Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-20
Astron.J.133:757-767,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/510358
We present high spectral resolution (v~12-16 km/s) Brackett line spectroscopy of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 made with NIRSPEC on the Keck Telescope. The spatial resolution is seeing limited, at 1". We detect two distinct kinematic features separated by approximately 3", with heliocentric velocities of ~860 and ~890 km/s. In addition to a narrow core, the line profiles also display a broad, low intensity feature on the blue side of the centroid, which we attribute to an outflow. This may be a sign of aging in the clusters. We compare to archival high resolution Very Large Array (VLA) data at 1.3 cm, and find that the centimeter wavelength emission is resolved into six sources. These radio sources are organized into two larger groups, which we associate with the two kinematic peaks in the Brackett spectrum. We estimate a Lyman continuum rate of at least 7 x 10^52 s^-1, with a corresponding stellar mass of 6 x 10^6 M_sun is required to ionize the nebulae. We also estimate the size of the nebulae from the radio continuum brightness and find that the observed sources probably contain many HII regions in smaller, unresolved clumps. Brackett line profiles have supersonic line widths, but, aside from the blue wing, are comparable to line widths observed in Galactic ultracompact HII regions, which are excited by a single star, or a few stars.
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Beck Sara C.
Crostwaite Lucian P.
Henry Alaina L.
Meier David Stuart
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