Abstract
The "Extreme starbursts in the local universe" workshop was held at the
Insituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia in Granada, Spain on 21-25 June
2010. Bearing in mind the advent of a new generation of facilities such
as JWST, Herschel, ALMA, eVLA and eMerlin, the aim of the workshop was
to bring together observers and theorists to review the latest results.
The purpose of the workshop was to address the following issues: what
are the main modes of triggering extreme starbursts in the local
Universe? How efficiently are stars formed in extreme starbursts? What
are the star formation histories of local starburst galaxies? How well
do the theoretical simulations model the observations? What can we learn
about starbursts in the distant Universe through studies of their local
counterparts? How important is the role of extreme starbursts in the
hierarchical assembly of galaxies? How are extreme starbursts related to
the triggering of AGN in the nuclei of galaxies? Overall, 41 talks and 4
posters with their corresponding 10 minutes short talks were presented
during the workshop. In addition, the workshop was designed with
emphasis on discussions, and therefore, there were 6 discussion sessions
of up to one hour during the workshop. Here is presented a summary of
the purposes of the workshop as well as a compilation of the abstracts
corresponding to each of the presentations. The summary and conclusions
of the workshop along with a description of the future prospects by
Sylvain Veilleux can be found in the last section of this document. A
photo of the assistants is included.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2107 |
| Journal | ArXiv e-prints |
| Volume | 1008 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2010 |
Keywords
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics