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Blue Compact Dwarf and Dwarf Irregular galaxies are generally believed to be unevolved objects, due to their blue colors, compact appearance and large gas fractions. Many of these objects show an ongoing intense burst of star formation or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Recchi , G. Hensler

We report the discovery of excess K-band radiation from a metal-rich DAV white dwarf star, WD1150-153. Our near infrared spectroscopic observations show that the excess radiation cannot be explained by a (sub)stellar companion, and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mukremin Kilic , Seth Redfield

The expected episodic or intermittent star formation histories (SFHs) of gas rich dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs) are the longstanding puzzles to understand their whole evolutional history. Solving this puzzle, we should grasp what…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Hideyuki Kamaya

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a key ingredient in galaxy formation and evolution as it provides the molecular gas reservoir which fuels star formation and supermassive black hole accretion. Yet the ISM is one of the least studied aspects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 T. R. Greve

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies very often contains a gas component that reaches the temperature of several million degrees, whose physical and chemical properties can be investigated through imaging and spectroscopy in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Emanuele Nardini , Dong-Woo Kim , Silvia Pellegrini

The interstellar medium (ISM) has a multiphase structure characterized by gas, dust and molecules. The gas can be found in different charge states: neutral, low-ionized (warm) and high-ionized (hot). It is possible to probe the multiphase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , F. Verbunt

In two previous papers, we presented simulations of the first galaxies in a representative volume of the Universe. The simulations are unique because we model feedback-regulated galaxy formation, using time-dependent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimo Ricotti , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , J. Michael Shull

Dwarf irregular galaxies are unique laboratories for studying the interaction between stars and the interstellar medium in low mass environments. We present the highest spatial resolution observations to date of the neutral hydrogen content…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amanda Kepley , Eric Wilcots , Deidre Hunter , Tyler Nordgren

The Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey investigates the interplay of star formation activity and the the metal-poor gas and dust of dwarf galaxies using FIR and submillimetre imaging spectroscopic and photometric observations in the 50 to 550mu…

Supernova driven winds are often invoked to remove chemically enriched gas from dwarf galaxies to match their low observed metallicities. In such shallow potential wells, outflows may produce massive amounts of enriched halo gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Sean D. Johnson , Hsiao-Wen Chen , John S. Mulchaey , Joop Schaye , Lorrie A. Straka

Understanding the properties of dwarf galaxies is important not only to put them in their proper cosmological context, but also to understand the formation and evolution of the most common type of galaxies. Dwarf galaxies are divided into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 G. Battaglia , N. Kacharov , M. Rejkuba

Interstellar space is filled with a dilute mixture of charged particles, atoms, molecules and dust grains, called the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding its physical properties and dynamical behavior is of pivotal importance to many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-18 Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover

Dwarf galaxies are found to have lost most of their metals via feedback processes; however, there still lacks consistent assessment on the retention rate of metals in their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Here we investigate the metal content…

We have studied multi-band surface brightness profiles of a representative sample of 34 nearby dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs). Our data include GALEX FUV/NUV, UBV, H\alpha, and Spitzer 3.6 \mum images. These galaxies constitute the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hong-Xin Zhang , Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Yu Gao , Andreas Schruba

Nearby dwarf irregular galaxies are ideal laboratories for studying the interstellar medium (ISM) at low metallicity, which is expected to be common for galaxies at very high redshift being observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chia-Yu Hu , Amiel Sternberg , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

Low-mass or dwarf galaxies (M$_{\ast}<10^{9}$ M${\odot}$) are abundant in the Universe, yet their formation and evolution remain poorly understood. Their enhanced sensitivity to feedback from star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN)…

A detailed analysis on the physical conditions of the Interstellar Medium in the main body of the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy IC 10 is carried out using long-slit spectroscopy. Maps of the excitation, the H$\alpha$ flux,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez

Dwarf Irregular galaxies (dIrrs) are the smallest stellar systems with extended HI discs. The study of the kinematics of such discs is a powerful tool to estimate the total matter distribution at these very small scales. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Giuliano Iorio , Filippo Fraternali , Carlo Nipoti , Enrico Di Teodoro , Justin I. Read , Giuseppina Battaglia

Mapping stars and gas in nearby galaxies is fundamental for understanding their growth and the impact of their environment. This issue is addressed by comparing the stellar "edges" of galaxies $D_{\rm stellar}$, defined as the outermost…

The radial profiles of gas, stars, and far ultraviolet radiation in 20 dwarf Irregular galaxies are converted to stability parameters and scale heights for a test of the importance of two-dimensional (2D) instabilities in promoting star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter