Submillimeter line emission from LMC N159W: a dense, clumpy PDR in a low metallicity environment

2008/02/14 by J. L. Pineda, N. Mizuno, J. Stützki +39 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078769

Accepted for publication to A&A. 14 pages, 7 figures (3 in Color), 3 tables. A version with high resolution figures available at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~jopineda/pega/n159w_paper.pdf

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Abstract

Context. Star formation at earlier cosmological times took place in an interstellar medium with low metallicity. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is ideally suited to study star formation in such an environment.

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