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Environmental effects in galaxies – searching for massive stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Duíla F. de Mello ,
Marcio A.G. Maia ,
Daniel Schaerer  and
Claus Leitherer
Duíla F. de Mello
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Marcio A.G. Maia
Affiliation:
Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniel Schaerer
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Claus Leitherer
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

Abstract

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In order to study the influence of the environment in galaxies we have selected a sample from the catalog by Maia et al. (1994) which contains objects in low and high density areas of the Southern sky. These samples have been observed with the Brazilian-ESO 1.52m telescope and long-slit spectra are being analyzed. With our database we will be able to investigate the role of the environment in the galaxy population. We will be able to search for WR features and massive stars. It is our goal to compare the general properties of these galaxies with typical starburst galaxies which are dominated by episodes of massive star formation.

Type
Part 6. Starbursts in normal and active galaxies: their effects on the ISM and on chemical evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 739 - 740
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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