High resolution spectroscopy of H II Galaxies: Structure and Supersonic line widths

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2000-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010334v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 4 figures, ApJ accepted. Also available from http://www.daf.on.br/~etelles/papers/wht.ps.gz

Scientific paper

10.1086/319015

We present high resolution echelle spectroscopy of a sample of H II galaxies. In all galaxies we identify different H(alpha) emitting knots along the slit crossing the nucleus. All of these have been isolated and separately analyzed through luminosity and size vs diagnosis plots. We find that in all cases, for a particular galaxy, the bulk of emission comes from their main knot and therefore, at least for the compact class galaxies we are dealing with, luminosity and sigma values measured using single aperture observations would provide similar results to what is obtained with spatially resolved spectroscopy. In the size vs plots as expected there is a shift in the correlations depending on whether we are including all emission in a single point or we split it in its different emitting knots. The problem of a proper determination of the size of the emitting region so that it can be used to determine the mass of the system remains open. From the data set gathered, using the highest surface brightness points as recently proposed by Fuentes-Masip et al. (2000), the best luminosity vs correlation turns out to be consistent with a Virial model.

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