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Although low-mass metal-poor galaxies in the local universe have often been proposed as the ‘primordial building blocks’ in the hierarchical scenario of structure formation, several lines of evidence suggest that this may not be true. Moreover, it is not clear to what extent dwarf galaxies, because they are metal poor and because of their kinematics and structure, can tell us about how star formation proceeded in the early universe. This volume provides an overview and the most recent advances in this debate. IAU Symposium 255 presents the most up-to-date developments in six key areas, including: Population III and metal-free star formation; metal-enrichment, chemical evolution and feedback; explosive events in low-metallicity environments; dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation; metal-poor initial mass functions, stellar evolution and star-formation histories; and low-metallicity star formation in the local universe. This overview is at a level suitable for research astronomers and graduate students. • Covers the many aspects of star formation in a low-metallicity context, including the interstellar medium, stellar properties and evolution, and chemical enrichment and feedback
• Presents the most recent observations with the newest theoretical advances on metal-poor galaxies
• Juxtaposes nearby-universe research with that at high redshift
Contributors
S. C. O. Glover, P. C. Clark, T. H. Greif, Jarrett L. Johnson, Volker Bromm, R. S. Klessen, A. Stacy, Naoki Yoshida, Jonathan C. Tan, D. R. G. Schleicher, A.-K. Jappsen, Kazuyuki Omukai, Katherine Freese, Douglas Spolyar, Anthony Aguirre, Peter Bodenheimer, Paolo Gondolo, J. A. Sellwood, F. Iocco, A. Bressan, E. Ripamonti, Raffaela Schneider, Andrea Ferrara, P. Marigo, Daniel Schaerer, Sperello di Serego Alighieri, Jaron Kurk, Benedetta Ciardi, Andrea Cimatti, Emanuele Daddi, Tohru Nagao, Henry Lee, Eric F. Bell, Rachel S. Somerville, F. Mannucci, R. Maiolino, Britton D. Smith, Matthew J. Turk, Steinn Sigurdsson, Brian W. O’Shea, Michael L. Norman, Daniel Whalen, Bob Van Veelen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck, Francesca Matteucci, Massimo Ricotti, A. Schurer, F. Calura, L. Silva, A. Pipino, G. L. Granato, Andrea Marcolini, Annibale D’Ercole, Elena Sabbi, Linda J. Smith, Lynn R. Carlson, Antonella Nota, Monica Tosi, Michele Cignoni, Jay S. Gallagher III, Marco Sirianni, Margaret Meixner, Emily M. Levesque, Lisa J. Kewley, Kirsten Larson, Leonie Snijders, Uli Klein, Roger A. Chevalier, Ken’ichi Nomoto, Masaomi Tanaka, Yasuomi Kamiya, Nozomu Tominaga, Keiichi Maeda, Hideyuki Umeda, Nobuyuki Iwamoto, Sylvia Ekström, Georges Meynet, Raphael Hirschi, André Maeder, Cyril Georgy,Sandra Savaglio, R. Salvaterra, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, T. R. Choudhury, S. Covino, S. Gallerani, C. Guidorzi, G. Tagliaferri, Francesco Calura, Deidre A. Hunter, Marco Spaans, Frédéric Galliano,Takaya Nozawa, Takashi Kozasa, Asao Habe, Eli Dwek, Ute Lisenfeld, Monica Relano, José Vílchez, Eduardo Battaner, Israel Hermelo, Elias Brinks, Se-Heon Oh, Ioannis Bagetakos, Frank Bigiel, Adam Leroy, Antonio Usero, Fabian Walter, W. J. G. de Blok, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Alberto D. Bolatto, Erik Rosolowsky, Leo Blitz, Vianney Lebouteiller, Daniel Kunth, Evan D. Skillman, Urs Frischknecht, F.-K. Thielemann, Marco Pignatari, Cristina Chiappini, Claus Leitherer, Eline Tolstoy, Giuseppina Battaglia, Andrew Cole, Sven De Rijcke, Sander Valcke, Christopher J. Conselice, Samantha Penny, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, Daniela Carollo,Yutaka Komiya, Takuma Suda, Masayuki Fujimoto, Anna Frebel, Stefania Salvadori, Trinh X. Thuan, Hiroyuki Hirashita, Leslie K. Hunt, Kelsey E. Johnson, Amy E. Reines, Yuri I. Izotov, Grazyna Stasinska, E. Sabbi, K. Glatt, E. K. Grebel, C. Christian, M. Cignoni, G. Clementini, A. Cole, G. Da Costa, D. Harbeck, M. Marconi, A. Nota, T. Smecker-Hane, A. Aloisi, R. Contreras, G. Fiorentino, J. Mack, I. Musella, A. Saha, M. Sirianni, R. P. van der Marel, Matteo Monelli, David J. Rosario, Carlos Hoyos, David Koo, Andrew Phillips
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