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Infrared Luminosities of Markarian Starburst Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

S. P. Willner  and
L. K. Deutsch
S. P. Willner
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
L. K. Deutsch
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

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Optical observations (Balzano 1983) have found many galaxies with unusually blue colors, stellar or semi-stellar nuclei, and emission line spectra with narrow line widths and line ratios implying stellar ionization. Balzano concluded that these properties could be explained by a recent burst of star formation; since almost all of the galaxies were selected from the Markarian lists, they are referred to as “Markarian starburst galaxies.” We have compared the far infrared luminosities of these galaxies with a sample of normal spiral galaxies (Scoville et al. 1983). We have also compared the far infrared luminosities of the Markarian starburst galaxies to their blue light and Hα luminosities.

Type
II. Large Scale Processes of Star Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 115: Star Forming Regions , 1987 , pp. 640 - 641
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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