High star formation rates as the origin of turbulence in early and modern disk galaxies

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7316, 2010, Pages 684-686

  Green, Andrew W ^a   Glazebrook, Karl ^a   McGregor, Peter J ^b   Abraham, Roberto G ^c   Poole, Gregory B ^a   Damjanov, Ivana ^c   McCarthy, Patrick J ^d   Colless, Matthew ^e   Sharp, Robert G ^e  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GAS FLOW; GRAVITY FIELD; KINEMATICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; GAS; KINEMATICS; LUMINANCE; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAR FORMATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 77958003541     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09452     Document Type: Article

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