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Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Laboratories for probing the Primordial Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Trinh X. Thuan
Trinh X. Thuan*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, Astronomy DepartmentP.O. Box 400325, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325, USA email: txt@virginia.edu
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Abstract

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Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies are the most metal-deficient star-forming galaxies known in the universe, with metallicities ranging from 1/40 to 1/3 that of the Sun. I review how they constitute excellent nearby laboratories for studying big bang nucleosynthesis and star formation and galaxy evolution processes in a nearly primordial environment.

Keywords

galaxies: dwarfgalaxies: abundancesgalaxies: ISMgalaxies: star clustersgalaxies: individual (I Zw 18)galaxies: individual (SBS 0335–052)stars: windsstars: outflowsstars: Wolf-Rayet

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