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HCN和HCO +追踪的NGC253中稠密分子气体的新认识

New insights on the dense molecular gas in NGC253 as traced by HCN and HCO+

K. K. Knudsen, F. Walter, A. Weiss, A. Bolatto, D. A. Riechers, K. Menten

摘要:

利用Owens Valley射电天文台毫米波阵(OVRO)对星系NGC 253的环核星爆盘进行了HCN(1-0)、HCO+(1-0)和CO(1-0)跃迁的60 pc分辨率成像。我们还获得了阿塔卡马探路者实验(APEX)的HCN(4-3)和HCO+(4-3)线的星爆盘的观测。我们发现,从HCN(1-0)和HCO+(1-0)过渡,致密分子气体的指标,跟踪区域,这是不可区分的不确定性,我们的观察的排放。即使连续通量在星爆盘上的变化超过10倍,HCN/HCO+的比率在整个星爆盘上是恒定的,我们得出的平均比率为1.1+/-0.2。从激发分析,我们发现,所有的线从这两个分子的亚热激发,他们是光学厚。这种亚热激发意味着所观察到的HCN/HCO+线比是敏感的基础化学。因此,恒定的线比意味着在NGC 253的星爆盘上没有强烈的丰度梯度。这一发现也可以解释不同恒星形成星系之间的L '(HCN)/L'(HCO+)的变化,无论是在附近还是在高红移。

英文摘要:

We have imaged the central ~1kpc of the circumnuclear starburst disk in the galaxy NGC253 in the HCN(1-0), HCO+(1-0), and CO(1-0) transitions at 60pc resolution using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Millimeter-Wavelength Array (OVRO). We have also obtained Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) observations of the HCN(4-3) and the HCO+(4-3) lines of the starburst disk. We find that the emission from the HCN(1-0) and HCO+(1-0) transitions, both indicators of dense molecular gas, trace regions which are non-distinguishable within the uncertainties of our observations. Even though the continuum flux varies by more than a factor 10 across the starburst disk, the HCN/HCO+ ratio is constant throughout the disk, and we derive an average ratio of 1.1+/-0.2. From an excitation analysis we find that all lines from both molecules are subthermally excited and that they are optically thick. This subthermal excitation implies that the observed HCN/HCO+ line ratio is sensitive to the underlying chemistry. The constant line ratio thus implies that there are no strong abundance gradients across the starburst disk of NGC253. This finding may also explain the variations in L'(HCN)/L'(HCO+) between different star forming galaxies both nearby and at high redshifts.

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