Speaker
Ute Lisenfeld
(Universidad Granada)
Description
In galaxy collisions gas and stars can be torn out of the parent galaxies, giving rise to tails and bridges of gas and to intergalactic star forming region of different sizes. These regions are ideal to study the conditions for the onset of star formation in very simple environments which are different from those in spiral galaxies.
I will describe and compare the molecular gas properties and the star formation in some of these systems and show that there is a broad range of SF activity present. I will discuss what we can learn about the formation of molecular gas and the properties and triggers of star formation.
Author
Ute Lisenfeld
(Universidad Granada)