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Feedback, Disk Self‐Regulation, and Galaxy Formation
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Self-regulation of star formation in disks is controlled by two dimensionless parameters: the Toomre parameter for gravitational instability and the porosity of the interstellar medium to supernova remnant-heated gas. An interplay between these leads to expressions for the gas velocity dispersion, gas fraction, star formation rate and star formation efficiency in disks and to a possible explanation of the Tully-Fisher relation. I further develop feedback arguments that arise from the impact of massive star formation and death on protogalaxies in order to account for the characteristic luminosity of a galaxy and for early winds from forming spheroids.
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“The second approach, which we could call a top-down picture, assumes that star formation is largely controlled by global dynamical phenomena, such as disk instabilities (e.g., Silk 1997), and the dynamical timescales in the parent galaxy.”
BackgroundTHE STAR FORMATION EFFICIENCY IN NEARBY GALAXIES: MEASURING WHERE GAS FORMS STARS EFFECTIVELY
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Metadata
- Authors
- Silk, J.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 481
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 703-709
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2047425557
- Cited by
- 314
- References
- 24
- FWCI
- 11.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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