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The PARSEC project is a multiwavelength investigation of the centre of galaxies, star formation and black hole activity, at parsecs resolution.
The talk will focus on nuclear star formation and the feeding processes in galaxies of different activity level. The parsec resolution assembled in this study, from millimetre to ultraviolet, allows us a precise characterisation of the nuclear star formation and its building blocks, the star clusters, and of the network of molecular and dust filaments that enshroud and feed the clusters.
The individual analysis of hundreds of clusters, and of their molecular cloud precursors, allow us to resolve in time the major star formation episodes, from the molecular phase to the pre-cluster phase to the cluster phase. With this information in hand, a more accurate estimate of the rate of star formation in the centre of galaxies is derived.
The talk will focus on nuclear star formation and the feeding processes in galaxies of different activity level. The parsec resolution assembled in this study, from millimetre to ultraviolet, allows us a precise characterisation of the nuclear star formation and its building blocks, the star clusters, and of the network of molecular and dust filaments that enshroud and feed the clusters.
The individual analysis of hundreds of clusters, and of their molecular cloud precursors, allow us to resolve in time the major star formation episodes, from the molecular phase to the pre-cluster phase to the cluster phase. With this information in hand, a more accurate estimate of the rate of star formation in the centre of galaxies is derived.
I will show how this parsec view may challenge our views of star formation at galaxy scales.
Organized by
Enrica Bellocchi
