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SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: A Spatially Resolved Analysis of NGC 604 featured image

SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: A Spatially Resolved Analysis of NGC 604

Observing giant H II regions at fine spatial scales uncovers detailed structures and reveals variations in ionization, abundance, and dynamical properties of ionized gas and the …

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Ray Garner
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Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities featured image

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

High-redshift observations from JWST indicate that optical strong line ratios do not carry the same constraining power as they do at low redshifts. Critically, this prevents a …

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Ionized gas in NGC 4258: Exploring the AGN - Star formation connection featured image

Ionized gas in NGC 4258: Exploring the AGN - Star formation connection

NGC 4258 is a prime target for studying feedback in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGNs) due to its proximity and comprehensive multi-wavelength coverage. Using new …

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Peculiar Stellar Ages of the Peculiar Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5474 featured image

Peculiar Stellar Ages of the Peculiar Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5474

Using deep, narrowband imaging of the nearby peculiar spiral galaxy NGC 5474, we present stellar age information across its disk and offset bulge. As shown in earlier work on M101, …

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When Is a Bulge Not a Bulge? Revealing the Satellite Nature of NGC 5474's Bulge featured image

When Is a Bulge Not a Bulge? Revealing the Satellite Nature of NGC 5474's Bulge

A satellite galaxy of the nearby spiral M101, NGC 5474 has a prominent bulge offset from the kinematic center of the underlying star-forming disk that has gained attention in …

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Ray Garner
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SIGNALS on the mixing of oxygen and nitrogen in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 featured image

SIGNALS on the mixing of oxygen and nitrogen in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946

As part of the SIGNALS survey, which comprises a sample of approximately 40 nearby galaxies observed with the Fourier transform spectrometer SITELLE, we present a study of metal …

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NGC 628 in SIGNALS: Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions featured image

NGC 628 in SIGNALS: Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions

The variations of oxygen abundance and ionization parameter in H II regions are usually thought to be the dominant factors that produced variations seen in observed emission line …

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Ray Garner
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Implications on star formation rate indicators from H II regions and diffuse ionized gas in the M101 Group featured image

Implications on star formation rate indicators from H II regions and diffuse ionized gas in the M101 Group

We examine the connection between diffuse ionized gas (DIG), H II regions, and field O and B stars in the nearby spiral M101 and its dwarf companion NGC 5474 using ultra-deep Hα …

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A Dynamic Galaxy: Stellar Age Patterns across the Disk of M101 featured image

A Dynamic Galaxy: Stellar Age Patterns across the Disk of M101

Using deep, narrowband imaging of the nearby spiral galaxy M101, we present stellar age information across the full extent of the disk of M101. Our narrowband filters measure …

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Ray Garner
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Spectroscopic Follow-up of Two Star-forming Objects in the M101 Field featured image

Spectroscopic Follow-up of Two Star-forming Objects in the M101 Field

We present the spectra of two faint star-forming objects originally identified in our deep narrowband survey of the M101 Group. One is an isolated H II region near the M101 Group …

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Ray Garner
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