Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-09-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file including three figures. Figures 1a,b,c,d and 2a,b,c,d (postscript) are availab
Scientific paper
We present new high quality continuum-subtracted H alpha images of the grand-design galaxies NGC 157, NGC 3631, NGC 6764 and NGC 6951. We have determined the positions, angular sizes, and fluxes of their individual HII regions, and describe statistical properties of the HII region samples. We construct luminosity functions for all the HII regions in the disc and separately for arm and interarm zones for each galaxy. The slopes of the luminosity functions for the complete sample agree well with values published for other spiral galaxies of comparable morphological type. For three galaxies we determined the slopes of the luminosity functions for the spiral arm and interarm zones separately. We find that for NGC 157, NGC 3631, and NGC 6951 these slopes are equal within the errors of determination. We compare our results to those found from earlier work, specifically for M51 and NGC 6814, and discuss implications for massive star forming processes.
Beckman John E.
Knapen Johan H.
Rozas Maite
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