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Fuentes-Masip, O.; Muñoz-Tuñon, C.; Castañeda, H. O.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.
Bibliographical reference
The Seventh Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics: Flows, Blows and Glows (Eds. William H. Lee and Silvia Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 10, pp. 34-37 (2001)
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Description
We present the results of a kinematical study of the H II regions in the
central area of the giant irregular galaxy NGC 4449. A new method is
defined to determine the sizes of the regions. We obtained the
integrated parameters of the H II regions: radius, luminosity, radial
velocity and velocity dispersion. We define the size and luminosity vs.
velocity dispersion empirical correlations for the giant H II regions in
the galaxy, and show that the correlations only hold for nebulae with
surface brightness higher than 2×1035 erg s-1
pc-2 in H α and with a supersonic single line Gaussian
profile. The exponent of the fits are consistent with virial mechanisms.