Nearby luminous galaxies serve as templates to gain insight into the building blocks of the most luminous galaxies in the distant universe. In this conference I have shown that the most luminous galaxies in the Local Universe are mergers of evolved gas-rich galaxies that radiate the bulk of their energy in the mid and far-infrared. The most important implication for future studies on the formation of galaxies at early cosmological timescales is that they will appear as luminous sub-millimeter sources.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Building blocks of the most luminous galaxies |
Autor: | Mirabel, I.F. |
Filiación: | CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Service d 'Astrophysique, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France IAFE/CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Palabras clave: | Galaxies: dwarf; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: starburst; Infrared: galaxies |
Año: | 2002 |
Volumen: | 281 |
Número: | 1-2 |
Página de inicio: | 375 |
Página de fin: | 378 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019517131594 |
Título revista: | Astrophysics and Space Science |
Título revista abreviado: | Astrophys. Space Sci. |
ISSN: | 0004640X |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0004640X_v281_n1-2_p375_Mirabel |