Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud(Proceedings of Japan-France Seminar on Chemical Evolution of Galaxies with Active Star Formation)

Abstract

The Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) made close encounters some 10^8 years ago on their binary orbits around the Galaxy. The LMC and SMC perturbed each other seriously to enhance their star formation. The present paper applies a cloud model for interstellar gas and numerically estimate the past star formation rate at the galaxy collision

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