Extreme Starbursts in the Local Universe
Abstract
The "Extreme starbursts in the local universe" workshop was held at the Insituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Granada, Spain on 21-25 June 2010. Bearing in mind the advent of a new generation of facilities such as JWST, Herschel, ALMA, eVLA and eMerlin, the aim of the workshop was to bring together observers and theorists to review the latest results. The purpose of the workshop was to address the following issues: what are the main modes of triggering extreme starbursts in the local Universe? How efficiently are stars formed in extreme starbursts? What are the star formation histories of local starburst galaxies? How well do the theoretical simulations model the observations? What can we learn about starbursts in the distant Universe through studies of their local counterparts? How important is the role of extreme starbursts in the hierarchical assembly of galaxies? How are extreme starbursts related to the triggering of AGN in the nuclei of galaxies? Overall, 41 talks and 4 posters with their corresponding 10 minutes short talks were presented during the workshop. In addition, the workshop was designed with emphasis on discussions, and therefore, there were 6 discussion sessions of up to one hour during the workshop. Here is presented a summary of the purposes of the workshop as well as a compilation of the abstracts corresponding to each of the presentations. The summary and conclusions of the workshop along with a description of the future prospects by Sylvain Veilleux can be found in the last section of this document. A photo of the assistants is included.
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@article{arxiv.1008.2107,
title = {Extreme Starbursts in the Local Universe},
author = {R. M. Gonzalez Delgado and J. Rodriguez Zaurin and E. Perez and A. Alonso-Herrero and C. Tadhunter and S. Veilleux and T. Heckman and R. Overzier and T. S. Goncalves and A. Alberdi and M. A. Perez Torres and A. Pasquali and A. Monreal-Ibero and T. Diaz-Santos and S. Garcia-Burillo and D. Miralles Caballero and P. Di Matteo and L. Kewley and C. Ramos Almeida and B. Weiner and B. Rothberg and J. C. Tan and S. Jogee and R. Cid Fernandes and M. Rodrigues and R. Delgado-Serrano and H. Spoon and P. Hopkins and D. Rupke and E. Bellocchi and C. Cortijo and J. Piqueras Lopez and G. Canalizo and M. Imanishi and M. Lazarova and M. Villar-Martin and M. Brotherton and V. Wild and M. Swinbank and K. Menendez-Delmestre and F. Hammer and P. Perez-González and J. Turner and J. Fischer and S. F. Sanchez and L. Colina and A. Gardini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2107},
year = {2010}
}
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