Star Formation in Disk Galaxies
Rosemary FG Wyse, Deidre A Hunter, Jay S Gallagher and Annette MN Ferguson
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
15(1) 118 - 122
Published: 1998
Abstract
We present results, some preliminary, from a major new study of the star formation properties of a sample of nearby disk galaxies (Ferguson 1997). Our emphasis is on the faint outer regions of disks. Halpha images, combined with broad-band images and spectroscopy of HII regions, constrain the present and past star formation rates and chemical enrichment. These data also allow study of faint diffuse ionised gas, which traces the influence of massive stars on their environment, and the structure of the interstellar medium.https://doi.org/10.1071/AS98118
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