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arxiv: astro-ph/0411542 · v1 · pith:GLTKA3FFnew · submitted 2004-11-18 · 🌌 astro-ph

What fraction of stars formed in infrared galaxies at high redshift?

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Star formation happens in two types of environment: ultraviolet-bright starbursts (like 30 Doradus and HII galaxies at low redshift and Lyman-break galaxies at high redshift) and infrared-bright dust-enshrouded regions (which may be moderately star-forming like Orion in the Galaxy or extreme like the core of Arp 220). In this work I will estimate how many of the stars in the local Universe formed in each type of environment, using observations of star-forming galaxies at all redshifts at different wavelengths and of the evolution of the field galaxy population.

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