@inproceedings{083e47094adf41f89e79d2106cc8e36e,
title = "A SINFONI view of circum-nuclear star-forming rings in spiral galaxies",
abstract = "We present near-infrared (H- and K-band) SINFONI integral-field observations of the circumnuclear star formation rings in five nearby spiral galaxies. We made use of the relative intensities of different emission lines (i.e. [FeII], HeI, Br) to age date the stellar clusters present along the rings. This qualitative, yet robust, method allows us to discriminate between two distinct scenarios that describe how star formation progresses along the rings. Our findings favour a model where star formation is triggered predominantly at the intersection between the bar major axis and the inner Lindblad resonance and then passively evolves as the clusters rotate around the ring (Pearls on a string scenario), although models of stochastically distributed star formation (Popcorn model) cannot be completely ruled out.",
keywords = "Galaxies: individual (NGC 613, NGC 1079, NGC 1300, NGC 5248, IC 1438), Galaxies: nuclei, Galaxies: spiral, Galaxies: star clusters, Galaxies: starburst, Galaxies: stellar content",
author = "Jes{\'u}s Falc{\'o}n-Barroso and Torsten B{\"o}ker and Eva Schinnerer and Knapen, {Johan H.} and Stuart Ryder",
year = "2007",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1017/S1743921308017584",
language = "English",
series = "IAU symposium proceedings series",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "245",
pages = "177--180",
editor = "Martin Bureau and E. Athanassoula and Beatriz Barbuy",
booktitle = "Formation and evolution of galaxy bulges",
note = "245th symposium of the International Astronomical Union ; Conference date: 16-07-2007 Through 20-07-2007",
}