no code implementations • 26 Jan 2021 • Baptiste Faure, Frédéric Bournaud, Jérémy Fensch, Emanuele Daddi, Manuel Behrendt, Andreas Burkert, Johan Richard
We show that in very gas-rich galaxies star formation occurs in small gas clusters with masses below $10^{7-8}$ $\mathrm{M}_\odot$ that are themselves located inside giant complexes with masses up to $10^8$ and sometimes $10^9$ $\mathrm{M}_\odot$.
Astrophysics of Galaxies