Published January 2008
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Journal Article
Luminous infrared galaxies with the submillimeter array: probing the extremes of star formation
Abstract
Luminous and Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) contain the most intense regions of star formation in the local universe. Because molecular gas is the fuel for current and future star formation, the physical properties and distribution of the warm, dense molecular gas are key components for understanding the processes and timescales controlling star formation in these merger and merger remnant galaxies. We present new results from a legacy project on the Submillimeter Array which is producing high resolution images of a representative sample of galaxies with log L_(FIR) > 11.4 and D < 200 Mpc.
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© 2008 Springer. Received 30 January 2007; Accepted 26 July 2007; Published 11 September 2007.Additional details
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