Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1779868 | New Astronomy | 2006 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to argue that: (1) these two relationships can be accommodated by a single functional form of the Schmidt law, (2) this functional form is motivated by the hypothesis that star formation is a critical phenomenon, and that as a corollary, (3) the existence of a sharp cutoff may thus be an emergent property of galaxies, as was argued by Seiden [Seiden, P.E.,1983. ApJ, 266, 555.], as opposed to the classical view that this cutoff is due to an instability criterion.
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Authors
Peter T. Williams,