Starbursts and star clusters in the ultraviolet

GR Meurer, TM Heckman, C Leitherer, A Kinney… - arXiv preprint astro-ph …, 1995 - arxiv.org
GR Meurer, TM Heckman, C Leitherer, A Kinney, C Robert, DR Garnett
arXiv preprint astro-ph/9509038, 1995arxiv.org
Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet (UV) images of nine starburst galaxies reveal them to
be highly irregular, even after excluding compact sources (clusters and resolved stars). Most
(7/9) are found to have a similar intrinsic effective surface brightnesses, suggesting that a
negative feedback mechanism is setting an upper limit to the star formation rate per unit
area. All starbursts in our sample contain UV bright star clusters indicating that cluster
formation is an important mode of star formation in starbursts. On average about 20% of the …
Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet (UV) images of nine starburst galaxies reveal them to be highly irregular, even after excluding compact sources (clusters and resolved stars). Most (7/9) are found to have a similar intrinsic effective surface brightnesses, suggesting that a negative feedback mechanism is setting an upper limit to the star formation rate per unit area. All starbursts in our sample contain UV bright star clusters indicating that cluster formation is an important mode of star formation in starbursts. On average about 20% of the UV luminosity comes from these clusters. The brightest clusters, or super star clusters (SSC), are preferentially found at the very heart of starbursts. The size of the nearest SSCs are consistent with those of Galactic globular clusters. The luminosity function of SSCs is well represented by a power law with a slope alpha ~ -2. There is a strong correlation between the far infrared excess and the UV spectral slope. The correlation is well modeled by a geometry where much of their dust is in a foreground screen near to the starburst, but not by a geometry of well mixed stars and dust.
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