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Cosmic Star Formation from the Milky Way and its Satellites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

F.D.A. Hartwick*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3P6

Abstract

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We use observations and evolutionary models of local objects to interpret a recent determination of the star-formation history of the universe. By fitting the global star-formation rate, the model predicts the ratio of spheroid to disk mass of ~1, an intergalactic medium (IGM) whose mass is ~2.3 times the mass in stars, and whose metallicity is ~0.1 Z.

Type
Part 1. Overview and Cosmological Context of the Magellanic Clouds
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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