TY - CHAP AU - Gil De Paz, Armando AU - Díaz Lopez, Cristina AU - Zamorano Calvo, Jaime AU - Gallego Maestro, Jesús AU - Muñoz Mateos, Juan Carlos AU - Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo A4 - Funes, José G. A4 - Corsini, Enrico Maria PY - 2008 SN - 978-1-58381-662-2 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53473 AB - We summarize the main properties of the extended UV (XUV) emission found in roughly 30% of the nearby spiral galaxies observed by the GALEX satellite. Two different classes of XUV disks are identified, the Type 1 XUV disks where significant,... LA - eng M2 - 197 PB - Astronomical Society of the Pacific KW - Spiral galaxies KW - Star-formation KW - Ultraviolet disk KW - Evolution KW - Spectroscopy KW - Abundances KW - NGC-4625 KW - M83 TI - Extended UV (XUV) Emission in Nearby Galaxy Disks TY - book part VL - 396 ER -