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Table 3

Number and luminosity of GMCs and H II regions per galactic environment of the studied sample, for a MOP of 40%.

Galactic environment GMC H II regions CO luminosity Hα luminosity




# %(a) # %(a) %(b) %(b)
Nucleus and bars 113 10.1 115 10.2 17.6 19.7
Arms 605 53.4 610 53.4 60.2 54.7
Inter-arms and outer disk 414 36.5 417 36.4 22.3 25.6
All environments 1121 100.0 1142 100.0 100.0 100.0

Notes. (a) Proportion of the matched GMC-H II region pairs that are in a specific region with respect to the total number of pairs.(b) Proportion of the luminosity for the matched GMC-H II region pairs that are in a specific region with respect to the total luminosity of the matched GMG/H II regions.

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