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Starburst Feedback in Local, Massive Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Crystal L. Martin
Crystal L. Martin*
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Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: [email protected]
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Major mergers of gas-rich galaxies, each comparable in mass to the Milky Way, are rare at the present epoch. These events were readily identifed, however, two decades ago in far-infrared sky surveys (Soifer et al. 1986, 1987). Removal of the dust enshrouding these starbursts was almost immediately proposed as an evolutionary path to quasar formation (Sanders 1988). Recent measurements of the stellar velocity dispersion, rotation speed, and stellar surface brightness profile of these mergers suggest ULIRGs are indeed progenitors of field elliptical galaxies (Genzel et al. 2001; Tacconi et al. 2002).

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S235: Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time , August 2006 , pp. 280 - 283
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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