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Spiral structure in galaxies: large-scale stochastic self-organization of interstellar matter and young stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. V. Feitzinger
J. V. Feitzinger*
Affiliation:
Ruhr-University, Bochum, BRD

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Galaxies are dissipative systems, and the spatial and time structure of the interstellar medium and young stars is governed by reaction-diffusion equations. The coherent galactic oscillations of star formation self-organized in spiral waves, previously detected by numerical simulations (Seiden, Schulman, Feitzinger, 1982) can be analytically described by the concept of a limit cycle. Analytical work on self-propagating stochastic star formation is also done by Kaufman (1979), Shore (1981, 1982) and Cowie and Rybicki (1982).

Type
PART III: Dynamics and Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 106: The Milky Way Galaxy , 1985 , pp. 559 - 560
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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