arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0804.4491astro-ph
收藏

银心ISM和扩展源的中红外色

The Mid-Infrared Colors of the ISM and Extended Sources at the Galactic Center

R. G. Arendt, S. R. Stolovy, S. V. Ramírez, K. Sellgren, A. S. Cotera, C. J. Law, F. Yusef-Zadeh, H. A. Smith, D. Y. Gezari

摘要:

用斯皮策空间望远镜上的IRAC仪器对银河系中心进行了中红外(3.6-8微米)测量。这项调查涵盖了银河系的中心2x1.4度(~ 280 x200 pc)。在3.6和4.5微米的发射主要是恒星源,较暗的合并到一个未解决的背景。在5.8和8微米的恒星源是暗淡的,和大规模的漫发射从ISM的银河系的中央分子区变得突出。调查显示,ISM发射的8至5.8 um颜色在整个调查区域高度均匀。这种均匀的颜色与多环芳烃(PAHs)的平坦消光定律和排放一致。模型表明,如果加热尘埃和多环芳烃的入射辐射场小于太阳附近辐射场的10^4倍,那么这种宽带颜色不应该发生变化。少数几个有异常红色辐射的地区是多环芳烃含量不足的地区,当地的辐射场足够强,可以加热大的尘埃颗粒,产生明显的8微米辐射。这些红色区域包括紧凑的H II区域,Sgr B1,以及拱门和五重星系团周围更广泛的区域。在这些区域,辐射场是太阳附近的10^4倍以上。其他区域的红色辐射表明,厚厚的尘埃云掩盖了深埋的物体或恒星形成的早期阶段。

英文摘要:

A mid-infrared (3.6-8 um) survey of the Galactic Center has been carried out with the IRAC instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope. This survey covers the central 2x1.4 degree (~280x200 pc) of the Galaxy. At 3.6 and 4.5 um the emission is dominated by stellar sources, the fainter ones merging into an unresolved background. At 5.8 and 8 um the stellar sources are fainter, and large-scale diffuse emission from the ISM of the Galaxy's central molecular zone becomes prominent. The survey reveals that the 8 to 5.8 um color of the ISM emission is highly uniform across the surveyed region. This uniform color is consistent with a flat extinction law and emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Models indicate that this broadband color should not be expected to change if the incident radiation field heating the dust and PAHs is <10^4 times that of the solar neighborhood. The few regions with unusually red emission are areas where the PAHs are underabundant and the radiation field is locally strong enough to heat large dust grains to produce significant 8 um emission. These red regions include compact H II regions, Sgr B1, and wider regions around the Arches and Quintuplet Clusters. In these regions the radiation field is >10^4 times that of the solar neighborhood. Other regions of very red emission indicate cases where thick dust clouds obscure deeply embedded objects or very early stages of star formation.

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。

↑