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Feedback in Galaxy Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Denys Wilkinson Building, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218, USA email: silk@astro.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

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I review the outstanding problems in galaxy formation theory, and the role of feedback in resolving them. I address the efficiency of star formation, the galactic star formation rate, and the roles of supernovae and supermassive black holes.

Keywords

galaxyformationactive galactic nucleifeedback
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 273 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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