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Great Balls of Fire: Star Formation in Gas Clouds Accelerated by a Hot Wind

  • Authors: Stephanie Tonnesen, Rory Smith, Bianca Poggianti, Benedetta Vulcani, Nina Akerman, Marco Gullieuszik, Eric Giunchi, Antonino Marasco, Alessandro Ignesti

Stephanie Tonnesen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

A time series of the fiducial run showing 0.8 kpc by 4.8 kpc windows of the last three outputs from Figure 4. The grayscale shows the projected gas density and the points show star particles. The particle age determines the color, as shown in the legends. The particles are plotted by age, such that the youngest particles are plotted on the top layer. The x-axis remains centered at the same position in every projection, but the y-axis moves with the main stellar cloud. The z range of these projections has been chosen to show star particles separating from the main stellar clump as gas is being accelerated as well as stars being formed in the shredded cloud tail.

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