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巨大HII区的化学组成和混合:NGC3603,30 Doradus和N66

Chemical composition and mixing in giant HII regions: NGC3603, 30Doradus, and N66

V. Lebouteiller, J. Bernard-Salas, B. Brandl, D. G. Whelan, Y. Wu, V. Charmandaris, D. Devost, J. R. Houck

摘要:

我们研究了银河系中NGC 3603、大麦云云中剑鱼座30和小麦哲伦云中N66的化学丰度。使用斯皮策太空望远镜上的红外光谱仪进行中红外观测,使我们能够探测每个物体内不同物理区域的特性:中心电离团,周围的电离气体,光解区域和掩埋的星团。我们探测到[SIII]、[SIV]、[ArIII]、[NeII]、[NeIII]、[FeII]和[FeIII]谱线,并推导出离子丰度。基于离子丰度比(NeIII/H)/(SIII/H),我们发现在MIR中观察到的气体的特征在于比在光学光谱中观察到的气体具有更高的电离度。我们计算了Ne、S、Ar和Fe的元素丰度。我们发现,α元素Ne,S和Ar的规模与对方。我们的测定结果与从光学光谱中得到的丰度值吻合得很好。在三个巨大的HII区域,Ne/S比高于太阳值,并指向尘埃颗粒上硫的适度耗尽。我们发现,氖和硫的丰度显示一个非常小的分散(0.11dex在15个位置在30 Doradus),这表明一个相对均匀的ISM,即使不能排除小规模的混合。

英文摘要:

We investigate the chemical abundances of NGC3603 in the Milky Way, of 30Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and of N66 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Mid-infrared observations with the Infrared Spectrograph onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope allow us to probe the properties of distinct physical regions within each object: the central ionizing cluster, the surrounding ionized gas, photodissociation regions, and buried stellar clusters. We detect [SIII], [SIV], [ArIII], [NeII], [NeIII], [FeII], and [FeIII] lines and derive the ionic abundances. Based on the ionic abundance ratio (NeIII/H)/(SIII/H), we find that the gas observed in the MIR is characterized by a higher degree of ionization than the gas observed in the optical spectra. We compute the elemental abundances of Ne, S, Ar, and Fe. We find that the alpha-elements Ne, S, and Ar scale with each other. Our determinations agree well with the abundances derived from the optical. The Ne/S ratio is higher than the solar value in the three giant HII regions and points toward a moderate depletion of sulfur on dust grains. We find that the neon and sulfur abundances display a remarkably small dispersion (0.11dex in 15 positions in 30Doradus), suggesting a relatively homogeneous ISM, even though small-scale mixing cannot be ruled out.

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