Star Formation in some of the Milky Way’s Extreme Environments
Sarah Willis
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
In extragalactic studies many different observables are used to trace the
star formation history averaged over galaxy or kiloparsec scales. In our
Galaxy we can directly count the number of young stars in nearby star
forming complexes to determine the rate of star formation. However,
initial results using this method found star formation rates more than an
order of magnitude higher than those predicted by empirical relations
derived for external galaxies. I will present the analysis of the star
formation process in a number of different Milky Way molecular clouds that
vary in overall star formation activity. I will describe how different
assumptions and variables alter the derived star formation rate for these
massive clouds, and how the star formation process varies in differing
molecular cloud environments.
Date: | Jeudi, le 19 mars 2015 |
Heure: | 11:30 |
Lieu: | Université de Montréal |
| Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, local D-460 |
Contact: | Tony Moffat |
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