A Global Perspective on Star Formation

Details A Global Perspective on Star Formation A Global Perspective on Star Formation

1996-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9611155v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, LaTeX, macros included, 1 embedded figure, to appear in "HST and the High Redshift Universe" (proceedings of the 37th

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We outline a method to infer the global history of star formation in galaxies with input only from absorption-line observations of quasars. The application of the method to existing data leads to the conclusion that most stars formed at relatively low redshifts (z <~ 2). We combine the global rate of star formation with stellar population synthesis models to compute the mean comoving emissivity and mean intensity of background radiation from far-UV to far-IR wavelengths. These predictions are consistent with all the available measurements and observational limits, including recent results from HST and COBE.

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