Star formation in extremely faint dwarf galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 397, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1435-1453

  Roychowdhury, Sambit ^a   Chengalur, Jayaram N ^a   Begum, Ayesha ^b   Karachentsev, Igor D ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: irregular; Galaxies: stellar content; Radio lines: galaxies; Stars: formation; Ultraviolet: galaxies

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; DENSITY OF GASES; EFFICIENCY; METALS; MOLECULES; STARS; SURVEYS;

COLUMN DENSITY; GALAXIES: DWARF; GALAXIES: IRREGULAR; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; METALLICITIES; POWER-LAW; RADIO LINES:GALAXIES; STAR FORMATION RATES; STARS FORMATION; ULTRAVIOLET:GALAXIES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 68149157261     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14931.x     Document Type: Article

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