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- 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/A+A/441/981
- Title:
- HII regions in 5 spiral galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/441/981
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained spectroscopic observations from 3600{AA} to 9200{AA} with FORS at the Very Large Telescope for approximately 70 HII regions located in the spiral galaxies NGC 1232, NGC 1365, NGC 2903, NGC 2997 and NGC 5236. These data are part of a project aiming at measuring the chemical abundances and characterizing the massive stellar content of metal-rich extragalactic HII regions. In this paper we describe our dataset, and present emission line fluxes for the whole sample. In 32 HII regions we measure at least one of the following auroral lines: [S II]4072, [N II]5755, [S III]6312 and [O II]7325. From these we derive electron temperatures, as well as oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur abundances, using classical empirical methods (both so-called "Te-based methods" and "strong line methods"). Under the assumption that the temperature gradient does not introduce severe biases, we find that the most metal-rich nebulae with detected auroral lines are found at 12+log(O/H)~8.9, i.e. about 60% larger than the adopted solar value. However, classical abundance determinations in metal-rich HII regions may be severely biased and must be tested with realistic photoionization models. The spectroscopic observations presented in this paper will serve as a homogeneous and high-quality database for such purpose.
- 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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/594/A116
- Title:
- HI4PI spectra and column density maps
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/594/A116
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Measurement of the Galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) column density, NHI, and brightness temperatures, Tb, is of high scientific value for a broad range of astrophysical disciplines. In the past two decades, one of the most-used legacy HI datasets has been the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn Survey (LAB). We release the HI 4-pi survey (HI4PI), an all-sky database of Galactic HI, which supersedes the LAB survey. The HI4PI survey is based on data from the recently completed first coverage of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) and from the third revision of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS). EBHIS and GASS share similar angular resolution and match well in sensitivity. Combining both, they are ideally suited to be a successor to LAB. The new HI4PI survey outperforms the LAB in angular resolution (16.1', FWHM) and sensitivity (43mK RMS). Moreover, it has full spatial sampling and thus overcomes a major issue of LAB, which severely undersamples the sky. We publish all-sky column density maps of the neutral atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way, along with full spectroscopic data, in several map projections including HEALPix.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/341/908
- Title:
- 308 Hipparcos stars EW Li and spectra
- Short Name:
- J/AN/341/908
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Since early 2015 a spectroscopic monitoring campaign of selected Hipparcos stars is going on at the University Observatory Jena. The aim of this project is to search for lithium at 6708{AA}, which is a youth indicator, and to measure its equivalent width to identify young runaway stars in the sample (age<=50Myr) along with the Gaia data.
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