Formation of Spiral Structures in Galactic Discs from Reaction-Diffusion Networks

1997/05/19 by A. Freund, Freund, A.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705143

13 pages, 4 Figures in eps fromat

arxiv created 1997/05/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an extension of the Smolin-model of a galactic disc in isolated, flocculent SC-type galaxies. This model supplies the necessary mechanism to suppress spatial inhomogeneities on short distance scales not present in the model proposed by Smolin.

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