When was star formation at its peak?
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| Our results appear to be inconsistent with a quasi-continuous star formation history. | |
| We find that the SMC was already forming stars ~12 Gyr ago, even if the lack of a clear horizontal branch suggests that in the first few billion years the star formation activity was low. | |
| The star formation rate as well as the recent star formation history in the central region agree well with observational estimates. | |
| Observations show the reverse to be true in high-mass star formation regions. | |
44 Citations | We conclude that star formation seems to have occurred in likely several bursts rather than occurring coevally. |
| Its temperature and level of turbulence are below the values found for massive cores so far, and we suggest that this represents the initial conditions from which high-mass star formation occurs. | |
| Our model predictions qualitatively match some of the puzzling features in the observed star formation history. | |
| This is consistent with studies of field stars and of clusters that show that there was a major burst of star formation at that time. | |
| We suggest that it occurred at an earlier phase in sequential star formation in that region. | |
| This suggests that any secondary star formation occurred in an extended fashion rather than through short bursts. | |
| Our analysis suggests that star formation started throughout the complex around the same time. | |
| These latter trends are a major new constraint on star-formation histories. | |
| In order to measure the intensity of star formation episodes we should distinguish between nearly-instantaneous and continuous star formation regimes. | |
25 Citations | We suggest that the phenomena revealed here support a scenario of hierarchical star formation. |
| The star formation properties, calculated from typical merger star formation histories, demonstrate the impact of different assumptions about the star formation history. |
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