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Dr. Jillian Scudder ’09, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College will present. 

Observing galaxies in the Far-Infrared (FIR) gives us a unique window into the star formation rates of high redshift, dusty galaxies. These galaxies are generally thought to be forming stars at a prodigious rate, heating the internal dust reservoirs which then radiate in the FIR. It is often assumed that a bright source in the FIR belongs to a single, highly star forming galaxy, but this is impossible to verify with low resolution images. In this talk I will discuss a method of determining how many galaxies are blurred together into a single FIR detection, and what these results imply for our understanding of star formation in the earlier Universe.

Snacks at 3 PM.