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Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993pasp..105..124s&link_type=abstract
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v.105, p.124
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An optical study of the H II region populations evident in three galaxies, M101, M51, and NGC 4449, has been made. Using narrow-band filters, emisison-line imagery has been taken using a CCD focal-reducing camera, at wavelengths covering the emission from H-alpha, H-beta, [O III], lambda-5007, and [S II] lambda-labmda-6716+6731. Using several identification techniques to select spatially the H iI regions, emission-line properties have been derived for 625 H II regions in M101, 465 in M51, and 163 in NGC 4449, making this the most complete study of its kind to date. Several trends have been discovered concerning the properties of the H II regions with radial position within their galaxy. M101 exhibits a large gradient in excitation and oxygen abundance, as well as a gradient in the line-of-sight reddening. No positional variation in the derived ionization parameter for each H II region was found. Local variations in the effective collapse density for neutral gas have been detected for both M101 and M51. No such analysis was possible for NGC 4449 due to a lack of available data. M51 shows systematic emission variations only in the brightest cores of its largest H II regions, an effect attributed to a larger influence of hte local interstellar medium on the properites of the fainter, and more obscured, H II regions. M51 exhibits a spiral pattern that does not follow a single mathematical description, departing most dramatically at the corotation radius. A variation in the evolutiionary time from peak local compression to peak star formation with radius has been detected for one of the arms in the galaxy, but not the other. NGC 4449 displays no systematic variations in the derived emission properites of its H II region population. This is attributed to a star-formation mechanism that is independent of the radial ordinate, contrasting with the spiral density-wave mechanism dominant in spiral galaxies. Unprecedently deep CCD imagery of this galaxy is presented, revealing the complicated structure of ionized filaments between the H II regions. The emission properties of these filaments are studied. (SECTION: Dissertation Abstracts)
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