Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ap%26ss.335..249b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 335, No. 1, p. 249-255
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Massive, Stars: Early-Type, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Formation, Ultraviolet: Stars, Galaxies: Stellar Content, Galaxies: Star Formation, (Galaxies:) Local Group, Galaxies: Star Clusters
Scientific paper
The study of the stellar constituents of star-forming sites in a wide variety of conditions yields the key to interpreting wide-field UV-optical imaging of extended nearby galaxies, and of distant galaxies. We obtained six-band imaging (from far-UV to I) with HST-WFPC2 of 67 sites of recent star formation in eight Local Group galaxies. HST pointings were selected from GALEX wide-field FUV imaging, which traces the young stellar populations. The HST observations were optimized to characterize the hottest, most massive stars in these regions. From the HST photometry, analyzed with stellar model colors, we derived the physical parameters of the massive stars in each field, and of the extinction by interstellar dust. The HST results are used to interpret GALEX UV measurements of SF across the entire galaxies. Our comprehensive photometric study at HST resolution (sub-pc scale in these galaxies) also provides an ideal selection of targets for follow-up spectroscopy with large ground-based telescopes, and in the UV with HST- or WSO-class telescopes, to clarify the influence of metallicity on the properties and the evolution of massive stars.
Bianchi Luciana
Efremova Boryana
Hodge Paul
Kang Yong Beom
Massey Pedro
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