An integral field study of abundance gradients in nearby luminous infrared galaxies

Date

2012

Authors

Rich, Jeff
Torrey, Paul
Kewley, Lisa
Dopita, Michael
Rupke, D

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present for the first time metallicity maps generated using data from the Wide Field Spectrograph on the ANU 2.3m of 10 luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) and discuss the abundance gradients and distribution of metals in these systems. We have carried

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Keywords

Keywords: Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: interactions; Infrared: galaxies

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Source

Astrophysical Journal, The

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Journal article

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Open Access

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