Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.1602w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #16.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.766
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies (BCDs) are galaxies that are characterized by their blue optical colors, low luminosities and small sizes. BCDs are found to typically have have low, subsolar, metallicities and proposed to be used as local laboratory to study the star formation in the early univesre. The unprecendented sensitivity of the Spitzer Space Telescope has enabled us for the first time to detect a large sample of these low luminosity systems, proving the presence/absence of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon features. In addition, using the high-resolution spectroscopy, we study the elemental abundances of neon and sulfur in BCDs and compare with the results from optical studies. Finally, we also analyse the FIR/radio correlation in low luminosity galaxies and expand the discussion to the mid-IR.
*The IRS was a collaborative venture between Cornell University and Ball Aerospace Corporation funded by NASA through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ames Research Center.
Charmandaris Vassilios
Houck James R.
IRS Group
Wu Yanling
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