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Propagating Star Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Jan Palous
Jan Palous*
Affiliation:
1Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands 2Astronomical Institute Budecska 6, CS-120 23 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia

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We develop the idea that star formation is a propagating process in galaxies. The basic mechanism of propagation is the accumulation of mass in expanding cold shock-waves. The expansion energy can be inserted by massive stars of an OB-association or it may originate from collissions of high velocity clouds with the galactic disk.

Type
IV- Models of Spiral Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 134
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

References

Palous, J.and Tenorio-Tagle, G., 1990 in preparation Google Scholar