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银河棒的大尺度尘埃带

The large scale dust lanes of the Galactic bar

D. J. Marshall, R. Fux, A. C. Robin, C. Reyle

摘要:

通过比较银河系中心区域尘埃和气体的分布,我们的目标是获得新的见解,在银河系中导致棒长轴的偏移尘埃带的性质。一方面,根据动力学模型的解释,从观测到的CO l-b-V分布中提取尘埃带的分子发射。另一方面,银河系中心区域的三维消光图是由近红外观测构建的,它被用作尘埃本身的示踪剂,并在其正面投影中清楚地揭示了尘埃带。在(l,b)平面中执行灰尘带的两个独立检测的位置的比较。这两个完全独立的方法被用来提供一个连贯的图片的尘埃带在银河系酒吧。在气体和尘埃分布中,尘埃带都被发现在银河平面之外,出现在负纬度l > 0度和正纬度l < 0度。然而,即使两个分量之间存在大量重叠,它们也彼此偏移,灰尘看起来更靠近b = 0度平面。提出了两种方案来解释观察到的偏移。第一种是由坝的冲击和下游的再形成造成的晶粒破坏。由于激波引起的速度降低,这发生在较低的z处。第二种假设是气体和尘埃保持在一个共同的倾斜平面上,但是分子气体从银河系的磁场中分离出来,而磁场本身的强度足以抵抗棒激波的剪切。扩散的气体和灰尘仍然与电场耦合,并被进一步带到下游。第二种情况最近被提出来解释对棒星系NGC 1097的观测。

英文摘要:

(abridged) By comparing the distribution of dust and gas in the central regions of the Galaxy, we aim to obtain new insights into the properties of the offset dust lanes leading the bar's major axis in the Milky Way. On the one hand, the molecular emission of the dust lanes is extracted from the observed CO l-b-V distribution according to the interpretation of a dynamical model. On the other hand, a three dimensional extinction map of the Galactic central region constructed from near-infrared observations is used as a tracer of the dust itself and clearly reveals dust lanes in its face-on projection. Comparison of the position of both independent detections of the dust lanes is performed in the (l, b) plane. These two completely independent methods are used to provide a coherent picture of the dust lanes in the Milky Way bar. In both the gas and dust distributions, the dust lanes are found to be out of the Galactic plane, appearing at negative latitudes for l > 0 deg and at positive latitudes for l < 0 deg. However, even though there is substantial overlap between the two components, they are offset from one another with the dust appearing to lie closer to the b = 0 deg plane. Two scenarios are proposed to explain the observed offset. The first involves grain destruction by the bar shock and reformation downstream. Due to the decrease in velocity caused by the shock, this occurs at lower z. The second assumes that the gas and dust remain on a common tilted plane, but that the molecular gas decouples from the Milky Way's magnetic field, itself strong enough to resist the shear of the bar's shock. The diffuse gas and dust remain coupled to the field and are carried further downstream. This second scenario has recently been suggested in order to explain observations of the barred galaxy NGC 1097.

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