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通过远红外和射电形态学的比较研究银河系的近期恒星形成历史:恒星形成后的Cosmic-Ray电子扩散

Learning about the Recent Star Formation History of Galaxy Disks by Comparing their Far-Infrared and Radio Morphologies: Cosmic-Ray Electron Diffusion after Star Formation Episodes

E. J. Murphy, G. Helou, J. D. P. Kenney, L. Armus, R. Braun

摘要:

我们提出的星际介质(ISM)的基础上比较的{ \it斯皮策}远红外和韦斯特博克综合射电望远镜射电连续图像的29个星系的属性的结果。在这29个星系中,有18个足够近,可以在70 $\micron$和22厘米的$\la$ 1千秒差距尺度上分辨。我们扩展的\citet{ejm06a,ejm06b}方法平滑红外图像近似宇宙射线(CR)的电子扩散,从而在很大程度上再现了无线电图像的外观。使用小波分析,我们分解每个70 $\micron$图像成一个组件包含恒星形成{ \it结构}和第二个弥漫{ \it磁盘}。分别平滑的组件,和他们的组合相比,免费免费校正22厘米的无线电图像,然后改变尺度长度,以最好地匹配无线电和平滑的红外图像。我们发现,晚型螺旋有大量的正在进行的恒星形成受益最多的两个组件的方法。我们还发现,磁盘组件占主导地位的星系具有低恒星形成活动,而结构组件占主导地位,在高恒星形成活动。我们建议,这一结果产生的年龄效应,而不是从CR电子扩散的差异,由于不同的ISM参数。大部分的CR电子人口在活跃的恒星形成星系是显着年轻的,比在不太活跃的星系,由于最近的事件增强的恒星形成,这些星系内观察到$\sim10^{8}$年,因为最近的恒星形成事件的开始。样品的不规则有令人不安的低最佳拟合尺度长度为他们的表面亮度相比,其余的样品螺旋,我们归因于增强CR电子逃逸。

英文摘要:

We present results on the interstellar medium (ISM) properties of 29 galaxies based on a comparison of {\it Spitzer} far-infrared and Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope radio continuum imagery. Of these 29 galaxies, 18 are close enough to resolve at $\la$1 kpc scales at 70 $\micron$ and 22 cm. We extend the \citet{ejm06a,ejm06b} approach of smoothing infrared images to approximate cosmic-ray (CR) electron spreading and thus largely reproduce the appearance of radio images. Using a wavelet analysis we decompose each 70 $\micron$ image into one component containing the star-forming {\it structures} and a second one for the diffuse {\it disk}. The components are smoothed separately, and their combination compared to a free-free corrected 22 cm radio image; the scale-lengths are then varied to best match the radio and smoothed infrared images. We find that late-type spirals having high amounts of ongoing star formation benefit most from the two-component method. We also find that the disk component dominates for galaxies having low star formation activity, whereas the structure component dominates at high star formation activity. We propose that this result arises from an age effect rather than from differences in CR electron diffusion due to varying ISM parameters. The bulk of the CR electron population in actively star-forming galaxies is significantly younger than that in less active galaxies due to recent episodes of enhanced star formation; these galaxies are observed within $\sim10^{8}$ yr since the onset of the most recent star formation episode. The sample irregulars have anomalously low best-fit scale-lengths for their surface brightnesses compared to the rest of the sample spirals which we attribute to enhanced CR electron escape.

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