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Table of contents (61 papers)
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Front Matter
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Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution
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The Initial Mass Function in Starburst Regions: Environmental Dependences?
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About this book
Starbursts are important features of early galaxy evolution. Many of the distant, high-redshift galaxies we are able to detect are in a starbursting phase, often apparently provoked by a violent gravitational interaction with another galaxy. In fact, if we did not know that major starbursts existed, these conference proceedings testify that we would indeed have difficulties explaining the key properties of the Universe! These conference proceedings cover starbursts from the small-scale star-forming regions in nearby galaxies to galaxy-wide events at high redshifts; one of the major themes of the conference proved to be "scalability", i.e., can we scale up the small-scale events to describe the physics on larger scales. The key outcome of this meeting – and these proceedings – is a resounding "yes" to this fundamental, yet profound question. The enhanced synergy facilitated by the collaboration among observers using cutting-edge ground and space-based facilities, theorists and modellers has made these proceedings a true reflection of the state of the art in this very rapidly evolving field.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Starbursts
Book Subtitle: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies
Editors: Richard Grijs, Rosa M. González Delgado
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3539-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3538-8Published: 09 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3539-5Published: 11 May 2006
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 362
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory