Collaborative Project: Extended Gas Around Irregular Galaxies and its Role in the Evolution of the Optical Galaxy

Wilcots，Eric AST96-16907 Wilcots博士将研究围绕着不规则星系的巨型HI包层的结构、分布、运动学和其他性质。该项目有四个具体目标--揭示扩展气体中有什么结构；测量遥远气体的运动学；确定银河系外部和内部气体之间的关系；以及确定扩展气体和光学星系恒星形成历史之间的关系。这是一个通过AST96-16940与洛厄尔天文台的Deidre Hunter博士合作的项目。

Wilcots, Eric AST 96-16907 Dr. Wilcots will study the structure, distribution, kinematics and other properties of giant H I envelopes around irregular galaxies. The project has four specific goals -- to reveal what, if any, structure there is in the extended gas; to measure the kinematics of the far-flung gas; to determine the relationship between the gas in the outer parts of the galaxy with that in the inner parts; and to determine the relationship between the extended gas and the star formation history of the optical galaxy. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Deidre Hunter at the Lowell Observatory through AST 96-16940.