Bibcode
Rozas, M.; Knapen, J. H.; Beckman, J. E.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.312, p.275-282
Fecha de publicación:
8
1996
Revista
Número de citas
35
Número de citas referidas
30
Descripción
We describe statistical properties of complete samples of HII regions in
the grand-design spiral galaxies NGC 157, NGC 3631, NGC 6764 and NGC
6951. We use the catalogues of HII regions obtained from high-quality
Hα line images by Rozas et al. . Slopes and zero points of
diameter distribution functions for these four galaxies coincide well
with values published for other galaxies of similar morphological type.
We also present density distributions and Hα scale lengths, as
well as luminosity-volume and number-luminosity-size relations. The
latter relations show evidence for the presence of a population of high
luminosity density-bounded HII regions in the spiral arms. We see the
change from ionization- to density-bounded HII regions occur clearly at
a specific HII region flux level.