Bibcode
Beckman, J. E.; Camps-Fariña, A.; Zaragoza-Cardiel, J.; Font, J.
Bibliographical reference
IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2236585
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2015
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Description
We present a new method (BUBBLY) for detecting expanding components of
ionized gas using integral field spectroscopy, showing its capabilities
not only in detecting but also in obtaining the key physical parameters
of the detected expanding shells, notably their expansion velocities and
their masses. The main advantages of this method are that the detection
is performed automatically via software and that we can use it to obtain
nearly all the parameters of the shells, which makes it suitable for
detailed studies of feedback in nearby galaxies. The software can be
easily configured to run on any data cube mapping an emission line over
a spatial field.We also present a variety of results obtained by running
BUBBLY on observations of Ha emission with the Fabry-Perot spectrograph
GHaFaS, focusing on two sets of particularly spectacular results at
widely different spatial scales: the Antennae galaxies show the presence
of multiple giant bubbles of size ~300pc around the brightest clusters,
while inside a region in M33 we find three nested supernova remnants,
which we can use to study the effects of feedback on the molecular gas
surrounding the cluster.