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Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Laboratories for probing the Primordial Universe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2008
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Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies are the most metal-deficient star-forming galaxies known in the universe, with metallicities ranging from 1/40 to 1/3 that of the Sun. I review how they constitute excellent nearby laboratories for studying big bang nucleosynthesis and star formation and galaxy evolution processes in a nearly primordial environment.
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