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The star-forming clumps in star-bursting dwarf galaxies provide valuable insights into the understanding of the evolution of dwarf galaxies. In this paper, we focus on five star-bursting dwarf galaxies featuring off-centered clumps in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-28 Mengting Ju , Jun Yin , Lei Hao , Chenxu Liu , Chao-Wei Tsai , Junfeng Wang , Zhengyi Shao , Shuai Feng , Yu Rong

If supermassive black holes in centres of galaxies form by merging of black-hole remnants of massive Population III stars, then there should be a few black holes of mass one or two orders of magnitude smaller than that of the central ones,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James Etherington , Witold Maciejewski

We study the effect of sub-grid physics, galaxy mass, structural parameters and resolution on the fragmentation of gas-rich galaxy discs into massive star forming clumps. The initial conditions are set up with the aid of the ARGO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Valentina Tamburello , Lucio Mayer , Sijing Shen , James Wadsley

Star clusters have hierarchical patterns in space and time, suggesting formation processes in the densest regions of a turbulent interstellar medium. Clusters also have hierarchical substructure when they are young, which makes them all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Galaxies can be classified in two broad sequences which are likely to reflect their formation mechanism. The `main sequence', consisting of spirals, irregulars and all dwarf galaxies, is probably produced by gas settling within dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Mao , H. J. Mo

Observations of high redshift galaxies have revealed a multitude of large clumpy rapidly star-forming galaxies. Their formation scenario and their link to present day spirals is still unknown. In this Letter we perform adaptive mesh…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Oscar Agertz , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore

Giant clumps are a characteristic feature of observed high-redshift disk galaxies. We propose that these kpc-sized clumps have a complex substructure and are the result of many smaller clumps self-organizing themselves into clump clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Manuel Behrendt , Andreas Burkert , Marc Schartmann

Star-forming clumps have been found to significantly influence the star formation of gas-rich $z>1$ galaxies. Using public data from JWST/NIRCam (COSMOS-Web) and ALMA (FMOS-COSMOS), we study a sample of 32 massive ($>10^{10.5}\,\rm…

The empirical model of Lu et al. 2014 is updated with recent data and used to study galaxy star formation and assembly histories. At $z > 2$, the predicted galaxy stellar mass functions are steep, and a significant amount of star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhankui Lu , H. J. Mo , Yu Lu , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg , Frank C. van den Bosch , Xiaohu Yang

We present the results of high spatial resolution HI observations of five intrinsically compact dwarf galaxies which are currently experiencing a strong burst of star formation. The HI maps indicate that these systems have a complex and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. van Zee , E. D. Skillman , J. J. Salzer

We present a new model for the formation of stellar halos in dwarf galaxies. We demonstrate that the stars and star clusters that form naturally in the inner regions of dwarfs are expected to migrate from the gas rich, star forming centre…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-10 Aaron J. Maxwell , James Wadsley , H. M. P. Couchman , Sergey Mashchenko

We present results of numerical simulations of the formation of a massive counterrotating gas disk in a spiral galaxy. Using a hierarchical tree gravity solver combined with a sticky-particle gas dissipation scheme for our simulations, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Aniruddha R. Thakar , Barbara S. Ryden

The central regions of galaxies show the presence of massive black holes and/or dense stellar systems. The question about their modes of formation is still under debate. A likely explanation of the formation of the central dense stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Arca-Sedda , M. Spera

We present a simple theoretical framework for massive galaxies at high redshift, where the main assembly and star formation occurred, and report on the first cosmological simulations that reveal clumpy disks consistent with our analysis.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 Avishai Dekel , Re'em Sari , Daniel Ceverino

We study the properties of giant clumps and their radial gradients in high-$z$ disc galaxies using AMR cosmological simulations. Our sample consists of 770 snapshots in the redshift range $z=4-1$ from 29 galaxies that at $z=2$ span the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 Nir Mandelker , Avishai Dekel , Daniel Ceverino , Dylan Tweed , Christopher E Moody , Joel Primack

Contrary to traditional models of galaxy formation, recent observations suggest that some bulges form within preexisting disk galaxies. Such late-epoch bulge formation within disks seems to be linked to disk gas inflow and central star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheila J. Kannappan , Rolf A. Jansen , Elizabeth J. Barton

We propose a scenario in which massive stars form in a self-gravitating gaseous disc around a supermassive black hole. We find that once the surface density of the disc exceeds a critical value, the disc fragments into dense clumps. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Levin

At high redshift, starburst galaxies present irregular morphologies, with 10-20\%\ of their star formation occurring in giant clumps. These clumpy galaxies are considered to be the progenitors of local disk galaxies. To understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 R. Hinojosa-Goñi , C. Muñoz-Tuñón , J. Méndez-Abreu

The recent identification of one or two sub-parsec disks of young, massive stars orbiting the ~4e6 solar mass black hole Sgr A* has prompted an "in-situ" scenario for star formation in disks of gas formed from a cloud captured from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Wardle , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Collisions and mergers of gas-rich galaxies trigger bursts of star and cluster formation. Of the thousands of clusters typically formed during a major merger, only the most massive and compact survive for Gigayears as globular clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Schweizer