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Extensive photoionization model grids for single star HII regions using a variety of recent state-of-the-art stellar atmosphere models have been computed with the main aim of constraining/testing their predicted ionizing spectra against…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Morisset , D. Schaerer , J. -C. Bouret , F. Martins

Resolution of nearby giant HII regions into their stellar and nebular constituents provides fundamental insights for interpreting more distant and powerful starburst activity. The following summarizes recent advances in our understanding of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 William H. Waller

Most structural and evolutionary properties of galaxies strongly rely on the stellar initial mass function (IMF), namely the distribution of the stellar mass formed in each episode of star formation. As the IMF shapes the stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-31 Jiadong Li , Chao Liu , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaoting Fu , Jiao Li , Zhi-Qiang Yan

We present a spatially-resolved HII region study of the gas-phase metallicity, ionization parameter, and ISM pressure maps of 6 local star-forming and face-on spiral galaxies from the TYPHOON program. Self-consistent metallicity, ionization…

We infer the properties of massive star populations using the far-ultraviolet stellar continua of 61 star-forming galaxies: 42 at low-z observed with HST and 19 at z~2 from the Megasaura sample. We fit each stellar continuum with a linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 J. Chisholm , J. R. Rigby , M. Bayliss , D. A. Berg , H. Dahle , M. Gladders , K. Sharon

The relatively red wavelength range (4800-9300{\AA}) of the VLT Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) limits which metallicity diagnostics can be used; in particular excluding those requiring the [O ii]{\lambda}{\lambda}3726,29 doublet.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-08 Bethan Easeman , Patricia Schady , Stijn Wuyts , Robert Yates

We report the statistical properties of stars and brown dwarfs obtained from four radiation hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation, the metallicities of which span a range from 1/100 to 3 times the solar value. Unlike previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 Matthew R. Bate

We present near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of ten Herschel selected galaxies at z~1.5. From detailed mapping of the H$\alpha$ and [NII] emission lines we trace the dynamics, star formation rates, metallicities and also investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 R. J. Williams , R. Maiolino , P. Santini , A. Marconi , G. Cresci , F. Mannucci , D. Lutz

Metallicity plays a crucial role in the evolution of massive stars and their final core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions. Integral-field-unit (IFU) spectroscopy can provide a spatially resolved view of SN host galaxies and serve as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-04 Qiang Xi , Ning-Chen Sun , Yi-Han Zhao , Justyn R. Maund , Zexi Niu , Adam J. Singleton , Jifeng Liu

In this paper we analyse the statistics of the 2D gas-phase oxygen abundance distributions of 100 nearby galaxies drawn from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field spectroscopy Area survey. After removing the large-scale radial metallicity…

HII regions, ionized nebulae where massive star formation has taken place, exhibit a wealth of emission lines that are the fundamental basis for estimating the chemical composition of the Universe. For more than 80 years, a discrepancy of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-22 J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado , César Esteban , Jorge García-Rojas , Kathryn Kreckel , Manuel Peimbert

Recent observations indicate a lower Halpha to FUV ratio in dwarf galaxies than in brighter systems, a trend that could be explained by a truncated and/or steeper IMF in small galaxies. However, at low star formation rates (SFRs), the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michele Fumagalli , Robert L. da Silva , Mark R. Krumholz

Medium-resolution spectra from 3650 angstroms to 10,000 angstroms are presented for 96 giant H II regions distributed in 20 spiral galaxies. We have calculated two separate grids of photoionization models, adopting single-star atmospheres…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Bresolin , R. C. Kennicutt , D. R. Garnett

Stellar clusters are regularly used to study the evolution of their host galaxy. Except for a few nearby galaxies, these studies rely on the interpretation of integrated cluster properties, especially integrated photometry observed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-17 P. Anders , R. Kotulla , R. de Grijs , J. Wicker

The distribution of metals within a galaxy traces the baryon cycle and the buildup of galactic disks, but the detailed gas phase metallicity distribution remains poorly sampled. We have determined the gas phase oxygen abundances for 7,138…

Geostatistical methods are powerful tools for understanding the spatial structure of the metallicity distribution of galaxies, and enable construction of accurate predictive models of the 2D metallicity distribution. However, so far these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-15 Benjamin Metha , Michele Trenti , Andrew Battisti , Tingjin Chu

We present spectrophotometry in the 3600-9700 A region for a sample of 39 H II regions in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds, for which independent information is available on the spectral types and effective temperatures of the ionizing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 R. C. Kennicutt, , F. Bresolin , H. French , P. Martin

One of the most remarkable outcomes from \textit{JWST} has been the exquisite UV-optical spectroscopic data for galaxies in the high-redshift Universe ($z \geq 5$), enabling the use of various nebular emission lines to infer conditions of…

Generally the gas metallicity in distant galaxies can only be inferred by using a few prominent emission lines. Various theoretical models have been used to predict the relationship between emission line fluxes and metallicity, suggesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Tohru Nagao , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi

Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) is prevalent in star-forming galaxies. Using a sample of 365 nearly face-on star-forming galaxies observed by MaNGA, we demonstrate how DIG in star-forming galaxies impacts the measurements of emission line ratios,…