Conveners
Global Properties at Low and High Redshifts
- Göran Östlin (Stockholm University)
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Janice Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute)25/08/2016, 14:30Since the discovery of "isolated extragalactic H II regions" by Sargent & Searle in 1970, low mass dwarf galaxies experiencing intense bursts of star formation have periodically become the subject of frenetic research because of their unusual and discordant properties. Today, the study of massive star formation and its impact on the interstellar medium seems to be at a major crossroad,...Go to contribution page
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Stijn Wuyts (University of Bath)25/08/2016, 15:15For many years, far-infrared and optical/near-infrared astronomers focused on largely disjoint samples of high-redshift galaxies. While the far-infrared community primarily studied luminous and dusty starbursting monsters, detailed spectroscopic analyses in the (rest-)optical preferentially targeted less obscured systems. With the increased sensitivity offered by Herschel, PdBI-NOEMA and...Go to contribution page
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Dawn Erb (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)25/08/2016, 16:30Low mass, low metallicity galaxies are the most likely source of the photons that reionized the universe, but the relationships between low metallicity star formation, galactic outflows, and the escape of ionizing radiation at high redshifts are still unclear. Using rest-frame UV and optical spectra of lensed and unlensed low metallicity galaxies at z~2, I will discuss constraints on the...Go to contribution page