Abstract
AbstractThere are two principal problems in explaining, in terms of the emission from OB stars, the ionisation of gas which emits diffuse Hα in spiral galaxies. One is the long pathlength which the ionising photons need to traverse to reach their objectives, the other is whether sufficient photons can escape from within the H II regions which surround the hot stars. Here we treat the second point, assuming that the H II regions above a certain threshold luminosity are density bounded. We calculate the escaping Lyman continuum (Lyc) fluxes from the density bounded regions in four galaxies, and show that in each of them this is easily suffcient to produce the measured diffuse Hα emission.
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