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What can distant galaxies teach us about massive stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Elizabeth R. Stanway
Elizabeth R. Stanway*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK email: e.r.stanway@warwick.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Observations of star-forming galaxies in the distant Universe (z > 2) are starting to confirm the importance of massive stars in shaping galaxy emission and evolution. Inevitably, these distant stellar populations are unresolved, and the limited data available must be interpreted in the context of stellar population synthesis models. With the imminent launch of JWST and the prospect of spectral observations of galaxies within a gigayear of the Big Bang, the uncertainties in modelling of massive stars are becoming increasingly important to our interpretation of the high redshift Universe. In turn, these observations of distant stellar populations will provide ever stronger tests against which to gauge the success of, and flaws in, current massive star models.

Keywords

galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: high-redshiftstars: luminosity functionmass function
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S329: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars , November 2016 , pp. 305 - 312
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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