Bibcode
DOI
Munoz-Tunon, C.; Gavryusev, Vladimir; Castoneda, H. O.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomical Journal v.110, p.1630
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10
1995
Citations
18
Refereed citations
14
Description
Bidimensional spectroscopy with good spatial and spectral resolution,
sampling a particular emission line over the whole emitting area, is
shown here to be the most suitable observational technique for
understanding the kinematics of giant extragalactic H II regions
(GEHRs). The TAURUS II Fabry-Perot spectrograph is an excellent
instrument for this purpose, providing simultaneous sampling, at seeing
limited resolution, of the whole nebula. The data analysis, however,
given the large number of spectra provided in each run could be a huge
task. The practical difficulty in handling 3D data sets led us to
develop a specific software with this purpose. Some of the facilities
provided by MATADOR are specifically described in this paper together
with other capabilities that should become evident from the data
analysis presented for a few examples. There are regions, like NGC 5471
in M101, which display Gaussian profiles with roughly constant emission
linewidth over the whole region. Other GEHRs, such as NGC 604, display
split and asymmetric lines emanating from shells, loops, and filaments
most likely produced by the mechanical action of massive stars. One also
finds in NGC 604 that the bulk of the emission comes from smaller but
much brighter areas where line profiles are well fitted by Gaussian
profiles. MATADOR can evaluate and compare the emission according to
line quality. In this way we have found the kinematic core, the area
displaying "well- behaved" Gaussian emission with a constant velocity
width, in NGC 5471, NGC 5461, and NGC 604. We conclude that, at least
for these three regions it is valid to assign a single value of emission
linewidth (a) and size, the kinematic core (Rkc) as representative of
the whole region.