@inproceedings{4d1f9290213f46f08e2c52d7a5f869f5,
title = "The star formation history of early-type galaxies",
abstract = "The UV light is an effective tracer for young stars. Base on the recent GALEX UV data of nearby, bright early-type galaxies, we find that 30% of them show a UV flux that is too strong to explain without invoking a 1-3% (in total stellar mass) star formation rate in the last billion years. This implies that low-level residual star formation was common during the last few billion years even in bright, early-type galaxies. We discuss the implications for the formation and evolution of early-type galaxies. This article is a summary of our recent work (Yi et al. 2005; Schawinski et al. 2006; Kaviraj et al. 2006).",
author = "S.K. Yi and S. Kaviraj and K. Schawinski and {GALEX Team}",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789703232734",
volume = "28",
series = "Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias",
publisher = "Instituto de Astronom{\'i}a, UNAM",
pages = "109--112",
editor = "S. Kurtz and J. Franco and S. Hong and G. Garcia-Segura and A. Santillan and J. Kim and I. Han",
booktitle = "The 3rd Mexico-Korea Conference on Astrophysics",
address = "Mexico",
note = "The third Mexico-Korea conference on astrophysics: telescopes of the future and San Pedro Martir ; Conference date: 08-11-2005 Through 11-11-2005",
}