Effective Star Formation Rates for Cosmological Applications
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
Effective star formation rates in tabular form are computed which yield a prescription for the star formation activity in model galaxies as a function of ambient density, metallicity, and stellar feedback. The effects of supernova explosions on the thermal balance of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and the presence of a multi-phase ISM are explicitly included. The resulting grid of models can be implemented easily in N-body codes for the computation of star formation processes in merging galaxies and cosmological simulations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9802364,
title = {Effective Star Formation Rates for Cosmological Applications},
author = {Marco Spaans and Marcella Carollo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9802364},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages LaTex, uses aasps, Accepted by ApJ