter , 2004 , pp. 472 - 479
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004
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