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Star Clusters and Galactic Chemodynamics: Implosive Formation of Super Star Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Kenji Bekki
Kenji Bekki*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
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2E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We numerically investigate dynamical and chemical properties of star clusters (open and globular clusters, and ‘super star clusters’, SSC) formed in interacting/merging galaxies. The investigation is two-fold: (a) large-scale (100 pc–100 kpc) SPH simulations on density and temperature evolution of gas in interacting/merging galaxies and (b) small-scale simulations on the effects of the high gas pressure of the ISM on the evolution of molecular clouds. We find that the pressure of ISM in merging galaxies can become higher than the internal pressure of GMCs (∼105kB K cm–3), in particular, in the tidal tails or the central regions of mergers. We also find that GMCs can collapse to form SSCs within an order of 107 yr due to the strong compression by the high-pressure ISM in mergers.

Keywords

Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 2: The Fifth Workshop on Galactic Chemodynamics , 2004 , pp. 167 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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