Review of "Simulations of the Formation of Stellar Discs in the Galactic Centre via Cloud-Cloud Collisions" (Hobbs & Nayakshin 2009, MNRAS, 394, 191)
| Date/Time: | Friday, 12 Mar 2010 from 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
| Location: | 3 Physics Hall |
| Phone: | 515-294-2298 |
| Channel: | Astronomy |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the observed population of young stars could have originated from a large angle collision of two massive gaseous clouds at R~1pc from Sgr A*.