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Disk Galaxies: The Global Properties of Star Formation and the Chemical Abundance Gradients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Michael A. Dopita  and
Ian R. Evans
Michael A. Dopita
Affiliation:
Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Australia
Ian R. Evans
Affiliation:
Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Australia

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In the relatively gas-rich, pure exponential disk galaxies, available data is accumulating which suggests that the distribution of starformation in the disk either shows no radial variation, or else has a scale-length which is much longer than that of the stars.

Type
II. Large Scale Processes of Star Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 115: Star Forming Regions , 1987 , pp. 621
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987