From Spiral Galaxies to CONs: Star Formation, AGN and the ISM that Fuels Them
Date: Wednesday - Friday, November 28 - 30, 2018
Time: 9:30am - 5pm
Location: NRAO-Charlottesville Auditorium
This mini-workshop is focussed on bringing together observational and theoretical researchers studying star formation and AGN in normal and starburst galaxies in the nearby and distant Universe. The commissioning of new ground-based radio/mm-wave arrays, 10m-class OIR telescopes, and space-based IR telescopes and instrumentation over the last 25 years has made it possible to achieve the sensitivity and spatial resolution required to probe active regions in galaxies down to the scales of individual star-forming regions and molecular clouds. Further, the implementation of new feedback models, and models which incorporate ISM cooling physics and supermassive black holes, have allowed us to simulate AGN activity and star formation on galaxy-wide scales from redshift 0 through the Epoch Of Reionization. This Workshop provides an informal setting in which the state of our present understanding of activity in star-forming galaxies, and the best observational and theoretical tools to study them, can be collectively discussed.
The program is posted here.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Molecular gas and star formation on small scales
- Molecular clouds and star formation properties in LIRGs vs. normal galaxies
- The role of feedback in galaxy evolution. Physical prescriptions and simulations for galactic winds and AGN feedback.
- The importance of outflows in normal galaxies vs. LIRGs. Do outflows matter for normal galaxies?
- Submillimeter astrochemistry as a tool for diagnosing star formation and AGN activity
- Coevolution of black holes and their hosts
- Observational frontiers using the next generation of telescopes.
- The nature of Compact Obscured Nuclei (CONs).
- Local galaxy observations which may shed light on high-z galaxies
