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The starburst galaxy IC 10

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Paul W. Hodge  and
Daniel B. Zucker
Paul W. Hodge
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1580, USA
Daniel B. Zucker
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1580, USA

Abstract

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The heavily-reddened Local Group galaxy IC 10 has been studied at narrow-band emission-line wavelengths and in U, B, V, and I with the APO 3.5m telescope. The four-color data are being used to measure and map the foreground and internal reddening. The color-magnitude diagram clearly isolates the main sequence from the red supergiants and from the abundant foreground stars. The absolute magnitudes of the main sequence stars, together with the anomalously-abundant WR stars reported by Massey & Armandroff, indicate that the galaxy is currently undergoing a fairly extensive burst of star-formation.

Type
Part 4. Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars in the Galactic Center and in Local Group giant H II regions (individual stars)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 482 - 483
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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