Multiwavelength Study of the Starburst Galaxy NGC 7714. II: The Balance between Young, Intermediate Age and Old Stars

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2001-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101327v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages (+20 figures and tables), Latex2e (figs. included), uses aastex.cls. To be published in ApJ (May 2001 issue)

Scientific paper

10.1086/320456

We combine existing multiwavelength data (incl. an HST/GHRS UV spectrum, an optical spectrum, far-IR, Xray and radio fluxes) with new HST/WFPC2 images, near-IR photometry and K band spectroscopy. We use these data to constrain the young, the intermediate age and the old stellar populations in the central 330 pc of the starburst galaxy NGC 7714. [...] We find that the young burst responsible for the UV light is only a small part of an extended episode of enhanced star formation (SF) [...]. The mass of young and intermediate age stars thus formed equals at least 10% of the mass locked in pre-existing stars of the underlying galaxy nucleus [...]. The spectrophotometric SF timescale is long compared to the ~110 Myr elapsed since closest contact with NGC 7715. The trigger of the starburst remains elusive. NGC 7714 owes its brightness in the UV to a few low extinction lines of sight towards young stars. [...] The different extinction estimates obtained from different indicators result naturally from the coexistence of populations with various ages and obscurations. The near-IR continuum image looks smoothest, as a consequence of lower sensitivity to extinction and of a larger contribution of old stars. We compare the nuclear properties of NGC 7714 with results from studies in larger apertures. We emphasize that the global properties of starburst galaxies are the result of the averaging over many lines of sight with diverse properties in terms of obscuration and stellar ages.

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