Evidence for coherent star-forming processes in the discs of spirals

Beckman, J. E.; Cepa, J.; Munoz Tunon, C.
Bibliographical reference

IN: Evolutionary phenomena in galaxies (A90-31743 13-90). Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 100-112.

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1989
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This paper presents examples of star-forming phenomena in the discs of spirals which show symptoms of phase-coherence over kpc scales. Cases are found where, along an arm, the youngest blue stars are coherently displaced from a recent but older generation of redder evolved supergiants; in other cases, the star formation efficiency in arms appears to be responding to a density wave resonance pattern. Cases were also found with axisymmetric outflow in the disc components of circumnuclear starburst zones, which could account for an evolutionary starburst-LINER sequence.