UIT Ultraviolet Surface Photometry of the Spiral Galaxy M74

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May 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...182.3103c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 182nd AAS Meeting, #31.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.840

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UV photometry from Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) images at 1520 Angstroms (magnitudes mbone) and 2490 Angstroms (maone) of the spiral galaxy M74 (NGC628) is compared with ha, R, V, and B surface photometry and models. M74's surface brightness profiles have central peaks with exponential falloffs; the profiles' exponential scale lengths increase with decreasing continuum wavelength. The slope of the continuum-subtracted ha profile is between those of FUV and NUV profiles, consistent with related origins of ha and UV emission in extreme Population I material. M74's color profiles have small gradients, all becoming bluer with increasing radius. The UIT color (mbone-maone) averages near 0.0, the color of an A0 star, over the central 20 arcsec radius, and slopes from ~ -0.2 to ~ -0.4 from 20 to 200 arcsec. Spiral arms dominate surface photometry colors; interarm regions are slightly redder. In the UV, M74's nuclear region resembles disk/spiral arm material in color and morphology, unlike M81. (mbone-maone) colors and models of M74's central region clearly demonstrate that there are no O or B stars in the central 10 arcsec. M74's (mbone-maone) profile is similar to M33's but is ~ 0.5 mag redder. M74 is ~ 0.4 mag bluer than M81 in its outer disk. We investigate explanations for both the color profiles and the differences among the galaxies. M74's maone-V and mbone-V color profiles cannot be explained by a disk of uniform color behind a screen of dust with a known reddening function, distributed like the neutral gas with a fixed gas-to-dust ratio. Known abundance variations could produce the observed color gradient in M74; however, evolutionary cluster models show that sensible time parameters, including star formation start time and exponential decay rate, also produce the observed colors of M74, M33, and M81.

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