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Gallart, Carme
Referencia bibliográfica
Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, ISBN 978-3-642-22017-3. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, p. 103
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2012
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Descripción
In the context of the Local Cosmology from Isolated Dwarfs (LCID)
project, we present detailed star formation and chemical enrichment
histories for six isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies. One of the main
goals of the LCID project is to investigate the influence of global
processes like cosmic reionization, or internal mechanisms such as SNe
feedback, on the evolution of dwarf galaxies. We show that all galaxies
in the sample, including those that ended star formation very early on,
such as the dSph and dIrr/dSph types, formed most of their stars after
reionization was complete. This demonstrates that reionization alone was
not able to stop star formation in them, as had been expected. We
explore alternative mechanisms that may have contributed to the early
stop of star formation in these galaxies.