arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 0801.1700astro-ph
收藏

金属量对星暴星系中尘埃性质的影响

Metallicity Effects on Dust Properties in Starbursting Galaxies

C. W. Engelbracht, G. H. Rieke, K. D. Gordon, J. -D. T. Smith, M. W. Werner, J. Moustakas, C. N. A. Willmer, L. Vanzi

摘要:

我们目前的红外观测66星暴星系在广泛的氧丰度,测量金属量如何影响其尘埃性质。这些数据包括斯皮策太空望远镜的成像和光谱,并辅以地面近红外成像。我们证实了强相关性的芳香族排放与金属,在金属[12+log(O/H)]~8的阈值。这种行为的金属丰度和辐射硬度依赖性的大分散意味着它不是由于单一效应,而是由于某种组合。我们发现,大尘埃颗粒的远红外线色温增加对较低的金属丰度,在金属丰度为8达到峰值,然后翻转。我们计算尘埃质量,并将其与文献中的HI质量进行比较,以得出气体与尘埃的比率,该比率在太阳金属丰度和金属丰度为8之间增加了近3个数量级,低于该数量级则会被排除在外。因此,在中红外波长的芳香族发射的突然变化似乎反映在远红外特性,表明金属含量的变化影响了占主导地位的红外发射的尘埃颗粒大小的整个范围的组成。此外,我们发现,比值L(8微米)/L(TIR),校准高红移星系的24微米测量的重要性,略有增加的金属丰度从~太阳到~50%的太阳减少,然后减少了一个数量级的金属丰度进一步减少。虽然绝大多数星系都表现出类似的行为模式,但有三个例外,SBS 0335- 052 E,Haro 11和SHOC 391。它们的红外SED在能量上由24微米附近的中红外线主导,而不是由60 - 200微米区域主导。(节录)

英文摘要:

We present infrared observations of 66 starburst galaxies over a wide range of oxygen abundances, to measure how metallicity affects their dust properties. The data include imaging and spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope, supplemented by groundbased near-infrared imaging. We confirm a strong correlation of aromatic emission with metallicity, with a threshold at a metallicity [12+log(O/H)]~8. The large scatter in both the metallicity and radiation hardness dependence of this behavior implies that it is not due to a single effect, but to some combination. We show that the far-infrared color temperature of the large dust grains increases towards lower metallicity, peaking at a metallicity of 8 before turning over. We compute dust masses and compare them to HI masses from the literature to derive the gas to dust ratio, which increases by nearly 3 orders of magnitude between solar metallicity and a metallicity of 8, below which it flattens out. The abrupt change in aromatic emission at mid-infrared wavelengths thus appears to be reflected in the far-infrared properties, indicating that metallicity changes affect the composition of the full range of dust grain sizes that dominate the infrared emission. In addition, we find that the ratio L(8 micron)/L(TIR), important for calibrating 24 micron measurements of high redshift galaxies, increases slightly as the metallicity decreases from ~solar to ~50% of solar, and then decreases by an order of magnitude with further decreases in metallicity. Although the great majority of galaxies show similar patterns of behavior as described above, there are three exceptions, SBS 0335-052E, Haro 11, and SHOC 391. Their infrared SEDs are dominated energetically by the mid-IR near 24 micron rather than by the 60 - 200 micron region. (Abridged)

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