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Humans of UD
February 6, 2020
Not every college kid has a Stephen Hawking quote as their Instagram biography, but junior Samantha “Sam” Garza has an unusual passion for science which has already taken her to the Milky Way.
Garza came to the University of Dallas already knowing that she wanted to pursue a career in physics, but she was particularly interested in astrophysics and astronomy...
Article Published in the University of Dallas Journal of Science
December 2019
From observations of star-forming regions in the Milky Way and in external galaxies, dense gas has been found to be a site of star formation. One study, observed a strong linear relationship between the recent star formation rate, SFR, as traced by the total infrared emission, and the dense gas traced by HCN luminosity within their sample of 53 whole galaxies and bright galaxy centers which varied from normal spirals to ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs)...