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光离解区的尘埃处理.中红外辐射模拟

Dust processing in photodissociation regions - Mid-IR emission modelling

M. Compiegne, A. Abergel, L. Verstraete, E. Habart

摘要:

中红外光谱密集照明脊(或光解区,PDR)表明尘埃演变。这种演化必然通过光电加热或H_2生成等过程反映在气体的物理性质上。利用Spitzer红外光谱仪(IRS)和ISOCAM数据,我们研究了近距离已知的PDRs的中红外辐射。专注于带和连续粉尘排放,我们遵循他们的相对贡献,并分析他们的变化丰富的尘埃种群。为了解开尘埃演化和激发效应,我们使用一个尘埃排放模型,我们耦合到辐射转移。我们的尘埃模型再现了标准星际介质的消光和发射,我们用称为卷云的弥漫高银河纬度云来表示。我们把卷云中尘埃的性质作为参考,我们比较了更兴奋的地区,即马头星云和反射星云NGC 2023北的尘埃排放。我们表明,在这两个地区,辐射转移效应不能解释所观察到的光谱变化。我们解释这些变化的多环芳烃(多环芳烃,中红外波段载波)和非常小的颗粒(VSGs,中红外连续载体)之间的相对丰度的变化。我们的结论是,PAH/VSG丰度比是2.4倍小的马头星云的峰值发射比在卷云的情况下。对于NGC 2023 North,在PDR北部观察到光谱演变,我们得出结论,PDR的密集冷区的这一比率比其漫射照明部分低约5倍,其中灰尘特性似乎与卷云相同。我们的结论是,在PDR的灰尘似乎从“密集”到“弥漫”的属性在小空间尺度的密集照明脊。

英文摘要:

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of dense illuminated ridges (or photodissociation regions, PDRs) suggests dust evolution. Such evolution must be reflected in the gas physical properties through processes like photo-electric heating or H_2 formation. With Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) and ISOCAM data, we study the mid-IR emission of closeby, well known PDRs. Focusing on the band and continuum dust emissions, we follow their relative contributions and analyze their variations in terms of abundance of dust populations. In order to disentangle dust evolution and excitation effects, we use a dust emission model that we couple to radiative transfer. Our dust model reproduces extinction and emission of the standard interstellar medium that we represent with diffuse high galactic latitude clouds called Cirrus. We take the properties of dust in Cirrus as a reference to which we compare the dust emission from more excited regions, namely the Horsehead and the reflection nebula NGC 2023 North. We show that in both regions, radiative transfer effects cannot account for the observed spectral variations. We interpret these variations in term of changes of the relative abundance between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, mid-IR band carriers) and very small grains (VSGs, mid-IR continuum carriers). We conclude that the PAH/VSG abundance ratio is 2.4 times smaller at the peak emission of the Horsehead nebula than in the Cirrus case. For NGC2023 North where spectral evolution is observed across the northern PDR, we conclude that this ratio is ~5 times lower in the dense, cold zones of the PDR than in its diffuse illuminated part where dust properties seem to be the same as in Cirrus. We conclude that dust in PDRs seems to evolve from "dense" to "diffuse" properties at the small spatial scale of the dense illuminated ridge.

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