Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, Proceedings of the XI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 8–12, 2014, in Teruel, Spain. A. J. Cenarro, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-‐Monteagudo, J. Trujillo Bueno, and L. Valdivielso (eds.)
EVN imaging of the LIRGI sample
N. Ram´ ırez-Olivencia
1, E. Varenius
2, M. A. P´ erez-Torres
1, J. Conway
2, A. Alberdi
1, and R. Herrero-Illana
1.
1
Instituto de Astrof´ısica de Andaluc´ıa (IAA-CSIC),Glorieta de la Astronom´ıa s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
2
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, 349 92 Onsala, Sweden
Abstract
We present milliarcsecond angular resolution radio observations of 8 of the most luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (U/LIRGs) in the local universe log (LIR/L)≥11.4.
obtained with the European VLBI Network at the wavelenghts of 6 and 18 cm. We aim at studying in spatial detail (few parsec) the central few hundred pc of these sources, and more specifically at tackling the following relevant questions: 1) Discern whether the dust in the central kpc is heated by a starburst or by by an Active Galactic Nuclei (SGN), or both, 2) Unveil the dust-obscured core-collapse supernova population, and 3) Study the relation between the supernova remnant luminosity function and the Star FormationRate (SFR)
