Speaker: Mark Westmoquette, University College - London
Abstract: Understanding starburst-driven outflows is important for many reasons within the context of galaxy evolution. However, to understand outflows on the large scale, the details of feedback mechanisms from individual star clusters must first be understood. In this talk I will discuss recent results from a number of high spatial and spectral resolution optical integral field spectroscopic studies of the ionized gas environment surrounding super star clusters (SSCs) within nearby starbursts (e.g. NGC 1569, M82, NGC 1140). Through dynamical, excitation and density measurements, these studies are allowing us to build up a picture of (1) how power is fed from these clusters into the surrounding ISM, and (2) how the ISM properties affect how this power is directed.