Building Blocks of the most Luminous Galaxies |
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Authors: | I.F. Mirabel |
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Affiliation: | (1) Service d'Astrophysique, CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France;(2) IAFE/CONICET. cc 67, suc 28, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Abstract: | 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. This revised version was published online in September 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | infrared: galaxies galaxies: nuclei galaxies:starburst galaxies: dwarf |
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