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云层中的空隙?螺旋圆盘中消光测度的比较

Gaps in the cloud cover? Comparing extinction measures in spiral disks

B. W. Holwerda, M. Meyer, M. Regan, D. Calzetti, K. D. Gordon, J. D. Smith, D. Dale, C. W. Engelbracht, T. Jarrett, M. Thornley, C. Bot, B. Buckalew, R. C. Kenn… 展开作者

B. W. Holwerda, M. Meyer, M. Regan, D. Calzetti, K. D. Gordon, J. D. Smith, D. Dale, C. W. Engelbracht, T. Jarrett, M. Thornley, C. Bot, B. Buckalew, R. C. Kennicutt, R. A. Gonzalez

摘要:

星系中的尘埃可以通过远红外/亚毫米辐射,星光的光学或红外变红,或已知背景源的消光来映射。我们比较了两个尘埃消光测量一组15个部分在13个附近的星系,以确定规模的尘埃ISM负责磁盘不透明度:一个使用恒星变红和其他已知的背景源。在我们早期的论文中,我们提出了29个星系的消光测量,根据校准计数的遥远的背景物体,通过HST/WFPC 2图像中的前景磁盘确定。对于与斯皮策红外邻近星系巡天(SINGS)重叠的13个星系,我们现在将这些结果与从I-L彩色地图获得的结果进行比较。我们的目标是确定是否检测到遥远的星系表明在充满灰尘的ISM的差距,从而更好地了解盘灭绝的性质和几何形状。我们发现,遥远的星系主要是在低消光部分标记的彩色地图,表明它们的数量取决于云覆盖的{ \it斯皮策}-解决尘埃结构-主要是螺旋臂-和一个弥漫的,未解决的底层磁盘。我们注意到,我们的红外彩色图(E[I-L])严重低估了这些盘中的总体尘埃存在,因为它隐含地假设了在恒星分布前面存在尘埃屏。

英文摘要:

Dust in galaxies can be mapped by either the FIR/sub-mm emission, the optical or infrared reddening of starlight, or the extinction of a known background source. We compare two dust extinction measurements for a set of fifteen sections in thirteen nearby galaxies, to determine the scale of the dusty ISM responsible for disk opacity: one using stellar reddening and the other a known background source. In our earlier papers, we presented extinction measurements of 29 galaxies, based on calibrated counts of distant background objects identified though foreground disks in HST/WFPC2 images. For the 13 galaxies that overlap with the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), we now compare these results with those obtained from an I-L color map. Our goal is to determine whether or not a detected distant galaxy indicates a gap in the dusty ISM, and hence to better understand the nature and geometry of the disk extinction. We find that distant galaxies are predominantly in low-extinction sections marked by the color maps, indicating that their number depends both on the cloud cover of {\it Spitzer}-resolved dust structures --mostly the spiral arms--and a diffuse, unresolved underlying disk. We note that our infrared color map (E[I-L]) underestimates the overall dust presence in these disks severely, because it implicitly assumes the presence of a dust screen in front of the stellar distribution.

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