WFPC2 Observations of the Nuclear Starburst in NGC 253

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...185.7512w&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #75.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1432

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present UVRI and Hα images of the nuclear starburst in NGC 253, a barred spiral galaxy located at a distance of only 3 Mpc. We resolve the nuclear region into many star-forming complexes, most of which are themselves resolved for the first time and have typical diameters of up to about 5 pc. We also resolve the brightest stars in the circumnuclear region. The Hα emission lies in a fan to the SE of the nucleus, and both it and dust absorption has a distinctive radial filamentary structure. This is probably the result of the superwind being driven by the starburst.

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