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Cosmic Star Formation from the Milky Way and its Satellites

Astrophysics 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We use observations and evolutionary models of local objects to interpret a recent determination of the star-formation history of the universe. By fitting the global star-formation rate, the model predicts the ratio of spheroid to disk mass of \sim1, an intergalactic medium (IGM) whose mass is \sim2.3 times the mass in stars, and whose metallicity is \sim0.1 Z_\odot.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807348,
  title  = {Cosmic Star Formation from the Milky Way and its Satellites},
  author = {F. D. A. Hartwick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807348},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Minor revisions. 6 pages, 5 figures, Latex, uses paspconf.sty, Invited contribution to IAU Symposium 190-New Views of the Magellanic Clouds. Eds. Y-H. Chu, N. Suntzeff, J. Hesser and D. Bohlender