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Abundances in dwarf irregular galaxies

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1986
The results of abundance studies of dwarf irregular galaxies and similar objects are reviewed with special attention to variations in the CNO element group. Observations of the forbidden N II and semiforbidden C III lines in the most metal-poor galaxy known, IZw 18, are presented for the first time and CNO abundances are derived via a photoionization ...
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Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

2004
Dwarf irregular galaxies at optical wavelengths are small, faint and appear to be unstructured and irregular in shape. They are typically gas-rich, metal-poor systems, with varying levels of STAR FORMATION occurring in a haphazard manner across the ...
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A constant intrinsic thickness for dwarf irregular galaxies?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2016
Abstract We assess the intrinsic thickness parameter, qo, for a sample of dwarf irregular galaxies and compare to larger, more massive spiral galaxy systems. We use optical photometry to determine b/a (minor-to-major axial ratio), and we use the H i kinematic inclination angle to derive qo.
M. Johnson   +3 more
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Giant Outflows from Irregular Dwarf Galaxies

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2005
High‐resolution long‐slit echelle spectroscopy of the two irregular dwarf galaxies NGC 2366 and NGC 4861 was performed with the 4 m telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory to examine the structure and the kinematics of the ionized gas. Additionally, we use Hα images from the 3.5 m telescope of the Calar Alto Observatory (NGC 2366) and from the ...
Kerstin Weis   +2 more
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Dwarf Irregular Galaxies of the Local Group

2014
Local Group dwarf irregulars (dIrrs) cover an enormous range in star formation properties. Here I discuss these tiny galaxies as probes of star formation at the extremes of low gas densities and low metallicities. We have learned that (1) Star formation is inefficient in dIrrs and yet at very low \(\Sigma_{\rm HI}\) (\(
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Blue Compact Dwarfs: Extreme Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

1987
In Hubble’s classification scheme, dwarf irregular galaxies (dIs) are low luminosity systems (MB≳ -16) which are at the end of the galaxy morphological sequence and which lack both a dominating nucleus and rotational symmetry [1]. We concentrate here on a class of dIs which are so extreme in these properties that they appear almost stellar in ...
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A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang

Nature, 2023
Ivo Labbe   +2 more
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Normal, dust-obscured galaxies in the epoch of reionization

Nature, 2021
Yoshinobu Fudamoto   +2 more
exaly  

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