Bibcode
Munoz-Tunon, C.; Vilchez, J. M.; Castaneda, H. O.; 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. 157, no. 1-2, July 1989, p. 165-171.
Fecha de publicación:
7
1989
Número de citas
8
Número de citas referidas
8
Descripción
The use of long-slit spectroscopy at high spectral and spatial
resolution has made it possible to measure gradients of gaseous
excitation and also velocity fields in a sample of four bright nuclear
starburst galaxies selected from the sample of Balzano (1983).
Variations are found not only in the intensity but also in the quality
of the emission spectra (line ratios and line widths) of the
interstellar gas between regions separated by relatively short
distances. The need is stressed for studies with at least the present
degree of angular and spectral resolution if physical sense is to be
made of the interstellar excitation regimes in external galaxies, as
well as to investigate a possible evolutionary link between nuclei of
intermediate activity.