X-Rays from Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cxo..prop.2852k&link_type=abstract

Chandra proposal ID #11620107

Computer Science

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Blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs) provide a local analog to the heavy element deficient conditions under which early galaxy formation occurred. All of the low metallicity BCDs observed with Chandra or XMM-Newton show strong X-ray emission. We propose a survey of nearby, low metallicity BCDs which will enable us to determine if the ratio of X-ray luminosity to star formation rate in BCDs is different from that in normal galaxies. Calibrating this relation for conditions similar to early galaxy formation is essential to using X-ray luminosity as a star formation indicator at high redshift.

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