- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/444/757
- Title:
- HII complexes optical and IR emissions
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/444/757
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of optical spectroscopy and infrared aperture photometry of more than 100 HII complexes in nine galaxies. Spectra obtained with the 6-m telescope of Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences are used along with archival data from Spitzer and several ground-based telescopes to infer a strength of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission, age, properties of the UV radiation field, and metallicity of studied HII complexes. Physical properties (age, radiation field parameters, metallicity) are related to the F_8_/F_24_ ratio used as a proxy for the PAH abundance in order to reveal factors that may influence the PAH evolution in HII complexes. The well-known correlation between the F_8_/F_24_ ratio and metallicity is confirmed in the studied complexes. The infrared flux ratio also correlates with the [Oiii]{lambda}5007/H{beta} ratio which is often considered as an indicator of the radiation field hardness, but this correlation seems to be a mere reflection of a correlation between [Oiii]{lambda}5007/H{beta} and metallicity. In separate metallicity bins, the F_8_/F_24_ ratio is found to correlate with an age of an Hii complex, which is estimated from the equivalent width of H{beta} line. The correlation is positive for low-metallicity complexes and negative for high-metallicity complexes. Analysing various mechanisms of PAH formation and destruction in the context of found correlations, we suggest that PAH abundance is likely altered by the UV radiation within HII complexes, but this is not necessarily due to their destruction. If PAHs can also form in Hii complexes due to some processes like aromatization, photodestruction, shattering and sputtering of very small grains, the net F_8_/F_24_ ratio is determined by a balance between all these processes that can be different at different metallicities.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/830/4
- Title:
- HII region abundances in NGC 5457 (M101)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/830/4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Large Binocular Telescope observations of 109 HII regions in NGC 5457 (M101) obtained with the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph. We have robust measurements of one or more temperature-sensitive auroral emission lines for 74 HII regions, permitting the measurement of "direct" gas-phase abundances. Comparing the temperatures derived from the different ionic species, we find: (1) strong correlations of T[NII] with T[SIII] and T[OIII], consistent with little or no intrinsic scatter; (2) a correlation of T[SIII] with T[OIII], but with significant intrinsic dispersion; (3) overall agreement between T[NII], T[SII], and T[OII], as expected, but with significant outliers; (4) the correlations of T[NII] with T[SIII] and T[OIII] match the predictions of photoionization modeling while the correlation of T[SIII] with T[OIII] is offset from the prediction of photoionization modeling. Based on these observations, which include significantly more observations of lower excitation HII regions, missing in many analyses, we inspect the commonly used ionization correction factors (ICFs) for unobserved ionic species and propose new empirical ICFs for S and Ar. We have discovered an unexpected population of HII regions with a significant offset to low values in Ne/O, which defies explanation. We derive radial gradients in O/H and N/O which agree with previous studies. Our large observational database allows us to examine the dispersion in abundances, and we find intrinsic dispersions of 0.074+/-0.009 in O/H and 0.095+/-0.009 in N/O (at a given radius). We stress that this measurement of the intrinsic dispersion comes exclusively from direct abundance measurements of HII regions in NGC 5457.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/602/200
- Title:
- HII regions abundances in blue compact galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/602/200
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use spectroscopic observations of a sample of 82 HII regions in 76 blue compact galaxies to determine the primordial helium abundance Yp and the slope dY/dZ from the Y-O/H linear regression. To improve the accuracy of the dY/dZ measurement, we have included new spectrophotometric observations of 33 HII regions that span a large metallicity range, with oxygen abundance 12+log(O/H) varying between 7.43 and 8.30 (Z_{sun}_/30<=Z<=Z_{sun}_/4). Most of the new galaxies were selected from the First Byurakan, the Hamburg/SAO, and the University of Michigan objective prism surveys.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/655/814
- Title:
- HII regions in IC 342/Maffei group
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/655/814
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained spectra of HII regions in the heavily obscured spiral galaxy Maffei 2. The observations have allowed for a determination of the Galactic extinction of this galaxy using a correlation between extinction and hydrogen column density observed among spiral galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/14.1393
- Title:
- HII regions in interacting system Arp 86
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/14.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the metallicity and star formation activities of HII regions in the interacting system Arp 86, based on the first scientific observations using multi-object spectroscopy with the 2.16m telescope at the Xinglong Observing Station. We find that the oxygen abundance gradient in Arp 86 is flatter than that in normal disk galaxies, which confirms that gas inflows caused by tidal forces during encounters can flatten the metallicity distributions in galaxies. The companion galaxy NGC 7752 is currently experiencing a galaxy-wide starburst with a higher star formation rate surface density than the main galaxy NGC 7753, which can be explained in that the companion galaxy is more susceptible to the effects of interaction than the primary. We also find that the galaxy 2MASX J23470758+2926531 has similar abundance and star formation properties to NGC 7753, and may be a part of the Arp 86 system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/529/A149
- Title:
