Bibcode
Knapen, J. H.; Stedman, S.
Bibliographical reference
Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Peturbations, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 275. Edited by E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, and R. Mujica. ISBN: 1-58381-117-6. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002, pp. 319-322
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2002
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Description
We describe the progress of a large optical and near-infrared imaging
study of a complete sample of 57 spiral galaxies. We have obtained B, I,
K' and Hα imaging to map stellar populations and massive star
formation (SF) across the arm and interarm regions, in order to study
the distribution of mass and SF in these different and distinct
environments. We briefly describe the background to our program, the
sample selection, observations, and the reduction procedures. We present
a K' image and preliminary radial profiles of the SABcd (SXT6) galaxy
NGC 1042. SF appears to induce differences between the arm and interarm
profiles, and to enlarge the scale length of the exponential disk of the
galaxy.