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NGC 6946中心千秒差距的稠密气体

The Dense Gas in the Central Kiloparsec of NGC 6946

E. S. Levine, Tamara T. Helfer, R. Meijerink, Leo Blitz

摘要:

利用BIMA和CARMA干涉仪观测了邻近旋涡星系NGC 6946中心的HCN和HCO+ J=1-0跃迁。利用BIMA SONG CO图,我们研究了IHCN/ICO和IHCO/ICO积分强度比随星系中心千秒差距半径的变化,发现它们在星系中心有很强的集中.我们利用2 MASS K_S波段的图像来计算恒星的表面密度,然后构造一张流体静力学中面压力图。我们将PDR模型应用于观测到的I_HCN/I_HCO+积分强度比,以计算稠密气体示踪剂发射区中分子氢的数密度,发现在我们的地图上,它大致恒定在10^5 cm^-3。我们探讨了两个假设的稠密气体的分布。如果HCN和HCO+排放来自密度较低的气体分布内部的自重力密度峰,则在致密气体的内部速度分散和密度峰的大小之间存在线性比例。或者,HCN和HCO+的排放可能来自均匀分布在整个中心并受环境压力约束的致密气体,类似于朝向银河系中心观察到的情况。我们发现这两种假设都是合理的。拟合了I_HCN、I_HCO+和I_CO之间的关系,证明了静液中面压力与I_HCN和I_HCO+之间的关系,并给出了幂律拟合。我们证实了Blitz和Rosolowsky(2006)在高流体静力学中平面压力区(10^6-10^8 cm^-3 K)中发现的压力与气体分子原子比之间的关系式的有效性。

英文摘要:

We present observations of the HCN and HCO+ J=1-0 transitions in the center of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946 made with the BIMA and CARMA interferometers. Using the BIMA SONG CO map, we investigate the change in the I_HCN/I_CO and I_ HCO/I_CO integrated intensity ratios as a function of radius in the central kiloparsec of the galaxy, and find that they are strongly concentrated at the center. We use the 2MASS K_S band image to find the stellar surface density, and then construct a map of the hydrostatic midplane pressure. We apply a PDR model to the observed I_HCN/I_HCO+ integrated intensity ratio to calculate the number density of molecular hydrogen in the dense gas tracer emitting region, and find that it is roughly constant at 10^5 cm^-3 across our map. We explore two hypotheses for the distribution of the dense gas. If the HCN and HCO+ emission comes from self-gravitating density peaks inside of a less dense gas distribution, there is a linear proportionality between the internal velocity dispersion of the dense gas and the size of the density peak. Alternatively, the HCN and HCO+ emission could come from dense gas homogeneously distributed throughout the center and bound by ambient pressure, similar to what is observed toward the center of the Milky Way. We find both of these hypotheses to be plausible. We fit the relationships between I_HCN, I_HCO+, and I_CO. Correlations between the hydrostatic midplane pressure and I_HCN and I_HCO+ are demonstrated, and power law fits are provided. We confirm the validity of a relation found by Blitz & Rosolowsky (2006) between pressure and the molecular to atomic gas ratio in the high hydrostatic midplane pressure regime (10^6-10^8 cm^-3 K).

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