Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures, to be published in "Starbursts - From 30 Doradus to Lyman break galaxies", ed. R. de Grijs and R. Gonzalez
Scientific paper
The most extreme starbursts occur in galaxy mergers, and it is now acknowledged that dynamical triggering has a primary importance in star formation. This triggering is due partly to the enhanced velocity dispersion provided by gravitational instabilities, such as density waves and bars, but mainly to the radial gas flows they drive, allowing large amounts of gas to condense towards nuclear regions in a small time scale. Numerical simulations with several gas phases, taking into account the feedback to regulate star formation, have explored the various processes, using recipes like the Schmidt law, moderated by the gas instability criterion. May be the most fundamental parameter in starbursts is the availability of gas: this sheds light on the amount of external gas accretion in galaxy evolution. The detailed mechanisms governing gas infall in the inner parts of galaxy disks are discussed.
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