The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

Luminous infrared galaxies

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/946

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IRAS galaxies
LIRG
LIRGs
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broader
http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/790 original
narrower
946 original
definition A galaxy that emits most of its energy in the infrared and whose infrared luminosity (in the 8-1000 µm range) is more than 10^11 solar luminosities.
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contributor AAS_Frey.Katie_Admin original