Bibcode
Sánchez Almeida, J.; Olmo-García, A.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.; Elmegreen, D. M.; Filho, M. E.; Pérez-Montero, E.; Amorín, R.
Bibliographical reference
Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 321, pp. 208-210
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2017
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Description
Disk galaxies in cosmological numerical simulations grow by accreting
gas from the cosmic web. This gas reaches the external disk, and then
spirals in dragged along by tidal forces and/or disk instabilities. The
importance of gas infall is as clear from numerical simulations as it is
obscure to observations. Extremely metal poor (XMP) galaxies seem to be
the best example we have of the gas accretion process at work. They have
large off-center starbursts which show significant metallicity drop
compared with the host galaxy. This observation is naturally explained
as a gas accretion event caught in the act. We present preliminary
results of the kinematical properties of the metal poor starbursts in
XMPs, which suggest that the starbursts are kinematically decoupled
entities within the host galaxy.