Star Formation in the Galactic Center
Abstract
Research on Galactic Center star formation is making great advances, in particular due to new data from interferometers spatially resolving molecular clouds in this environment. These new results are discussed in the context of established knowledge about the Galactic Center. Particular attention is paid to suppressed star formation in the Galactic Center and how it might result from shallow density gradients in molecular clouds.
- Publication:
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The Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre
- Pub Date:
- January 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921316012205
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1611.07022
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..322...75K
- Keywords:
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- stars: formation;
- ISM: clouds;
- Galaxy: center;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Invited talk, 10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 322, "The Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre", Eds. R. Crocker, S. Longmore &