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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 7.

Stellar age versus z height at four times in the simulations, plotting all the stars within 12 kpc of the original position of the gas cloud. The mean stellar age as a function of z position is overplotted as a solid line, the mean position of all stars is plotted as an upward-pointing arrow, and the mean position of all stars younger than 20 Myr is plotted as a downward-pointing arrow. All clumps show some age gradient as a function of height, although this is quite minor in both swind and ldwind.

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