Gravity Binding and Pressure Bounding of Hii regions and Molecular Clouds in Interacting Galaxies

Zaragoza-Cardiel, J.; Beckman, J.; Font, J.; Camps-Fariña, A.; Garcìa-Lorenzo, B.; Serrano-Borlaff, A.
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From Interstellar Clouds to Star-Forming Galaxies: Universal Processes?, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 315, article id. E84

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2016
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6
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5
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We have observed 3 pairs of interacting galaxies (the Antennae, Arp 236, and NGC 1614) using the Fabry-Perot interferometer GHαFaS (Galaxy Hα Fabry-Perot system) on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma. We have extracted the physical properties (sizes, Hα luminosity and velocity dispersion) of Hii regions. We have combined also these observations with ALMA archival observations of these interacting galaxies, finding that there is a set of brighter and denser star forming regions. We have been able to compare these properties with those of two SMGs at redshift ~ 2.