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New Simulations Show Induced Star Formation in Merging Clusters

5/7/2014

 
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MCC member Marcus Bruggen and others have shown how the star formation rate (SFR) in cluster spiral galaxies can be enhanced due to major cluster merger induced shocks of the intra-cluster-medium (Roedigner et al. 2014).  They find that local enhancements in the SFR of about a factor of 4 and global SFR enhancements of a factor of ~1.5, but that these enhancements are limited to a short duration of ~15 Myr following the passage of the shock (typical timescales of cluster mergers are about 1 Gyr). Thus enhanced SFR might be expected to be limited to occurring within galaxies that are a few 100 kpc behind the progressing shock. MCC can test this hypothesis using our extensive Keck galaxy spectra, X-ray & radio observations of the shock, and dynamics analysis.

Reference:
Roediger, E. et al., 2014. Star formation in shocked cluster spirals and their tails. eprint arXiv:1405.1033.

A video by Elke Roediger showing how the projected gas density of a spiral galaxy is affected by a passing intra-cluster-medium shock, common in major cluster mergers. Star formation is more likely in regions with denser gas. See more of Elke's simulation videos at: http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Roediger/research.html#Spiral.

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