11/02/2004 Auditório Principal Bloco G IAG/USP
Dra. Grazyna Stasinska
LUTH Observatoire de Paris-Meudon/França
Título/Title:
What drives the Balmer extinction sequence in spiral
galaxies?
Clues from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Resumo/Abstract:
Using spectra of
normal emission line galaxies from the First Data Release of the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we have investigated the relations between the
extinction C(Hb) as derived from the
Ha/Hb emission line
ratio and various global parameters of the galaxies. Our main findings
are that: We also found that the optical properties of the luminous infrared galaxies in our SDSS sample are very similar to those of our entire sample of SDSS galaxies. This may be explained by the IRAS luminosity of the galaxies originating in the regions that formed massive stars less than 1 Myr ago, while the opacity of galaxies as derived from the Ha/Hb emission line ratio is due to diffuse dust. We show some implications of our empirical results on the determination of global star formation rates and total stellar masses in normal galaxies. |
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