Exploring the scaling laws of star formation
Despite the well-established global Schmidt-Kennicutt (S-K) law which already serves as an essential prescription for large scale star formation in modeling and simulating galaxy formation and evolution, its local, spatially resolved version remains a frontier and more fundamental research topic. In...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3482714 |