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Star Formation in Irregular Galaxies
Science, 1989Irregular galaxies can be viewed as laboratories for studying the processes of star formation. This class of galaxy, unlike the more familiar spiral galaxies, forms stars without spiral arms and does so from a chemically less-evolved interstellar medium.
D A, Hunter, J S, Gallagher
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Carbon monoxide in clouds at low metallicity in the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM
Nature, 2013Carbon monoxide (CO) is the primary tracer for interstellar clouds where stars form, but it has never been detected in galaxies in which the oxygen abundance relative to hydrogen is less than 20 per cent of that of the Sun, even though such ‘low ...
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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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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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1983
Our planet Earth revolves around the Sun, 150 million kilometers away. Our Sun is just one of the 100 billions or so stars which swarm across our Galaxy, a vast system with diameter around 100 000 light-years.* Our Galaxy is one of the billion other galaxies which our most powerful telescopes are able to detect in the depths of space, at distances up ...
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Our planet Earth revolves around the Sun, 150 million kilometers away. Our Sun is just one of the 100 billions or so stars which swarm across our Galaxy, a vast system with diameter around 100 000 light-years.* Our Galaxy is one of the billion other galaxies which our most powerful telescopes are able to detect in the depths of space, at distances up ...
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Abundances in dwarf irregular galaxies
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1986The 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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Markaryan 277: A clumpy irregular galaxy
Astrophysics, 1988The results are given of a densitometric and detailed spectrophotometric study of the galaxy Mark. 277. The observational material was obtained with the Zeiss-600 and 6-m reflecting telescope of the Special Astro-physical Observatory. In Mark. 277 there are four condensations with spectra characteristic of giant H II regions. The physical conditions in
N. K. Andreasyan +2 more
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Structure and Evolution of Irregular Galaxies
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1984Proprietes fondamentales: lumiere, masses et cinematique, abondances, populations stellaires. Proprietes de la formation stellaire: taux de formation stellaire, distribution des regions de formation stellaire, les complexes de formation stellaire et le milieu interstellaire, la fonction de masse initiale, le gaz utilisable.
John S. Gallagher, Deidre A. Hunter
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Starbursts in Ring and Irregular Galaxies
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 1991AbstractThis paper presents the current status of a Ph.D. project undertaken to search for extended-scale bursts of star formation (> 1 kpc) in irregular and collisionally produced ring galaxies, principally in the southern half of the sky. Results of recent 8.4 GHz radio continuum observations and UBVRI CCD imaging of some of the program galaxies ...
V. J. McIntyre, W. J. Zealey
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Giant Outflows from Irregular Dwarf Galaxies
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2005High‐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 ...
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Chemical Evolution of Irregular Galaxies
2011In this chapter, we describe the properties of irregular galaxies and the proposed chemical evolution models. Irregular galaxies are generally small and rather simple objects with low metallicity and large gas content, suggesting that they are either young objects or have undergone discontinuous star formation activity (bursts) or a continuous but not ...
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