Star formation triggered by galaxy collisions

Reinhard Genzel, Dieter Lutz and Linda Tacconi
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Reinhard Genzel: the Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
Dieter Lutz: the Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
Linda Tacconi: the Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6705, 859-862

Abstract: Abstract It is becoming increasingly clear that collisions between galaxies play an important role in galaxy evolution. The ultraluminous infrared galaxies are predominantly powered by enormous star-formation events that are triggered in the last phases of such collisions. These bursts occur just before the galaxies merge to form single elliptical galaxies.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27597

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