Bibcode
López-Sánchez, A. R.; Esteban, C.
Bibliographical reference
The Eight Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics (Eds. M. Reyes-Ruiz & E. Vázquez-Semadeni) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 18, pp. 48-51 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2003
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2
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2
Description
Only less than 150 Wolf-Rayet galaxies are actually known. Many of them
are dwarf or irregular galaxies, and some show close companion objects.
Peculiar morphological features, like mergers or tidal tails connecting
small stellar aggregates, are found in many cases. Therefore, we think
that interaction could be an important mechanism that triggers star
formation in Wolf-Rayet galaxies, interestingly in dwarf ones. We have
used deep optical and near-infrared CCD imagery and intermediate
resolution optical spectroscopy to analyse some Wolf-Rayet galaxies and
surrounding objects in order to study their inter-relation. Some of the
conclusions about the morphology, kinematics, colors and the chemical
composition of the ionized gas of Haro 15 are shown. We have also
analysed the ages of the observed bursts making use of spectral
synthesis models.