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SUMMARY:LITTLE THINGS and other things: probing star formation near and fa
 r - Elias Brinks (University of Hertfordshire)
DTSTART:20150224T163000Z
DTEND:20150224T173000Z
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CONTACT:David Titterington
DESCRIPTION:LITTLE THINGS is a Large VLA Project to map in HI some 40 dwar
 f irregular galaxies in the nearby universe.  The HI data are supplemented
  by a wealth of ancillary data ranging from the FUV to the sub-millimetre.
   One of its key scientific drivers is to study the star formation process
  in the low-mass\, low-metallicity regime where star formation is episodic
  and seems to deviate from the relations\, such as the Schmidt-Kennicutt s
 tar formation “law” that has been established in larger\, spiral galax
 ies.  I will report on various projects within the LITTLE THINGS effort\, 
 focussing on the Schmidt-Kennicutt relation in dlrrs\, the effect low meta
 llicity and low dust have on the properties of molecular clouds in these s
 ystems\, and out attempts to use the radio continuum at cm-wavelengths as 
 a star formation rate indicator.\n
LOCATION:Martin Ryle Seminar Room\, Kavli Institute
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