The nature of cosmic explosions: recent progress
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New Developments in Spiral Structure Theory
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2010-02-12 14:10
2010-02-12 16:00
2010-02-12 from 14:10 to 16:00 |
| Where | Cody Hall |
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Prof. Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers University)
Over 150 years after their discovery, astronomers still lack a complete theory for the origin of the beautiful spiral patterns in disk galaxies. I will review the various ideas that have been proposed and describe some recent observational data that appear to support a recurrent instability mechanism.
