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Intergalactic HII Regions Discovered in SINGG | | E.V. Ryan-Weber
; G.R. Meurer
; K.C. Freeman
; M.E. Putman
; R.L. Webster
; the SINGG team.
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20 Nov 2003 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | U. Melbourne, JHU, RSAA, ANU, CASA, U. Colorado | | Abstract: | A number of very small isolated HII regions have been discovered at projected distances up to 30 kpc from their nearest galaxy. These HII regions appear as tiny emission line objects in narrow band images obtained by the NOAO Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG). We present spectroscopic confirmation of four isolated HII regions in two systems, both systems have tidal HI features. The results are consistent with stars forming in interactive debris due to cloud-cloud collisions. The H-alpha luminosities of the isolated HII regions are equivalent to the ionizing flux of only a few O stars each. They are most likely ionized by stars formed in situ, and represent atypical star formation in the low density environment of the outer parts of galaxies. A small but finite intergalactic star formation rate will enrich and ionize the surrounding medium. In one system, NGC 1533, we calculate a star formation rate of 1.5e-3 msun/yr, resulting in a metal enrichment of ~1e-3 solar for the continuous formation of stars. Such systems may have been more common in the past and a similar enrichment level is measured for the `metallicity floor’ in damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0311465 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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