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Turbulence injection timescale (or timescale of massive star formation) compared to turbulence dissipation timescale in dwarf galaxies with rotational velocities of 20 km s-1, 40 km s-1, and 80 km s-1. The timescales are shown as a function of star formation surface density. The critical star formation surface density is found to be ~ 10-5M kpc-2 yr-1, with only a weak dependence of the rotational velocity. The size of the star-forming region is assumed to be 0.5 kpc.

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