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Propagating Star Formation Induced by Superbubbles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Minas Kafatos
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Richard McCray
Affiliation:
Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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A supernova explosion in the galactic disk creates a hot, low density cavity which persists much longer than typical lifetimes of supernova remnants. McCray and Snow (1979), Bruhweiler et al. (1980), Tomisaka, Habe and Ikeuchi (1980) and Kafatos et al. (1980) pointed out that repeated supernovae from a stellar association will produce an expanding shell of gas (R ≳ 100 pc) and offered extensive evidence for such shells -primarily in the form of H I shells.

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Poster Papers 3
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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