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Massive star formation in Luminous Infrared Galaxies

A. Alonso-Herrero, G. H. Rieke, M. J. Rieke, N. Z. Scoville

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0211485

Abstract

We present HST/NICMOS observations of a sample of LIRGs. We show that active star formation appears to be occurring not only in the bright nuclei of these galaxies, but also in luminous super-star clusters and giant HII regions with ages of up to 20-40Myr. This population of bright clusters and HII regions is unprecedented in normal galaxies and emphasizes the effects of the extreme star formation in LIRGs.

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