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用斯皮策红外线阵列照相机(IRAC)测绘热分子氢

Mapping warm molecular hydrogen with Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)

David Neufeld, Yuan Yuan

摘要:

斯皮策的红外线阵列照相机(IRAC)获得的光度图可以提供一个有价值的探测星际介质中温暖的氢分子的方法。从斯皮策档案中提取的超新星遗迹IC 443的IRAC图与我们用斯皮策上的红外光谱仪(IRS)获得的H2纯旋转跃迁的谱线图惊人地相似。IRS光谱表明,IRAC带3和4确实分别由H 2 v=0-0 S(5)和S(7)跃迁主导。H2激发的模拟表明,带1和2由H2 v=1-0 O(5)和v=0-0 S(9)支配。使用IRAC获得的IC 433中H2发射的大型地图显示,能带比与单一温度下气体的存在不一致。IRAC带2,3,和4的相对强度是一致的,从冲击材料与气体温度的幂律分布的纯H2发射。CO的振动发射并没有显着的贡献,所观察到的频带2的强度。假设H2在温度T至T+dT时的柱密度与温度T的-b次方成正比(温度高达4000 K),我们得到b的典型估计值为4.5。幂律指数b表示在地图所探测的一组不同视线范围内的3到6的变化,大多数视线显示b在4到5的范围内。所观察到的幂律指数与抛物面弓形激波的简单模型的预测是一致的。

英文摘要:

Photometric maps, obtained with Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), can provide a valuable probe of warm molecular hydrogen within the interstellar medium. IRAC maps of the supernova remnant IC443, extracted from the Spitzer archive, are strikingly similar to spectral line maps of the H2 pure rotational transitions that we obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) instrument on Spitzer. IRS spectroscopy indicates that IRAC Bands 3 and 4 are indeed dominated by the H2 v=0-0 S(5) and S(7) transitions, respectively. Modeling of the H2 excitation suggests that Bands 1 and 2 are dominated by H2 v=1-0 O(5) and v=0-0 S(9). Large maps of the H2 emission in IC433, obtained with IRAC, show band ratios that are inconsistent with the presence of gas at a single temperature. The relative strengths of IRAC Bands 2, 3, and 4 are consistent with pure H2 emission from shocked material with a power-law distribution of gas temperatures. CO vibrational emissions do not contribute significantly to the observed Band 2 intensity. Assuming that the column density of H2 at temperatures T to T+dT is proportional to T raised to the power -b for temperatures up to 4000 K, we obtained a typical estimate of 4.5 for b. The power-law index, b, shows variations over the range 3 to 6 within the set of different sight-lines probed by the maps, with the majority of sight-lines showing b in the range 4 to 5. The observed power-law index is consistent with the predictions of simple models for paraboloidal bow shocks.

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