Princeton University Star Formation/ISM Rendezvous (SFIR)

Star Formation/ISM Rendezvous (SFIR, pronunciation is "sapphire") will be held weekly. We will discuss Star/Disk/Planet Formation, Interstellar Medium, Magneto- and Radiation- Hydrodynamics (including numerical methods). The organizer is Kengo Tomida (tomida@astro.princeton.edu). ABSTRACT: I will discuss the physical properties of local analogs of high-z dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs), recently discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Thanks to their proximity and the wealth of multiwavelength data, these local DOGs are a useful testbed for studying what makes a DOG a DOG and for improving the understanding of the nature of high-z dusty galaxies including their high-z siblings.