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Varela, A. M.; Beckman, J. E.; Munoz-Tunon, C.; Cepa, J.; Vilchez, J. M.
Bibliographical reference
IN: ESO/CTIO Workshop on Bulges of Galaxies, La Serena, Chile, Jan. 16-19, 1990, Proceedings (A92-18101 05-90). Garching, Federal Republic of Germany, European Southern Observatory, 1990, p. 309-313.
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Description
The Sb galaxy NGC 4736 has a well observed ring of bright HII regions
just outside its bulge, at some 1.3 kpc from the nucleus, with an
apparent expansion velocity of about 30 km/s. Dynamical evidence is
produced to show that this outflow originated in a starburst in the
bulge which occurred some 3 x 10 exp 7 years ago. Corroborative evidence
for the presence of star-forming activity in the bulge at that time is
shown from color maps in B-V and R-I, which reveal excesses, in a series
of concentric segments centered on the nucleus, expected from the
coherent star-forming processes characteristic of a starburst, well
defined in space and time.