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In this Letter, I distinguish "passive" inner rings as those with no current star formation, as distinct from "active" inner rings that have undergone recent star formation. I built a sample of nearby galaxies with inner rings observed in…

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New deep optical and near-infrared imaging is combined with archival ultraviolet and infrared data for fifteen nearby galaxies mapped in the Spitzer Extended Disk Galaxy Exploration Science survey. These images are particularly deep and…

Though S0 galaxies are usually thought to be `red and dead', they demonstrate often star formation organized in ring structures. We try to clarify the nature of this phenomenon and its difference from star formation in spiral galaxies. The…

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Early-type galaxies are considered to be the end-products of massive galaxy formation. Optical spectroscopic studies reveal that massive early-type galaxies formed the bulk of their stars over short timescales (1<Gyr) and at high redshift…

Nuclear rings are excellent laboratories for probing diverse phenomena such as the formation and evolution of young massive star clusters (YMCs), nuclear starbursts, as well as the secular evolution and dynamics of their host galaxies. We…

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We compare star formation in the inner and outer disks of 11 dwarf Irregular galaxies (dIm) within 3.6 Mpc. The regions are identified on GALEX near-UV images, and modeled with UV, optical, and near-IR colors to determine masses and ages. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nicholas W. Melena , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter , Lea Zernow

Last years studies have shown that the spatial regularity in the distribution of young stellar population along the spiral arms and rings of galaxies, previously considered to be rare, is a fairly common phenomenon. Spatial regularity has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 A. S. Gusev , E. V. Shimanovskaya

Young stellar associations hold a star formation record that can persist for millions of years, revealing the progression of star formation long after the dispersal of the natal cloud. To identify nearby young stellar populations that trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Ronan Kerr , Aaron C. Rizzuto , Adam L. Kraus , Stella S. R. Offner

Though S0 galaxies are usually thought to be `red and dead', they demonstrate often star formation organized in ring structures. We try to clarify the nature of this phenomenon and its difference from star formation in spiral galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Olga Sil'chenko , Alexei Moiseev

By undertaking deep long-slit spectroscopy with the focal reducer SCORPIO of the Russian 6m telescope, we studied stellar population properties and their variation with radius in 15 nearby S0 galaxies sampling a wide range of luminosities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 O. K. Sil'chenko , I. S. Proshina , A. P. Shulga , S. E. Koposov

We investigate recent star formation in the extended ultraviolet (XUV) disks of five nearby galaxies (NGC 0628, NGC 2090, NGC 2841, NGC 3621, and NGC 5055) using a long wavelength baseline comprised of ultraviolet and mid-infrared imaging…

The properties and star formation processes in the far-outer disks of nearby spiral and dwarf irregular galaxies are reviewed. The origin and structure of the generally exponential profiles in stellar disks is considered to result from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter

We present the first results of a pilot study aimed at understanding the influence of bars on the evolution of galaxy discs through the study of their stellar content. We examine here the kinematics, star formation history, mass-weighted,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez , Pierre Ocvirk , Brad K. Gibson , Isabel Perez , Reynier F. Peletier

The outer regions of disc galaxies are becoming increasingly recognized as key testing sites for models of disc assembly and evolution. Important issues are the epoch at which the bulk of the stars in these regions formed and how discs grow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 M. K. Barker , A. M. N. Ferguson , A. A. Cole , R. Ibata , M. Irwin , G. F. Lewis , T. A. Smecker-Hane , N. R. Tanvir

We measure the projected half-light radii of young star clusters in 31 galaxies from the Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). We implement a custom pipeline specifically designed to be robust against contamination, which allows us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Gillen Brown , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Studying the stellar populations in the outskirts of spiral galaxies can provide important constraints on their structure, formation, and evolution. To that end, we present VI photometry obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael K. Barker , Ata Sarajedini , Doug Geisler , Paul Harding , Robert Schommer

We combine UV/Optical/near-IR/mid-IR data on a sample of ~240 S0 galaxies to examine various star formation related processes in them. We split the sample into bright and faint S0 galaxies based on their K band luminosity. Comparing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sudhanshu Barway , Yogesh Wadadekar , Kaustubh Vaghmare , Ajit K. Kembhavi

We use the FUV fluxes measured with the GALEX to study the star formation properties of galaxies collected in the "Local Orphan Galaxies" catalog (LOG). Among 517 LOG galaxies having radial velocities V(LG) < 3500 km/s and Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva , O. V. Melnyk , H. M. Courtois

We present 4.5, 8, and 16um photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope for 204 stars in the Upper Scorpius OB Association. The data are used to investigate the frequency and properties of circumstellar disks around stars with masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John M. Carpenter , Eric E. Mamajek , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Michael R. Meyer

Small amounts of star formation in elliptical galaxies are suggested by several results: surprisingly young ages from optical line indices, cooling X-ray gas, and mid-IR dust emission. Such star formation has previously been difficult to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Alyson Ford , Joel N. Bregman