A Hubble Space Telescope planetary camera view of giant H II regions - The Wolf-Rayet content of NGC 595 and NGC 604 in M33

Details A Hubble Space Telescope planetary camera view of giant H II regions - The Wolf-Rayet content of NGC 595 and NGC 604 in M33 A Hubble Space Telescope planetary camera view of giant H II regions - The Wolf-Rayet content of NGC 595 and NGC 604 in M33

Apr 1993

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 105, no. 4, p. 1400-1410.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

56

Astronomical Photometry, H Ii Regions, Hubble Space Telescope, O Stars, Stellar Luminosity, Wolf-Rayet Stars, Brightness Distribution, Cameras, Spiral Galaxies

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We present images of NGC 595 and NGC 604, the most massive giant H II regions in M33, obtained with the Planetary Camera aboard the HST in order to study their WR population. Fourteen WR and/or Of candidates are detected in NGC 604, and eleven in NGC 595. All previously claimed 'superluminous' WR stars are found to be tight (diameter less than 3 pc) stellar aggregates containing one (or sometimes more) normal WR star. As suspected from ground-based data, the WR/O number ratio is significantly higher in NGC 595 (about 0.3) than in NGC 604 (about 0.1). The WR stars may be major contributors to the output of mechanical power and energy into the interstellar medium in both clusters. Over the observable initial mass range, the initial mass functions (IMFs) have similar slopes. These IMFs are somewhat flatter than those generally derived for massive stars in the Galaxy or the Magellanic Clouds.

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