Forming stars on a viscous timescale: the key to exponential stellar profiles in disk galaxies?

We argue for implementing star formation on a viscous timescale in hydrodynamical simulations of disk galaxy formation and evolution. Modelling two-dimensional isolated disk galaxies with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) hydrocode, we verify the analytic claim of various authors that if the character...

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Hlavní autoři: Slyz, A, Devriendt, J, Silk, J, Burkert, A
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2001