Star-formation histories, abundances, and kinematics of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

E Tolstoy, V Hill, M Tosi - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Within the Local Universe galaxies can be studied in great detail star by star, and here we
review the results of quantitative studies in nearby dwarf galaxies. The color-magnitude …

An overview of the dwarf galaxy survey

SC Madden, A Rémy-Ruyer, M Galametz… - Publications of the …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS) program is studying low-metallicity galaxies
using 230 hr of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimetre (submm) photometric and spectroscopic …

The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group

AW McConnachie - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Positional, structural, and dynamical parameters for all dwarf galaxies in and around the
Local Group are presented, and various aspects of our observational understanding of this …

New PARSEC evolutionary tracks of massive stars at low metallicity: testing canonical stellar evolution in nearby star-forming dwarf galaxies

J Tang, A Bressan, P Rosenfield… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We extend the PARSEC library of stellar evolutionary tracks by computing new models of
massive stars, from 14 to 350 M⊙. The input physics is the same used in the PARSEC V1. 1 …

The Local Group on FIRE: dwarf galaxy populations across a suite of hydrodynamic simulations

S Garrison-Kimmel, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a new set of high-resolution hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations
that apply the Feedback In Realistic Environments physics to both Local Group (LG)-like and …

Little things

DA Hunter, D Ficut-Vicas, T Ashley… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present LITTLE THINGS (Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes,
The H i Nearby Galaxy Survey), which is aimed at determining what drives star formation in …

The dynamics of isolated Local Group galaxies

EN Kirby, JS Bullock, M Boylan-Kolchin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We measured velocities of 862 individual red giant stars in seven isolated dwarf galaxies in
the Local Group: NGC 6822, IC 1613, VV 124 (UGC 4879), the Pegasus dwarf irregular …

Revealing the cold dust in low-metallicity environments-I. Photometry analysis of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Herschel

A Rémy-Ruyer, SC Madden, F Galliano, S Hony… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Context. We present new photometric data from our Herschel guaranteed time key
programme, the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS), dedicated to the observation of the gas and …

The nature of starbursts. I. The star formation histories of eighteen nearby starburst dwarf galaxies

KBW McQuinn, ED Skillman, JM Cannon… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We use archival Hubble Space Telescope observations of resolved stellar
populations to derive the star formation histories (SFHs) of 18 nearby starburst dwarf …

The nature of starbursts. II. The duration of starbursts in dwarf galaxies

KBW McQuinn, ED Skillman, JM Cannon… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The starburst phenomenon can shape the evolution of the host galaxy and the surrounding
intergalactic medium. The extent of the evolutionary impact is partly determined by the …