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Simulations on the Collisional Properties of Gas in Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Yves Revaz
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
Daniel Pfenniger
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory & University of Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

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In this work, we explore a simple method with few free parameters, which describes the global dynamical consequences on disk galaxies of a slow cycling of gas between the interstellar, almost collisionless very cold gas and the warm collisional phases, with a secular transformation of a fraction of warm gas into stars.

Type
Part 2. Origin
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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