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Stars form in embedded star clusters which play a key role in determining the properties of a galaxys stellar population. Physical mechanisms discussed in this paper are runaway stars shot out from young clusters, binary-star disruption in clusters, gas blow-out from clusters and the origin of thick galactic disks. I emphasise that the SNIa rate per low-mass star depends on the star-clusters formed in a galaxy and I discuss the IGIMF theory. Based on the IGIMF theory, the re-calibrated Halpha-luminosity--SFR relation implies dwarf irregular galaxies to have the same gas-depletion time-scale as major disk galaxies, suggesting a major change in our understanding of dwarf-galaxy evolution. The IGIMF-theory also naturally leads to the observed radial Halpha cutoff in disk galaxies without a radial star-formation cutoff. It emerges that the thorough understanding of the physics and distribution of star clusters may be leading to a major paradigm shift in our understanding of galaxy evolution.
We develop a simple analytical criterion to investigate the role of the environment on the onset of star formation. We will consider the main external agents that influence the star formation (i.e. ram pressure, tidal interaction, Rayleigh-Taylor and
We have used a sample of 15749 galaxies taken from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey to investigate the effects of environment on the rate of star formation (SFR) in galaxies. The size and homogeneity of this data set allows us to sample, for the firs
In cold dark matter cosmological models, the first stars to form are believed to do so within small protogalaxies. We wish to understand how the evolution of these early protogalaxies changes once the gas forming them has been enriched with small qua
We investigate the influence of ram-pressure stripping on the star formation and the mass distribution in simulated spiral galaxies. Special emphasis is put on the question where the newly formed stars are located. The stripping radius from the simul
Quenched galaxies are often observed to contain a strong bulge component. The key question is whether this reflects a causal connection - can star formation be quenched dynamically by bulges or the spheroids of early-type galaxies? We systematically