Star Formation

Below is a flowchart indicating the ingredients of Galacticus star formation model. (Galacticus is highly modular - many different ingredients can be included and excluded - this is intended just as a typical example.)

        flowchart LR
   Disk[<a href='https://galacticus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/physics/starFormationRateDisks.html' style='text-decoration: none'>Disk SFR</a>]
   Spheroid[<a href='https://galacticus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/physics/starFormationRateSpheroids.html' style='text-decoration: none'>Spheroid SFR</a>]
   SFR[["SFR: ψ⭑"]]
   Timescale[<a href='https://galacticus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/physics/starFormationTimescale.html' style='text-decoration: none'>Timescale</a>]
   Surface["<a href='https://galacticus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/physics/starFormationRateSurfaceDensityDisks.html' style='text-decoration: none'>SFR surface density: Σ⭑</a>"]
   SFR --> Disk
   SFR --> Spheroid
   Timescale -.-> SFR
   Surface -.-> SFR