Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.9509z&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #95.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.896
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
As some of the smallest and most numerous galaxies in the universe, dwarf irregular (dIm) galaxies give many opportunities for developing an understanding of the manner in which the universe operates. In particular, these galaxies offer challenges to standard models of star formation. The concentration of gas is sufficiently small that the standard models cannot account for the presence of stars in the galaxies.
In order to examine this paradox, we used ultraviolet images obtained with the GALEX satellite and optical ground-based imaging to examine the properties of star-forming regions in three dIm galaxies: DDO 50, IC 1613, and WLM. We identified candidate young star-forming regions on near ultraviolet (NUV, 2270 Angstroms) images. We then measured the brightness of the regions in the NUV, far ultraviolet (FUV, 1520 Angstroms), and UBV images. Colors were compared to cluster evolutionary models to estimate ages of the regions, which enabled an estimate of the visual magnitude at a fiducial age of ten million years. We divided the galaxies into three broad annuli in order to compare properties of the star-forming regions as a function of radius. We discuss the properties of star-forming regions in the three galaxies in the context of current star formation models that predict star formation on the basis of large-scale gravitational instability and local-scale gas compression.
LZ extends gratitude for funding from the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at Northern Arizona University through grant AST-0453611. DAH gratefully acknowledges funding for this research from the NASA GALEX program through grant NNX07AJ36G.
Hunter Deidre Ann
Zernow Lea
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