Description
Statistical properties of HII region populations in disk galaxies yield important clues to the physics of massive star formation. We present a set of HII region catalogues and luminosity functions for a sample of 56 spiral galaxies in order to derive the most general form of their luminosity function. HII region luminosity functions were derived for individual galaxies which, after photometric calibration, were summed to form a total luminosity function comprising 17797 HII regions from 53 galaxies.
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