The newest twists in protostellar outflows: triggered star formation
Abstract
Winds and outflows powered by the release of gravitational potential energy of infalling matter have been invoked as the triggering agent for further star-formation on scales from dwarf galaxies to individual, low-mass stars. This brief review will touch upon the circumstances under which outflows can serve as star-formation triggers, from specific observations of present-day, nearby protostellar flows.
- Publication:
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Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM
- Pub Date:
- 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307001421
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..237..177B
- Keywords:
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- circumstellar matter;
- stars: formation;
- stars: winds;
- outflows;
- ISM: jets and outflows