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LIST OF FIGURES
3.12 Example of the DAR correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.13 Two regions of the blue spectrum together with the spectral fits and maps of
residuals in the continuum fit for two sets of metallicity templates . . . . . . . 65
3.14 Upper panel: Hα flux map obtained from the IFU data. Lower panel: Hα image
taken at the KPNO 2.1-meter telescope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
3.15 Maps in the continuum near Hα and Hβ with isocontours of the corresponding
emission line fluxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.16 Map in the continuum near 8500 Å with isocontours of Hα . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.17 c(Hβ) map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.18 Electron density map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.19 Diagnostic diagrams derived from different line ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.20 Hα and excitation maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.21 Wolf-Rayet bumps of the integrated spectrum of knot A . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.22 Wolf-Rayet spatial distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
3.23 Blue and red spectra for the knots A and B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3.24 Blue and red spectra for the knots C and D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.25 Blue and red spectra for the whole PPak-field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
3.26 Relation between intensity and equivalent width of the WR blue bump as a
function of the age of the cluster for solar metallicity according to Starburst
99 predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
3.27 BPT diagrams including the values of the integrated spectra . . . . . . . . . . 101
3.28 S 23 map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
3.29 Point-to-point variations of [Nii]/[Sii] and S 23 versus the excitation . . . . . . 103
4.1 False colour image of J1657 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
4.2 Spatial profile of J1657 along the slit for Hα and the adjacent continuum . . . 110
4.3 Left Panel: Spatial profile of IIZw71 along the slit for Hα and the adjacent
continuum. Right Panel: Hα image with the identification of the knots, R-band
contours and the position of the slit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4.4 Blue and red spectra up to 7200 Å for the knots A and B of IIZw71. . . . . . . 113
4.5 Blue and red spectra up to 7200 Å for the knots C and D of IIZw71. . . . . . 114
4.6 Blue and red spectra up to 9600 Å for the knots A and B of J1657. . . . . . . 115
4.7 Blue and red spectra up to 9600 Å for the knot C of J1657. . . . . . . . . . . 116
4.8 Deblending of the [Oii] λλ 3727, 3729 Å lines for IIZw71 . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
4.9 Results of the STARLIGHT fit for knot C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
4.10 Constant of reddening for the knots of IIZw71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
4.11 Detail of the rest-frame spectra of the knots B and C of IIZw71 around the
[Oiii] 4363 Å emission line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
4.12 Relation between t e ([Oii]) and t e ([Oiii]) for the knots of J1657 and Hii galaxies
from the literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.13 Relation between t e ([Sii]) and t e ([Oii]) for the knots of J1657 and Hii galaxies
from the literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.14 Relation between t e ([Siii]) and t e ([Oiii]) for the knots of J1657 and Hii galaxies
from the literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
4.15 N/O and S/O ratio as a function of 12+log(O/H) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
4.16 Ne/O and Ar/O ratio as a function of 12+log(O/H) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138