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Mergers of massive gas-rich galaxies trigger violent starbursts that — over timescales of > 100 Myr and regions > 10 kpc — form massive and compact star clusters comparable in mass and radii to Galactic globular clusters. The star formation efficiency is higher by 1–2 orders of magnitude in these bursts than in undisturbed spirals, irregulars or even BCDs. We ask the question if star formation in these extreme regimes is just a scaled-up version of the normal star formation mode of if the formation of globular clusters reveals fundamentally different conditions.
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Von Alvensleben, U.F. (2002). Star Formation in Violent and Normal Evolutionary Phases. In: Sauvage, M., Stazińska, G., Schaerer, D. (eds) The Evolution of Galaxies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3311-3_85
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