Comments on: Get Off My Lawn https://briankoberlein.com/2016/08/07/get-off-lawn/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2016/08/07/get-off-lawn/#comment-4384 Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:09:48 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6173#comment-4384 I’ve seen it claimed elsewhere that magnetic fields are a factor in star formation. Supposedly, magnetic fields affect the turbulence that leads to star formation. So, maybe we are talking about a region of the galaxy where the magnetic flux is less than elsewhere. Don’t know if the paper considered that, as I could only read the abstract.

]]> By: Jean Tate https://briankoberlein.com/2016/08/07/get-off-lawn/#comment-4383 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 19:40:06 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6173#comment-4383 Interesting result!

But the MW is not unusual, among spirals, in this regard, is it? I mean, rather a lot of spirals do seem to have active star-formation in/near the nucleus, and out in the arms, with not much in between. Particularly if they’re barred spirals, which the MW is. Indeed, one of your blogs – “Raising the Bar” – has an image nicely illustrating this!

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