- HII regions in low-metallicity galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/529/A149
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present deep spectroscopy of a large sample of low-metallicity emission-line galaxies. The main goal of this study is to derive element abundances in these low-metallicity galaxies. We analyze 121 VLT spectra of HII regions in 46 low-metallicity emission-line galaxies. Of these spectra 83 are archival VLT/FORS1+UVES spectra of HII regions in 31 low-metallicity emission-line galaxies that are studied for the first time with standard direct methods to determine the electron temperatures, the electron number densities, and the chemical abundances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/2246
- Title:
- HII regions in UGCA 86, 92, 105 and UGC 4115
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/116/2246
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Luminosity functions in H{alpha} have been measured for H II regions in the four dwarf galaxies UGCA 86, UGCA 92, UGCA 105, and UGC 4115 using both the traditional flux measurement method of fixed-threshold photometry (FTP) and the new method, percentage-of-peak photometry (PPP). The UGCA galaxies are members of the IC 342-Maffei 1 group. These two methods give significantly different results in galaxies in which significant numbers of peaks are associated with H II region complexes. The work demonstrates that fluxes from FTP can lead to biased luminosity functions and that PPP should, in general, be preferred. It is also shown that PPP luminosity functions are not very sensitive to atmospheric transparency, whereas those constructed from FTP can be, based on data taken under different atmospheric conditions. Results to date for six galaxies show that spirals and dwarfs have luminosity functions of similar shape, which implies that the distribution of the masses of star formation sites is largely independent of the mass, and by implication, the metallicity, of the host galaxy. As measured by PPP, the mean surface brightness of the lower luminosity H II regions grows as the one-third power of the flux grows, exactly as predicted for an ensemble in which the gas density does not vary systematically with the mass of the star cluster. For the brightest H II regions, however, the relation steepens, which implies that the most massive star clusters are formed out of the densest clouds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/611/A38
- Title:
- Hints for a bar in M31 kinematics and morphology
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/611/A38
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As the nearest large spiral galaxy, M 31 provides a unique opportunity to study the structure and evolutionary history of this galaxy type in great detail. Among the many observing programs aimed at M 31 are microlensing studies, which require good three-dimensional models of the stellar mass distribution. Possible non-axisymmetric structures like a bar need to be taken into account. Due to M 31's high inclination, the bar is difficult to detect in photometry alone. Therefore, detailed kinematic measurements are needed to constrain the possible existence and position of a bar in M 31. We obtained ~=220 separate fields with the optical integral-field unit spectrograph VIRUS-W, covering the whole bulge region of M 31 and parts of the disk. We derived stellar line-of-sight velocity distributions from the stellar absorption lines, as well as velocity distributions and line fluxes of the emission lines H{beta}, [OIII] and [NI]. Our data supersede any previous study in terms of spatial coverage and spectral resolution. We find several features that are indicative of a bar in the kinematics of the stars, we see intermediate plateaus in the velocity and the velocity dispersion, and correlation between the higher moment h3 and the velocity. The gas kinematics is highly irregular, but is consistent with non-triaxial streaming motions caused by a bar. The morphology of the gas shows a spiral pattern, with seemingly lower inclination than the stellar disk. We also look at the ionization mechanisms of the gas, which happens mostly through shocks and not through starbursts.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/113/905
- Title:
- HI observations of galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/113/905
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present H I 21-cm line observations of 543 galaxies at low galactic latitude in the Galactic Anticenter region of the Zone of Avoidance (4h<={alpha}<=8h, 0{deg}=<{delta}=<37{deg}). The sample comprises 147 catalogued objects (from UGC, CGCG, MCG, and IRAS) still missing a redshift measurement and a list of 369 objects selected from an extensive optical compilation of galaxy candidates in this area. The spectra were acquired using the 305-m Arecibo telescope and cover a velocity range from -350 to +13800km/s at a resolution of about 16km/s. 196 galaxies were detected,59 of the catalogued ones and 137 from the optical compilation. The H I derived properties are presented, as is a discussion regarding the redshift distribution in this region. Our data seem to be consistent with a link across the Zone of Avoidance between the Pisces-Perseus supercluster and Abell 569.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/73
- Title:
- HI Parkes All Sky Survey Catalogue (HIPASS)
- Short Name:
- VIII/73
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) Catalogue forms the largest uniform catalogue of HI sources compiled to date, with 4315 sources identified purely by their HI content. The catalogue data comprise the southern region DE<+2{deg} of HIPASS, the first blind HI survey to cover the entire southern sky. RMS noise for this survey is 13mJy/beam and the velocity range is -1280 to 12700km/s. Data search, verification and parametrization methods are discussed along with a description of measured quantities. Full catalogue data is made available to the astronomical community including positions, velocities, velocity widths, integrated fluxes and peak flux densities. Also available are on-sky moment maps, position- velocity moment maps and spectra of catalogue sources. A number of local large-scale features are observed in the space distribution of sources including the Super-Galactic plane and the Local Void. Notably, large-scale structure is seen at low Galactic latitudes, a region normally obscured at optical wavelengths.
