Table · dataset · 1997
Observations of H II Regions in M81
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
Images of the type Sab spiral galaxy M81 were obtained in far-UV and near-UV bands by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) during the Astro-1 Spacelab mission of 1990 December.
Description
Magnitudes in the two UV bands are determined for 52 H II regions from the catalog of Petit, Sivan, & Karachentsev (1988A&AS...74..475P). Fluxes of the H-alpha and H-beta emission lines are determined from CCD images.
Extinctions for the brightest H II regions are determined from observed Balmer decrements. Fainter H II regions are assigned the average of published radio-H-alpha extinctions for several bright H II regions. The radiative transfer models of Witt, Thronson, & Capuano (1992, ApJ, 393, 611) are shown to predict a relationship between Balmer Decrement and H-alpha extinction consistent with observed line and radio fluxes for the brightest 7 H II regions and are used to estimate the UV extinction.
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Ratios of Lyman continuum flux (computed from the extinction corrected H-alpha flux) to the extinction corrected far-UV flux are compared with ratios predicted by model spectra computed for IMF slope equal to -1.0 and stellar masses ranging from 5 to 120 Msun. Ages and masses are estimated by comparing the H-alpha and far-UV fluxes and their ratio with the models. The total of the estimated stellar masses for the 52 H II regions is 1.4x10^5^ Msun.
The star-formation rate inferred for M81 from the observed UV and H-alpha fluxes is low for a spiral galaxy at ~0.13 Msun/yr, but consistent with the low star-formation rates obtained by Kennicutt (1983ApJ...272...54K) and Caldwell et al. (1991ApJ...370..526C) for early-type spirals.
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/438/181 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 1995ApJ...438..181H ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...438..181H ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/438/181 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Uv
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 70% · Image 65% · Imaging 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/438/181 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (70%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:uv | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |