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Classic Starburst Papers

The subject of starbursts is very rich in the astronomical literature. So at the beginning of spring term, 1997, the JHU/STScI Starburst Journal Club compiled a list of "classic" starburst papers. We feel these papers have shaped and defined our understanding of the starburst phenomenon. The list is compiled in subcategories below. These are not the latest, or necessarily the definitive statements on the subject but they are defining papers or the beginning of important threads.

Emission line spectra

• Searle, & Sargent 1972, ApJ, 173, 25.
  (following Sargent, & Searle, 1970, ApJL, 150, L33. )
• Baldwin, Phillips, & Terlevich, 1981, PASP, 93, 5

Optical broad band evolution

• Larson, & Tinsley, 1978, ApJ, 219, 46.
  (building on earlier work of Tinsley)
• Searle, Wilkinson, & Bagnuolo 1980, ApJ, 239, 803
• Huchra 1977, ApJ, 217, 928.
  + Huchra 1977, ApJS, 35, 171

Ultraviolet, dust extinction

• Howarth, I.D. 1983, MNRAS, 203, 301.
  (building on Seaton, M.J. 1979, MNRAS, 187, 73p.)
• Witt, A.N., Thronson, H.A., Capuano J.M. 1992, ApJ, 393, 611.

Multi-wavelength dissection

• Weedman, et al. 1981 ApJ 248: 105

Far-IR

• Rieke, et al. 1980 ApJ, 238, 24.
  (updated by Rieke, et al. 1993, ApJ, 412, 99.)

mm wavelength - Molecular gas

• Scoville, Sargent, Sanders, & Soifer 1991, ApJ, 366, L5
• Solomon, Downes, & Radford 1992, ApJ, 387, L55

Important surveys

• Markarian survey:
  • first: Markarian 1967, Astrofizika, 3, 55.
  • last: Markarian Lipovetskii & Stepanian 1981, Astrofizika, 17, 619;
  • summary: Markarian Lipovetskii & Stepanian 1983, Astrofizika, 19, 29.
• IRAS survey, especially the Bright Galaxy Sample
  see Soifer et al. 1987, ApJ, 320, 238 for description and basic facts.

Galaxy Evolution

• Yale conference "The Evolution Of Galaxies And Stellar Populations", edited by Tinsley & Larson (Yale University Observatory, New Haven)
• Butcher & Oemler 1978 ApJ, 219, 18;
  + 1978, ApJ, 226, 559.
• Tyson 1988, AJ, 96,1
• Eggen, Lynden-Bell, & Sandage 1962, ApJ, 136, 748.
• Searle, L., & Zinn, R. 1978, ApJ, 225, 357.

Dwarf galaxies especially blue compact dwarfs

• Gallagher, Hunter, Tutukov 1984, ApJ, 284, 544.
• Salzer, MacAlpine, & Boroson 1989a, ApJs, 70, 447
  + Salzer, MacAlpine, & Boroson 1989b, ApJs, 70, 479.

Dynamical Theory, observations

• Toomre & Toomre 1972, ApJ, 178, 623
• Dekel & Silk 1986, ApJ, 303, 39.
• Kennicutt 1989, ApJ, 344, 685.

Winds

• Matthews & Baker, 1972, ApJ, 174, 101
• Heckman, T.M., Armus, L., & Miley, G.K. 1990, ApJS, 74, 833.

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