2 papers
astro-ph1998
The Massive Nearby SBNGs: Young Galaxies in Formation
Roger Coziol, Thierry Contini, Emmanuel Davoust +1
We discuss the implications of the recent discovery that Starburst Nucleus Galaxies (SBNGs) have lower oxygen abundances than "normal galaxies" of the same morphological type. Our…
astro-ph1995
Starbursts in barred spiral galaxies. I. Mrk 712: a new Wolf-Rayet galaxy
Thierry Contini, Emmanuel Davoust, Suzanne Considere
We report the discovery of emission from Wolf-Rayet stars in a giant HII region 4.5 arcsec South of the nucleus of the IRAS barred spiral galaxy Mrk 712. The ratio of WNL to OV sta…