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Star formation history in the central region of the barred galaxy NGC 4245

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We have investigated the gas and stellar kinematics and the stellar population properties at the center of the early-type galaxy NGC 4245 with a large-scale bar by the method of two-dimensional spectroscopy. The galaxy has been found to possess a pronounced chemically decoupled compact stellar nucleus, which is at least a factor of 2.5 richer in metals than the stellar population of the bulge, and a ring of young stars with a radius of 300 pc. Star formation goes on in the ring even now; its location corresponds to the inner Lindblad resonance of the large-scale bar. According to Hubble Space Telescope data, the mean stellar age in the chemically decoupled nucleus is significantly younger than that within 0″.25 of the center. It may be concluded that we take the former ultracompact star formation ring with a radius of no more than 100 pc located at the inner Lindblad resonance of the now disappeared nuclear bar as the chemically decoupled nucleus. On the whole, the picture of star formation at the center of this gas-poor galaxy is consistent with theoretical predictions of the consequences of the secular evolution of a stellar-gaseous disk under the action of a bar or bars.

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  1. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    O. K. Sil’chenko & I. V. Chilingarian

  2. Laboratoire d’Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 61 Av. de l’Observatoire, Paris, 75014, France

    I. V. Chilingarian

  3. Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, 369167, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, Russia

    V. L. Afanasiev

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Original Russian Text © O.K. Sil’chenko, I.V. Chilingarian, V.L. Afanasiev, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 87–99.

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Sil’chenko, O.K., Chilingarian, I.V. & Afanasiev, V.L. Star formation history in the central region of the barred galaxy NGC 4245. Astron. Lett. 35, 75–86 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773709020029

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