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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- 2.GALAXY-SCALED STAR FORMATION AND
ISM DYNAMICS - BASIC FACTS
- 2.1.Disk stability and star
formation
- 2.2.The heterogeneous and
turbulent ISM
- 2.3.Star formation in the
turbulent ISM
- 3.DYNAMICS OF GALAXY INTERACTIONS
AND MERGERS
- 3.1.Dynamical Friction
- 3.2.Violent Relaxation
- 3.3.Gas response and tidal
torques
- 4.STAR FORMATION TRIGGERING IN
INTERACTIONS - FROM MERGERS TO STARBURSTS
- 4.1.Main observed facts
- 4.2.Standard theory of
merger-induced starbursts: gas inflows and nuclear starbursts
- 4.3.Limitations of the standard
theory
- 4.4.Star formation in mergers:
effect of the turbulent, cloudy ISM
- 4.5.From triggered turbulence
to dense gas excess and starbursts
- 4.6.Implications for star
formation "laws"
- 4.7.Summary
- 5.STRUCTURE FORMATION IN MERGERS,
SUPER STAR CLUSTERS AND GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
- 6.CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
GALAXY FORMATION
- REFERENCES