ASTR 553 : Extragalactic Astronomy

Reading Assignments, and other reference material.

Topic 11 : Star Formation and Starburst Galaxies

The treatment of Star formation and Starburst galaxies in our main texts (B&M and S&G) is rather thin (the topic is outside the domain of B&T). In preparing this Topic I've made use of a number of other sources.

Primary References :
Elmergreen's text (Ch 10 & 1st half of Ch 11) covers much of the material
Kennicutt 1998, ARAA 38, 189 : Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence
Kennicutt 1989 ApJ 344, 685 : "Star Formation Law in Galactic Disks"
Sanders & Mirabel 1996, ARAA 34 749 : Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Heckman 2000 Article in EAA : Starbursts

Secondary :
Keel's Graduate Lecture Notes : Two topics : Star Formation; and Starbursts.
Duric 2000 Article in EAA : Star Formation and Radio Emission from Normal Galaxies
Bregman 2000 Article in EAA : M82
the 2001 ASP Conference Series has two nice articles on Superwinds :
one by Heckman, the other by Strickland.

Our texts have some information : B&M : 522-525, S&G : 203-205,219, 222, 228-229.

Additional :
Not yet completed