Bibcode
Sánchez Almeida, J.; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Elmegreen, Debra Meloy
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Volume 22, article id. #71
Fecha de publicación:
7
2014
Número de citas
174
Número de citas referidas
159
Descripción
Numerical simulations predict that metal-poor gas accretion from the
cosmic web fuels the formation of disk galaxies. This paper discusses
how cosmic gas accretion controls star formation, and summarizes the
physical properties expected for the cosmic gas accreted by galaxies.
The paper also collects observational evidence for gas accretion
sustaining star formation. It reviews evidence inferred from neutral and
ionized hydrogen, as well as from stars. A number of properties
characterizing large samples of star-forming galaxies can be explained
by metal-poor gas accretion, in particular, the relationship among
stellar mass, metallicity, and star-formation rate (the so-called
fundamental metallicity relationship). They are put forward and
analyzed. Theory predicts gas accretion to be particularly important at
high redshift, so indications based on distant objects are reviewed,
including the global star-formation history of the universe, and the gas
around galaxies as inferred from absorption features in the spectra of
background sources.
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