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Inner and outer star forming regions over the discs of spiral galaxies I. Sample characterization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

Marina Rodríguez-Baras*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
A.I. Díaz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
F.F. Rosales-Ortega
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Luis E. Erro 1, 72840 Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico
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Abstract

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This project is aimed at understanding the dependence of star formation on the environment by analysing young stellar populations in two very different positions in disk galaxies: circumnuclear and outer disk giant regions. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) provide an ideal means to achieve these goals providing simultaneous spatial and spectral resolution. Here we present the characterization of the work sample, composed by 671 outer regions and 725 inner regions from 263 isolated spirals galaxies observed by the CALIFA survey. The wide number of regions in both samples allows us to obtain statistically relevant results about the influence of metallicity, density and environment on star formation, and how it disseminates over the galaxy, to obtain evolutionary stories for the star-forming regions and to compare our results with models of massive star formation and galactic chemical evolution.

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