Abstract
The infrared regime contains a number of unique diagnostic features for probing the astrophysics of starburst galaxies. After a brief summary of the most important tracers, we focus in detail on the use of emission lines to probe the upper part of the main sequence in a young super star cluster in the Antennae galaxies, and the compact, dusty starburst in the nucleus of the nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220.
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van der Werf, P.P., Snijders, L. (2005). Dissecting Starburst Galaxies with Infrared Observations. In: De Grijs, R., González Delgado, R.M. (eds) Starbursts. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 329. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3539-X_19
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