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Programme:

19:00  BAA President – Welcome, SGM and notices

19:05  Prof Dimitra Rigopoulou, Oxford 

Lighthouses in the Universe: the tale of very luminous infrared galaxies

Summary: Discovered in the late ‘80s through images taken from the first ever satellite to map the sky at infrared wavelengths, luminous infrared galaxies are amongst the most efficient star-forming nurseries in the Universe. Their (relative) proximity offers scientists the unique opportunity to study `up close and personal’ how galaxies turn gas into stars producing some hundreds of thousands of sun-like stars in a year.

In this talk I will give an overview of what we know about these galaxies, how they turn their enormous gas reservoirs into stars and what will their fate be once they use up all their available fuel. I will also highlight some of the exciting science in the field that awaits to be uncovered with facilities that will come online in the next decade.

20:00   Sky Notes presented by Owen Brazell

20:30   Close