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Gasdynamics and Starbursts in Interacting Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

J. Christopher Mihos
J. Christopher Mihos*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University

Abstract

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The onset of gaseous inflows and central activity in interacting galaxies is driven largely by induced bars in the host galaxies. The stability of galaxies against growing bar modes is a direct function of their structural properties — galaxies with central bulges or low disk surface densities are more stable against central starbursts than are bulgeless or disk-dominated systems. Low surface brightness galaxies prove less prone to bar formation and central starbursts than do normal high surface brightness galaxies. This stability of LSB disks also resolves many of the dynamical pitfalls encountered when attempting to link poststarburst “E+A” galaxies to interactions involving normal high surface brightness galaxy progenitors.

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Starbursts
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 205 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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