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Feedback and its role in galaxy formation

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To what extent do small-scale processes, such as star formation and black-hole accretion, affect global galaxy properties such as stellar masses, star formation rates and chemical abundances?

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Fig. 1: Feedback is complex because it stems from a variety of physical processes that operate on all scales, from the interstellar medium to the intergalactic medium.

main image courtesy of Edouard Tollet and inset image courtesy of Thales Gutcke

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Cattaneo, A. Feedback and its role in galaxy formation. Nat Astron 3, 896–897 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0904-y

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