3D spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet HII galaxies

Abstract

Wolf-Rayet (WR) HII galaxies are local metal-poor star-forming galaxies, observed when the most massive stars are evolving from O stars to WR stars, making them template systems to study distant starbursts. We have been performing a program to investigate the interplay between massive stars and gas in WR HII galaxies using IFS. Here, we highlight some results from the first 3D spectroscopic study of Mrk 178, the closest metal-poor WR HII galaxy, focusing on the origin of the nebular HeII emission and the aperture effects on the detection of WR features.

arXiv commentKehrig et al. 2014, in IAU Symp.309, "Galaxies in 3D across the Universe", B.L.Ziegler, F.Combes, H.Dannerbauer, M.Verdugo, Eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), in press

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