Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2011
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Active star formation in galaxies takes place in HII regions harbouring young massive stars within an extended ionized gaseous component. Their relative structural simplicity andcharacteristic emission line spectrum make them ideal laboratories to study the physical properties and chemical composition of gas and stars in galaxies. Chemical abundancescan be derived for Galactic and relatively nearby extragalactic HII regions, as well as for distant galaxies, applying different techniques. In this talk an overview of the derivation of chemical abundances for HII regions in galaxies is presented, with an emphasis on the different domains of spatial resolution covered by the data, from spatially resolved integral field spectra of HII regions in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies to integrated spectra of more distant galaxies.With the upcome of the new integral field spectrographs a wide coverage at good spatial sampling of galaxies and HII complexes is now possible. This new 2D spectroscopy provides us more realistic information and useful constrains to study the chemical enrichment process of the interstellar medium and some of the fundamental relations governing galaxy evolution.
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