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Dissecting starburst galaxies with infrared observations

Astrophysics 2015-11-11 v1

Abstract

The infrared regime contains a number of unique diagnostic features for probing the astrophysics of starburst galaxies. After a brief summary of the most important tracers, we focus in detail on the use of emission lines to probe the upper part of the main sequence in a young superstarcluster in the Antennae, and the compact, dusty starburst in the nucleus of the nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp220

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411668,
  title  = {Dissecting starburst galaxies with infrared observations},
  author = {Paul P. van der Werf and Leonie Snijders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411668},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

invited talk, to appear in Starburst - from 30 Doradus to Lyman break galaxies, eds. R. de Grijs and R.M. Gonzalez-Delgado; 6 pages with 4 figures