Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996ap.....39..375c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics, Volume 39, Issue 4, pp.375-396
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The subject of the review is the nature of regions of large-scale starbursts in galaxies. Theoretical investigations are presented and discussed, for the most part. Principal attention is devoted to the gas-dynamic approach to the problem. The review has the following plan. First we give a brief summary of empirical data on superassociations as regions of collective star formation on the largest scale in disk and irregular galaxies (Sec. 2); we then describe one possible gas-dynamic scenario for the origin of these objects (Sec. 3); the key physical mechanism on which the scenario is based — a collision of shock waves — is studied on the basis of general considerations (Sec. 4), as well as using computer simulation (Sec. 5) and laboratory experiments with shock waves (Sec. 6); the possibilities for the occurrence of this process under the specific conditions of the interstellar medium in disk and irregular galaxies are discussed in Sec. 7; in Sec. 8 we then consider features of large-scale collective star formation in barred galaxies; the evolution of spiral shocks that can initiate this process is the subject of Sec. 9; possible means of generation of large-scale regions of star formation like superassociations at the center of a bar (Sec. 10) and near its ends (Sec. 11) are then described; a brief conclusion is given in Sec. 12.
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