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3.1 Registered FUV and R-band images of Holmberg II . . . . . . . . 28
3.2 Registered FUV and R-band images of IC2574 . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.3 Registered FUV and R-band images of Sextans A . . . . . . . . . 30
3.4 The FUV growth curve of Holmberg II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.5 The FUV growth curve of IC2574 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.6 The FUV growth curve of Sextans A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.1 The FUV surface brightness pro le of Holmberg II . . . . . . . . . 35
4.2 The FUV surface brightness pro le of IC2574 . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.3 The FUV surface brightness pro le of Sextans A . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.4 FUV surface brightness pro les as a function of normalized radius 39
4.5 B-band surface brightness pro les as a function of radius . . . . . 41
4.6 Optical and FUV surface brightness pro les of Holmberg II . . . . 43
4.7 Relationship between mass of gas and star formation rate . . . . . 49
4.8 Relationship between average star formation rate and gas fraction 51
5.1 Registered FUV and H images of Holmberg II . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.2 Registered FUV and H images of IC2574 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.3 Registered FUV and H images of Sextans A . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.4 Holmberg II star formation regions on FUV, H di erence image
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5.5 IC2574 star formation regions on FUV, H di erence image . . . 68
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