The relative amounts of stars and interstellar matter in the local Milky Way

Details The relative amounts of stars and interstellar matter in the local Milky Way The relative amounts of stars and interstellar matter in the local Milky Way

Nov 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pasp...99.1123j&link_type=abstract

(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Symposium on Cool Stars and the Structure of Galaxies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, July

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Interstellar Matter, Milky Way Galaxy, Solar Neighborhood, Star Formation, Stellar Mass Ejection, Astronomical Models, Galactic Evolution, Stellar Evolution

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The author considers the balance between star formation and mass loss from evolved stars in the region within 1 kpc of the Sun. There is considerably more mass in stars than in the interstellar medium, and more material is being incorporated into new stars than is being returned by evolved stars. In the simplest interpretation of the data, it appears that unless there is some infall of new interstellar gas, the era of substantial star formation out of interstellar gas will be over in a few (perhaps 3) billion years.

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