Differential efficiency of massive star formation in NGC 628

Bibcode
1989Ap&SS.156..289C
DOI
10.1007/BF00646380
Cepa, J.; Beckman, J. E.
Referencia bibliográfica

(Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Summer School on Evolutionary Phenomena in Galaxies, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, July 4-15, 1988) Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 156, no. 1-2, June 1989, p. 289-293.

Fecha de publicación:
6
1989
Número de autores
2
Número de autores del IAC
0
Número de citas
5
Número de citas referidas
4
Descripción
The efficiency ratio of massive star formation in the arms of the spiral NGC 628 to that in the interarm region has been determined from the sizes and positions of its H II regions following the method described in Cepa and Beckman (1989). The variation of this relative star formation efficiency with radius shows a very similar behaviour for each of the three arms of this galaxy, with a minimum at 100 arc sec from the center, which can be identified with the corotation radius assuming a pattern speed of 56 km/s kpc. The results support the hypothesis that the spiral arms of NGC 628 are driven by a density wave which triggers the star formation according to the spiral density wave theory.
Tipo
Sin árbitro
Regiones H II
Galaxias espirales
Formación estelar

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