Outskirts of spiral galaxies
Abstract
I present an overview of the recent star formation activity in the outer disks of spiral galaxies, from the observational standpoint, with emphasis on the gas content, the star formation law, the metallicity and the stellar populations.
- Publication:
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Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts
- Pub Date:
- March 2017
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..321..147B
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: spiral;
- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: abundances