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arxiv: 1509.06285 · v1 · pith:I4KCE2Y2new · submitted 2015-09-21 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

PopIII-star siblings in IZw18 and WRs in metal-poor galaxies unveiled from integral field spectroscopy

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Here we highlight our recent results from the IFS study of Mrk178, the closest metal-poor WR galaxy, and of IZw18, the most metal-poor star-forming galaxy known in the local Universe. The IFS data of Mrk178 show the importance of aperture effects on the search for WR features, and the extent to which physical variations in the ISM properties can be detected. Our IFS data of IZw18 reveal its entire nebular HeII4686-emitting region, and indicate for the first time that peculiar, very hot (nearly) metal-free ionizing stars (called here PopIII-star siblings) might hold the key to the HeII-ionization in IZw18.

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