Forming Massive Star Clusters
During Galaxy-Galaxy Interactions
Interacting Systems with Young Star Clusters
Antennae Galaxy
;
Selected Star Fields
NGC 3256
More Examples
Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) as Cluster Progenitors
How do Stars Ordinarily Form in GMCs?
Inefficiently
At
Sluggish
Rates set by Ambipolar Diffusion
Not as Bound Clusters (because
e
< < 50%)
How Can the Bombs
(
i.e.,
GMCs)
be Ignited During A Galaxy-Galaxy Interaction?
Cloud-cloud Collisions? (an old-time favorite)
Environmental Over-Pressure (
Jog and Solomon 1992
)
Our Proposed
New Ignition Mechanism
Summary
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