Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Laboratories for probing the Primordial Universe
Abstract
Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies are the most metal-deficient star-forming galaxies known in the universe, with metallicities ranging from 1/40 to 1/3 that of the Sun. I review how they constitute excellent nearby laboratories for studying big bang nucleosynthesis and star formation and galaxy evolution processes in a nearly primordial environment.
- Publication:
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Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921308025064
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..255..348T
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: dwarf;
- galaxies: abundances;
- galaxies: ISM;
- galaxies: star clusters;
- galaxies: individual (I Zw 18);
- galaxies: individual (SBS 0335–052);
- stars: winds;
- stars: outflows;
- stars: Wolf-Rayet;
- galaxies: individual (SBS 0335-052)