Testing Star Formation Rate Indicators with LMC HII Regions

Details Testing Star Formation Rate Indicators with LMC HII Regions Testing Star Formation Rate Indicators with LMC HII Regions

Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...197.7917b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #79.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1534

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Magellanic Clouds provide a unique opportunity to investigate the systematic uncertainties inherent to commonly-used star formation rate indicators. Far-UV through radio spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a sample of HII regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud have been derived. Using these HII region SEDs, we have explored the balance of far-IR and far-UV luminosities, the attenuation suffered by Hα light, and relationship between the ionizing and non-ionizing far-UV luminosities. We also explore the difficulties encountered when trying to use these SEDs to constrain the ages, recently-formed stellar masses and obscurations of our sample of HII regions. This work was supported by NASA LTSA grant NAG5-8426.

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