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Calculation and Comparison of Star Formation within the Pinwheel Galaxy

JSHS · 2023

Marcus King, Christine Stewart · Governor French Academy, Belleville, IL

Overview

The relationship consistency between nine different methods of calculating star formation on galactic scales was investigated. These methods varied in approach. Five methods were based on emission and four were based on other galactic factors. From various sources, it was assumed that there was a large discrepancy between any methods used due to the large amounts of variation inherent to observational data. Galactic data regarding the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) and a number of star formation rate formulas was gathered from various sources. This data was then used to calculate the star formation rate of the galaxy M101 using the 9 methods. The resulting rates were plotted onto scatter plots and the lack of an observed relationship was noted. The hypothesis had evidence which supported it as a lack of a relationship between any of the points was obvious, and numerically they varied over 10 orders of magnitude. It is likely that this is due to the inherent variability of observational data on galactic scales and large scale intergalactic dust obscurity.

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