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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 9.

The comparison runs, with grayscale and points as in Figure 8. In all cases, the stars formed in the main stellar clump, at the lowest z positions, have a lower initial velocity than the stars formed from the downwind extended material. While the velocities of the particles in the main stellar clump differ across the different simulations, in all runs the stars formed downwind of the main clump tend to be red, indicating similar fast formation velocities.

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