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银河系弥漫气体成像:明亮、湍流的CO围绕着NRAO150的视线

Imaging galactic diffuse gas: Bright, turbulent CO surrounding the line of sight to NRAO150

Jérôme Pety, Robert Lucas, Harvey S. Liszt

摘要:

为了了解其分子吸收线化学的宿主星系气体的环境和扩展结构,我们先前沿着显微视线观察到耀变体/射电连续谱源NRAO 150(又名B 0355 +508),我们使用IRAM 30米望远镜和Plateau de Bure干涉仪拍摄了两组宿主气体的图像:i)在220 arcsec × 220 arcsec的视场上,12 CO J=1-0和2-1发射的22.5 arcsec分辨率单碟图; ii)在90 arcsec直径区域上,12 CO J=1-0发射的5.8 arcsec分辨率的混合(干涉仪+单碟)孔径合成镶嵌图。在中等光学深度(0.5)处的吸收中观察到的并且在朝向NRAO 150的1弧分分辨率下的发射中未检测到的CO组分在6弧秒分辨率下保持未检测到。这意味着,他们不是一个以前隐藏的大规模分子组分中发现的吸收,但他们确实突出了稳健性的化学区域的密度和柱密度太低,产生太多的旋转激发,即使在CO。明亮的CO线周围NRAO 150最有可能反映的变化的化学过程,即C+-CO转换。然而,在如此有限的视野中,这种化学过程变化的最终原因仍然不确定。

英文摘要:

To understand the environment and extended structure of the host galactic gas whose molecular absorption line chemistry, we previously observed along the microscopic line of sight to the blazar/radiocontinuum source NRAO150 (aka B0355+508), we used the IRAM 30m Telescope and Plateau de Bure Interferometer to make two series of images of the host gas: i) 22.5 arcsec resolution single-dish maps of 12CO J=1-0 and 2-1 emission over a 220 arcsec by 220 arcsec field; ii) a hybrid (interferometer+singledish) aperture synthesis mosaic of 12CO J=1-0 emission at 5.8 arcsec resolution over a 90 arcsec-diameter region. CO components that are observed in absorption at a moderate optical depth (0.5) and are undetected in emission at 1 arcmin resolution toward NRAO 150 remain undetected at 6 arcsec resolution. This implies that they are not a previously-hidden large-scale molecular component revealed in absorption, but they do highlight the robustness of the chemistry into regions where the density and column density are too low to produce much rotational excitation, even in CO. Bright CO lines around NRAO150 most probably reflect the variation of a chemical process, i.e. the C+-CO conversion. However, the ultimate cause of the variations of this chemical process in such a limited field of view remains uncertain.

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