A New Way of Looking at Starburst Dwarf Galaxies
Abstract
Starburst dwarf galaxies are extreme environments in which the rate of star formation has a significant evolutionary effect on both the host galaxy and the interstellar medium. Yet, to date, our knowledge of X-ray emission originating from the diffuse hot gas in starburst dwarf galaxies is based on Chandra observations which were analyzed without a detailed understanding of the star formation activity that heated the gas. We propose to study archival Chandra ACIS-S observations of 6 nearby starburst dwarf galaxies for which we have already reconstructed the star formation histories (SFHs) from HST resolved stellar population data. We will connect the spatially and temporally resolved SFHs with the gas, probing the timescales of X-ray emission, and analyze the spatial structure of the gas.
- Publication:
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Chandra Proposal
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011cxo..prop.4245M