20–27 Mar 2026
Wild View Resorts
Africa/Gaborone timezone

Constraining Star Formation Rates in Post Star burst galaxies

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20m
Wild View Resorts

Wild View Resorts

Plot 80 President Avenue, Kasane, Botswana
In-person - Poster Presentation 10 S&E poster Science & Engineering

Speaker

Leatile Makoko (BIUST)

Description

This project dealt with restricting the birth rate of stars in post-starburst galaxies. Post-starburst galaxies are transitioning between young and old galaxies. They have different markers for identifying recent starburst like balmer absorption and nebular emmissions. Here we used Type II supernovae because they result from relatively young stars. This was important in further refining the star birthrate of port-starburst galaxies. We cross matched datasets from the Sloan Digital SKy Survey poststarburst galaxies identified by Alatalo(2016) and Goto(2007) with Type II supernovae from the Zwicky Bright Transient Facility. We found star formation of about 0.06 solar masses per cubic megaparsec per year.

Stream Science or Engineering

Primary author

Leatile Makoko (BIUST)

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