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Conference summary: triggered star formation in a turbulent ISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Bruce G. Elmegreen
Bruce G. Elmegreen*
Affiliation:
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Hts., NY 10598USA email: bge@us.ibm.com
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Abstract

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While the overall star formation rate in a galaxy appears to depend primarily on the gas mass and density, with the timescale for conversion of gas into stars given by the dynamical time, turbulence and explosions are still important for the process of star formation because they control the birth correlations in space and time. Most star formation appears triggered by some specific process, whether it is a galactic spiral shock, the expansion of a superbubble, the compression of a bright-rimmed globule, or some seemingly random compressive event in a supersonically turbulent flow. These processes give space and time sequences for star birth that are well observed. Many examples were given at this conference. Shocks are the link between large-scale but weak galactic processes and small-scale but strong final collapses. The rate limiting step is on the largest scale, where the dynamical time is slowest. Both gravitational instabilities and pressurized triggering seem to work on the same local dynamical time, making it difficult to tell that star formation is highly triggered when observing only galactic scales.

Keywords

turbulenceinstabilitiesshock wavesstars: formationISM: structure
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S237: Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM , August 2006 , pp. 384 - 389
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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