Bibcode
Mazzuca, L. M.; Swaters, R. A.; Veilleux, S.; Knapen, J. H.
Referencia bibliográfica
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.139
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6
2008
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Descripción
We present two-dimensional Hα velocity fields for ten well-defined
nuclear rings observed with the DensePak fiber-optic array on the KPNO
WIYN telescope. In this paper, we present detailed results for two of
those rings, in NGC 1530 and NGC 4314. We conclude that in general
regions of enhanced Hα, thus massive star formation, in the
nuclear rings correspond to regions with (1) high luminosities, of order
1040-1042 erg s-1, (2) low residual
velocities, after subtracting disk rotation, of order 10 km
s-1, and (3) low velocity dispersions in the range 20-50 km
s-1. In the rings, star formation takes place in regions
where the shear is small and the gas is cool enough to allow molecular
condensation. The lack of strong non-circular motions, coupled with a
direct relationship between the position angles and ellipticities of the
rings and those of their host galaxies, indicates that the rings are in
the same plane as the disk and are circular.