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Jet-Induced Star Formation: Good News From Big Bad Black Holes

Wil van Breugel, Chris Fragile, Stephen Croft, Wim de Vries, Peter Anninos, Stephen Murray

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0406668

Abstract

We discuss obbservations and numerical simulations which show that radiative shocks in jet-cloud collisions can trigger the collapse of intergalactic clouds and subsequent star formation in low luminosity, 'FR-I' type, radio galaxies.

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