2 papers
astro-ph2007
Extreme Outer Galaxy: A Laboratory of Star Formation in an Early Epoch of Galaxy Formation
Naoto Kobayashi, Chikako Yasui, Alan T. Tokunaga +1
The extreme outer Galaxy (EOG) has a very different environment from that in the solar neighborhood, with low metallicity (less than -0.5 dex), much lower gas density, and small or…
astro-ph2007
Star Formation in the Extreme Outer Galaxy: the IMF in a low metallicity environment
Chikako Yasui, Naoto Kobayashi, Alan T. Tokunaga +2
We are conducting a deep near-infrared (NIR) imaging survey of young embedded clusters in the extreme outer Galaxy (hereafter EOG), at the Galactic radius (R_g) of more than 18 kpc…