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Title:
The Neutral ISM in Nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies
Authors:
Garland, C. A.; Pisano, D. J.; Williams, J. P.; Guzmán, R.; Castander, F. J.
Publication:
The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies, Proceedings of the 4th Cologne-Bonn-Zermatt Symposium, Zermatt, Switzerland, 22-26 September 2003. Edited by S.Pfalzner, C. Kramer, C. Staubmeier, and A. Heithausen. Springer proceedings in physics, Vol. 91. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2004, p.147
Publication Date:
00/2004
Origin:
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Bibliographic Code:
2004dimg.conf..147G

Abstract

We observed 20 nearby Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) in HI and CO(J=2-1) with the GBT and JCMT. These ~L^star galaxies are blue, high surface brightness, starbursting, high metallicity galaxies with an underlying older stellar population. They are common at z~1, but rare in the local Universe. It has been proposed that intermediate redshift LCBGs may be the progenitors of local dwarf ellipticals or low luminosity spirals, or that they may be more massive disks forming from the center outward to become L^star galaxies. To discriminate among various possible evolutionary scenarios, we have measured the dynamical masses and gas depletion time scales of this sample of nearby LCBGs. We find that local LCBGs span a wide range of dynamical masses, from 4 x 10^9 to 1 x 10^11 M_solar (measured within R_25). Molecular gas in local LCBGs is depleted quite quickly, in 30 to 200 million years. The molecular plus atomic gas is depleted in 30 million to 10 billion years; however, ~80% of the local LCBGs deplete their gas in less than 5 billion years. As LCBGs are heterogeneous in both dynamical mass and gas depletion time scales, they are not likely to evolve into one homogeneous galaxy class.
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