Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 707, Issue 2, Pages 1676-1690Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1676
Keywords
galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: individual (Mrk 409); galaxies: starburst; galaxies: stellar content
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [AYA 2007 67965, HA2006-0032]
- Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Program [CSD2006-00070]
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We present an integral field spectroscopic study of the central 2 x 2 kpc(2) of the blue compact dwarf galaxy Mrk 409, observed with the Potsdam MultiAperture Spectrophotometer (PMAS). This study focuses on the morphology, two-dimensional chemical abundance pattern, excitation properties, and kinematics of the ionized interstellar medium in the starburst component. We also investigate the nature of the extended ring of ionized gas emission surrounding the bright nuclear starburst region of Mrk 409. PMAS spectra of selected regions along the ring, interpreted with evolutionary and population synthesis models, indicate that their ionized emission is mainly due to a young stellar population with a total mass of similar to 1.5 x 10(6) M-circle dot, which started forming almost coevally similar to 10 Myr ago. This stellar component is likely confined to the collisional interface of a spherically expanding, starburst-driven super-bubble with denser, swept-up ambient gas, similar to 600 pc away from the central starburst nucleus. The spectroscopic properties of the latter imply a large extinction (C-H beta > 0.9), and the presence of an additional non-thermal ionization source, most likely a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus. Mrk 409 shows a relatively large oxygen abundance (12 + log(O/H) similar to 8.4) and no chemical abundance gradients out to R similar to 600 pc. The ionized gas kinematics displays an overall regular rotation on a northwest-southeast axis, with a maximum velocity of 60 km s(-1); the total mass inside the star-forming ring is about 1.4 x 10(9) M-circle dot.
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