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Starbursts in the Irregular Galaxy VV 523

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

G. Tenorio-Tagle
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
J. Hecquet
Affiliation:
Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
R. Augarde
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille, 2 place Le Verrier, F-13248 Marseille cedex 4, France
G. Coupinot
Affiliation:
Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
M. Aurière
Affiliation:
Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
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Summary

Introduction

VV 523 (= NGC 3991 – UGC 6933 – IRAS11549+3237) is a typical clumpy irregular galaxy. Its distance is 42.6 Mpc, its absolute blue magnitude is −20.2 and its UB index –0.44. On CCD frames taken at the Bernard Lyot 2-m telescope of the Observatoire du Pic-du- Midi VV 523 shows a complex structure with three components of bright clumps scattered in a common envelope. The extension of the envelope is 80″ × 2″ within a surface brightness of 25 mag arcsec−2.

Observations

Three filters (B, R and I) were used for the CCD observations. The seeing was about 1 arcsecond. A wavelet transform with a scale parameter suited to the size of the starforming cells was used to detect the clumps and to provide their size, location and colour indexes. Figure 1 shows the wavelet transform of the B image. The photometric results are in Table 1. The clumps have a mean size of 200 parsecs and the BI indexes exhibit a sequence in colour which corresponds to their location in the galaxy.

Long-slit spectra with a dispersion of 33 and 260 Å mm−1 were recorded with the Carelec spectrograph at the 1.93-m telescope of the Observatoire de Haute Provence. The spectra show strong emission lines typical of HII regions. Three regions of different intensities are detected and named A, B and C. In Table 1 we give the physical properties of each of the three regions.

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Violent Star Formation
From 30 Doradus to QSOs
, pp. 317 - 318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1994

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  • Starbursts in the Irregular Galaxy VV 523
    • By J. Hecquet, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, R. Augarde, Observatoire de Marseille, 2 place Le Verrier, F-13248 Marseille cedex 4, France, G. Coupinot, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, M. Aurière, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
  • G. Tenorio-Tagle, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
  • Book: Violent Star Formation
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600159.056
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  • Starbursts in the Irregular Galaxy VV 523
    • By J. Hecquet, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, R. Augarde, Observatoire de Marseille, 2 place Le Verrier, F-13248 Marseille cedex 4, France, G. Coupinot, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, M. Aurière, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
  • G. Tenorio-Tagle, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
  • Book: Violent Star Formation
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600159.056
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  • Starbursts in the Irregular Galaxy VV 523
    • By J. Hecquet, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, R. Augarde, Observatoire de Marseille, 2 place Le Verrier, F-13248 Marseille cedex 4, France, G. Coupinot, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France, M. Aurière, Observatoire du Pic-du-Midi, U.R.A. 1281 du CNRS, F-65200 Bagnères de Bigorre, France
  • G. Tenorio-Tagle, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
  • Book: Violent Star Formation
  • Online publication: 10 November 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511600159.056
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