Deidre A. Hunter
Research Interests
- The LITTLE THINGS Survey
- Cloud and star formation processes in galaxies
- Interstellar medium of galaxies
- Structure of dwarf galaxies
- Tidal dwarfs
Other Activities
The color picture shown here is of Sextans A = DDO 75, a tiny irregular galaxy.
This combination of
UBV images was made by Howard Bond
for the cover of PASP
from images taken by D. Hunter at the 0.9 m at CTIO.
See 1997, PASP, 109, 937 for a review of star formation in irregulars.
Paper presenting the LITTLE THINGS Atomic Hydrogen data
Figures 13-90, showing the images
A Survey of Dwarf Galaxies
Over the past 15 years, we have conducted a multi-wavelength survey of a large sample of
galaxies without spiral arms for the purposes of understanding how tiny galaxies form
stars. The sample includes 94 dwarf irregular (dIm), 24 Blue Compact Dwarfs (BCD),
and 18 Sm galaxies.
The data are available:
UBVJHK images,
color maps (one filter image divided by
another);
and
surface brightness plots.
Halpha images are available via NED.
References for published datasets:
Halpha images (Hunter & Elmegreen 2004);
UBVJHK images (Hunter & Elmegreen 2006);
Spitzer IRAC images (Hunter, Elmegreen, & Martin 2006);
Spitzer IRS spectra (Hunter & Kaufman 2007, AJ, September);
individual HI studies (Hunter, Elmegreen, & van Woerden 2001;
Simpson, Hunter, & Knezek 2005;
Simpson, Hunter, & Nordgren 2005;
Kepley, Wilcots, Hunter, & Nordgren 2007).
We have put the UBV images together into
color pictures of a selected sub-sample of galaxies.
E-mail: dah at lowell dot edu
Last updated May 8, 2013