Post-Starburst Galaxies

June 6th, 2008

Here’s a good write-up of some work related to mine that was also presented this week in St. Louis at the AAS meeting.   It involves post-starburst galaxies, whose relationship to post-starburst quasars isn’t entirely clear to me just yet (I’m planning a project that should help answer that question to my own satisfaction next year).   Their study of the most massive systems indicates that the starburst was   quenched very rapidly by nuclear activity from the central black hole — a quasar in its most active form.   My group and I will be reading the journal paper very closely in the near future.

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