Abstract
The starburst plus radio hypernovae scenario presented for high-luminosity (HLIRGs) and ultraluminous IRAS galaxies (ULIRGs) in Colina & Perez-Olea (1992) is used to predict the [Fe II] 1.64 μm luminosity in these galaxies, as well as the [Fe II] 1.64 μm, radio, and Brγ luminosity rates. These are good indicators to characterize starbursts in heavily obscured environments, i.e., buried starbursts, such as those believed to exist in HLIRGs and ULIRGs. The predicted [Fe II] 1.64 μm luminosity for HLIRGs and ULIRGs is in the range 10 40 -10 42 ergs s −1 while the rate of [Fe II] 1.64 μm to radio luminosity, with a mean value of 17, is almost independent of the initial mass function parameters
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