NGC 4314. II - Hubble Space Telescope I-band surface photometry of the nuclear region

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Apr 1993

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 105, no. 4, p. 1369-1377.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

36

Barred Galaxies, Galactic Nuclei, Galactic Structure, Star Clusters, Star Formation, Astronomical Photometry, Cameras, Cosmic Dust, Galactic Bulge, H Ii Regions, Hubble Space Telescope, Size Distribution, Stellar Luminosity

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We present an HST I-band Planetary Camera image of the nuclear region of NGC 4314, an anemic barred galaxy with recent star formation confined to a nuclear ring. These data resolve the nuclear ring into multiple sites of new star formation and resolve associated dust lanes into discrete clouds. Deconvolution results in at least 0.13 arcsec resolution, as demonstrated by the de Vaucouleurs r exp 1/4 law. Contrasted with similar studies of M87 and NGC 7457, we find no photometric evidence for an extreme concentration of stars in the center of NGC 4314. We identify an oval distortion of length 8 arcsec in the nuclear region, using ellipse-fitting routines and the unsharp masked frame. This nuclear bar has newer stars near its ends. We catalog 14 star clusters associated with H II regions in the nuclear ring. As an additional demonstration of the resolution achieved, the integral size distribution of these clusters is described by an exponential relationship which prevails down to 0.14 arcsec.

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