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Dust and Gas as Seeds for Metal-Poor Star Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Deidre A. Hunter
Deidre A. Hunter*
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA email: dah@lowell.edu
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Abstract

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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.

Keywords

galaxies: dwarfgalaxies: ISMgalaxies: evolution
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Issue S255: Low-Metallicity Star Formation: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies , June 2008 , pp. 226 - 237
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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