Starbursts at High Redshifts



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Starbursts at High Redshifts

The bluer populations of galaxies reported many years ago by Butcher and Oemler and the recent HST images of these clusters suggest that more star formation has gone on in the past in rich clusters. Higher redshift HST images of the cluster around 3C324 at z = 1.2 suggests that even more activity is occurring at this epoch. The well-known relation between radio continuum emission and far IR dust emission shows that star formation and centimeter continuum emission are closely linked. Thus using the signature of star formation we can probe the recent activity level in distant rich clusters in the radio. However, to reach the necessary radio luminosities we are limited to z now. The enhanced VLA will be able to reach these same luminosities at , increasing the look-back time from about 50% to about 75% of a Hubble time. ()



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