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Studying the evolution of dwarf galaxies can provide insights into the characteristics of systems that can act as building blocks of massive galaxies. This paper discusses the history of star formation and gas flows (inflow and outflow) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Nao Fukagawa

A high quality, medium-resolution K-band spectrum has been obtained of the ultracompact HII region G29.96-0.02 with the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The slit was positioned along the symmetry axis of the cometary shaped nebula. Besides the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. L. Martin-Hernandez , A. Bik , L. Kaper , A. G. G. M. Tielens , M. M. Hanson

We present results of KPNO 4-m optical spectroscopy of discrete emission-line nebulae and regions of diffuse ionized gas (DIG) in M31. Long-slit spectra of 16 positions in the NE half of M31 were obtained over a 5-15 kpc range in radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. C. Galarza , R. A. M. Walterbos , R. Braun

Study the ionized gas in metal-poor environments is key to understanding the mechanisms regulating galaxy evolution. However, most of the previous studies of extragalactic HII regions rely on unresolved observations of gaseous structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 A. Andrade , I. Saviane , L. Monaco , M. Gullieuszik

We present a catalog of $\sim$52,000 extragalactic HII regions and their spectroscopic properties obtained using Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) from MUSE observations. The sample analyzed in this study contains 678 galaxies within the…

The location of HII regions, which indicates the locus of present star formation in galaxies, is analyzed for a large collection of 110 irregular galaxies (Irr) imaged in H$\alpha$ and nearby continuum. The analysis is primarily by visual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Noah Brosch , Ana Heller , Elchanan Almoznino

We discuss the results of a mass decomposition of two spiral galaxies, NGC 6824 and UGC 11919. In a previous analysis of the Hyperleda catalog, the galaxies were identified as having a peculiar dynamical $M/L$. The aim of this study is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. S. Saburova , G. I. G. Józsa , A. V. Zasov , D. V. Bizyaev

Almost all dwarf galaxies in the Local Group that are not satellites of the Milky Way or M31, belong to either one of two highly-symmetric planes. It is still a matter of debate, whether these planar structures are dynamically stable or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Tarchi , P. Castangia , G. Surcis , A. Brunthaler , C. Henkel , M. Pawlowski , K. M. Menten , A. Melis , S. Casu , M. Murgia , A. Trois , R. Concu , J. Darling

A number of very small isolated HII regions have been discovered at projected distances up to 30 kpc from their nearest galaxy. These HII regions appear as tiny emission line objects in narrow band images obtained by the NOAO Survey for…

Observations in the IJKs wave bands covering the central 20'x20' of the Local Group galaxy NGC 6822 have been performed from the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma. They have allowed us to characterize, for the first time in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. -R. L. Cioni , H. J. Habing

Estimates of gas-phase abundances based on strong-line methods have been calibrated for H~{\scshape ii} regions. Those methods ignore any contribution from the diffuse ionized gas (DIG), which shows enhanced collisional-to-recombination…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-03 N. Vale Asari

As part of our ongoing HII Region Discovery Survey (HRDS), we report the Green Bank Telescope detection of 148 new angularly-large Galactic HII regions in radio recombination line (RRL) emission. Our targets are located at a declination…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 L. D. Anderson , W. P. Armentrout , Matteo Luisi , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger

Recent morphological studies (Telles \& Terlevich 1994) of HII galaxies, i.e. dwarf galaxies dominated by a very luminous starburst, have indicated that luminous HII galaxies tend to show distorted morphology suggestive of tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Eduardo Telles , Roberto Terlevich

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS) traces ionized gas in the Galactic midplane by observing radio recombination line (RRL) emission from 4-8 GHz. The nominal survey zone is $32.3^{\circ}> {\ell} > -5^{\circ}$,…

Most of the ionized mass in the Milky Way is in the Warm Ionized Medium (WIM) and not in the bright H~II regions. The WIM is traced by dispersion measure and has been extensively studied in recombination lines (primarily, H$\alpha$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-29 S. R. Kulkarni , S. Noll , W. Kausch , Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee

We present moderate resolution spectroscopy of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (EDIG) emission in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4302. The spectra were obtained with the SparsePak integral field unit (IFU) at the WIYN Observatory. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 George H. Heald , Richard J. Rand , Robert A. Benjamin , Matthew A. Bershady

The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions contains $\sim2000$ HII region candidates lacking ionized gas spectroscopic observations. All candidates have the characteristic HII region mid-infrared morphology of WISE $12\,\,\mu\,m$ emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 L. D. Anderson , W. P. Armentrout , B. M. Johnstone , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger , V. Cunningham

In this work we quantify the degree to which star-forming events are clumped. We apply a precise and accurate technique to calculate the correlation dimension Dc of the distribution of HII regions in a sample of disk galaxies. Our reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

We present results of deep echelle spectrophotometry of eight Galactic HII regions located at Galactocentric distances between 6.3 and 10.4 kpc. The data have been taken with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Ultraviolet Echelle Spectrograph…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Esteban , J. Garcia-Rojas , M. Peimbert , A. Peimbert , M. T. Ruiz , M. Rodriguez , L. Carigi

Galaxy metallicity scaling relations provide a powerful tool for understanding galaxy evolution, but obtaining unbiased global galaxy gas-phase oxygen abundances requires proper treatment of the various line-emitting sources within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Ryan L. Sanders , Alice E. Shapley , Kai Zhang , Renbin Yan