Star formation rates on global and cloud scales within the Galactic
  Centre
  The environment within the inner few hundred parsecs of the Milky Way, known
as the "Central Molecular Zone" (CMZ), harbours densities and pressures orders
of magnitude higher than the Galactic Disc; akin to that at the peak of cosmic
star formation (Kruijssen & Longmore 2013). Previous studies have shown that
current theoretical star-formation models under-predict the observed level of
star-formation (SF) in the CMZ by an order of magnitude given the large
reservoir of dense gas it contains. Here we explore potential reasons for this
apparent dearth of star formation activity.
