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STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF IRREGULAR GALAXIES
John S. Gallagher, III1,2
Department of
Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Deidre A. Hunter
Kitt Peak National Observatory
3,
Tucson, Arizona 85726
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- BASIC PROPERTIES
- Light
- Masses and Kinematics
- Abundances
- Stellar Populations
- STAR FORMATION PROPERTIES
- Current Global Star Formation Rates
- Distributions of Star-Forming Regions
- Star_forming Complexes and the Interstellar
Medium
- The Initial Mass Function
- Usable Gas
- STAR-FORMING HISTORIES
- Constant Star Formation Rates
- Bursts of Star Formation
- SSPSF: A Possible Model
- EVOLUTIONARY STATUS
- REFERENCES
1 Supported in part by the National Science
Foundation through grant AST 82-14127.
2 Now at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
3 Operated by Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy, Inc. under contract from the National Science
Foundation.
