Bibcode
Rozas, M.; Sabalisck, N.; Beckman, J. E.; Knapen, J. H.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.338, p.15-26 (1998)
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1998
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29
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23
Description
We present TAURUS Fabry-Perot velocity data in Hα emission of the
disc of the grand design spiral M 100 (NGC 4321). We have studied the
emission spectra of the 200 H ii regions most luminous in Hα,
calibrated in luminosity using photometric Hα imaging from the
literature. The emission spectra of individual H ii regions were fitted
using one or more Gaussian functions, and analyzed in terms of their
velocity dispersion. We concentrate on the question of whether the
emission lines show values of their internal velocity dispersions of H
ii regions which would be predicted from the virial theorem, and find
that in general this is not the case. There is a systematic trend to
super-virial line widths, characteristic of the non-equilibrium effects
of powerful OB stellar winds, and supernovae. We propose that the lower
envelope in velocity dispersion sigma , in the plot of Hα
luminosity v. sigma represents the virialized regions, and give a
tentative theoretical explanation for its slope of 2.6 in the log-log
plane, in terms of density bounding for the regions of highest
luminosity.