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I review the basic modes of quiescent star formation and starbursts. Star-formation efficiency is the key to reconciling hierarchical galaxy formation with observed galaxy colours and counts. A unified viewpoint is that all star formation is, at some level, bursty. This is motivated both by local observations and by theory. I describe how self-regulation of star formation provides prescriptions for the star-formation rate and efficiency, and for starburst-driven mass outflows.
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Silk, J. (2005). Global Star-Formation Rates. In: De Grijs, R., González Delgado, R.M. (eds) Starbursts. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 329. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3539-X_35
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