Feedback in Galaxy Formation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-05-27 v1
Abstract
I review the outstanding problems in galaxy formation theory, and the role of feedback in resolving them. I address the efficiency of star formation, the galactic star formation rate, and the roles of supernovae and supermassive black holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.0283,
title = {Feedback in Galaxy Formation},
author = {Joseph Silk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0283},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 277, Burkina Faso, December 2010, Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the Land of our Ancestors), C. Carignan, F. Combes \& K. Freeman, eds