Dust and Gas as Seeds for Metal-Poor Star Formation
Abstract
I address the issue of dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation by reviewing what we know about star formation in nearby dwarf galaxies and its relationship to the gas and dust. I (try to) speculate on the extent to which processes in nearby galaxies mimic star formation in the early universe.
- Publication:
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Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.5069
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..255..226H
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: dwarf;
- galaxies: ISM;
- galaxies: evolution;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To be published in "Low Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies," Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 255, eds. L.K. Hunt, S. Madden, &