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Star Formation Triggered by Feedback from Massive Stars

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The Labyrinth of Star Formation

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ((ASSSP,volume 36))

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Massive stars significantly affect their surrounding. During their lifetime of a few million years, they emit ionising radiation and drive a fast stellar wind before they finally explode as a supernova. These powerful processes may sweep up the surrounding interstellar matter and trigger new star formation or lead to the dispersal of the ambient medium. Hence massive star feedback may have a positive or a negative effect on the overall star formation efficiency of a molecular cloud. In this contribution I review observational and theoretical work on triggered star formation. Implications on the relative importance of triggered (vs. spontaneous) star formation are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

SW thanks Ant Whitworth for the frequent, wonderful and profound discussions, his patience, deep insight, and an overall great time at Cardiff University.

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    Stefanie K. Walch

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  1. Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

    Dimitris Stamatellos

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Simon Goodwin

  3. Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

    Derek Ward-Thompson

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Walch, S.K. (2014). Star Formation Triggered by Feedback from Massive Stars. In: Stamatellos, D., Goodwin, S., Ward-Thompson, D. (eds) The Labyrinth of Star Formation. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_32

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