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تسجيل مستخدم جديدSpatial regularity of the young stellar population in the ring of NGC 6217
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The relative contribution of various physical processes to the spatial and temporal distribution of molecular clouds and star-forming regions in the disks of galaxies has not been fully studied. The spatial regularity in the distribution of the young stellar population in spiral and ring structures is a good test to study this contribution. We investigate photometric properties of the ring and spiral arms in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 based on analysis of GALEX ultraviolet, optical UBVRI and Halpha surface photometry data. The ring in the galaxy is located near the corotation area. A spatial regularity in the distribution of the young stellar population along the galaxy ring was found. The characteristic scale of spacing is about 700 pc. At the same time, we did not find a similar regularity in the distribution of the young stellar population along the spiral arms of NGC 6217. The spatial regularity in concentration of young stellar groupings along spiral arms is a quite rare phenomenon, and it has never been found before in galactic rings.
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