Jet-induced star formation: Good news from big, bad black holes

2004/03/01 by Wil van Breugel, Chris Fragile, Stephen Croft +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s1743921304002996

Paper presented at IAU Symp 222 on 'The Interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei'

openalex publication_date 2004/03/01 · arxiv created 2004/06/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We discuss obbservations and numerical simulations which show that radiative shocks in jet-cloud collisions can trigger the collapse of intergalactic clouds and subsequent star formation in low luminosity, ‘FR-I’ type, radio galaxies.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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