Ultraviolet Observations of M51 with Swift/UVOT

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #04.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present a study of star-forming regions in M51 using observations from the Swift UV/Optical telescope (UVOT). We have obtained deep UV images in three filters in the near UV (UVW2, UVM2, UVW1) ranging from 1600 Angstroms to 3500 Angstroms. Compared to GALEX, our data provide improved color resolution, as well as improved spatial resolution (FWHM 2 arcsec). We use these data in combination with existing optical observations to place constraints on the ages, masses, and reddening of the star-forming regions in M51, and study the star formation history of the galaxy.
This work is sponsored at Penn State by NASA contract NAS5-00136 and and at Mullard Space Science Laboratory by funding from PPARC.

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