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NGC 3184和NGC 3938恒星形成区多波长光度的密度效应

Density effect on multi-wavelength luminosities on star formation regions in NGC 3184 and NGC 3938

A. Caldú-Primo, I. Cruz-González, C. Morisset

摘要:

我们分析了螺旋星系NGC 3184和NGC 3938中恒星形成的区域,这些区域来自多个波长的存档图像(NAV来自GALEX,H-alpha来自JKT和KPNO,8和24 μ m来自Spitzer,CO来自BIMA)。我们使用了聚类查找算法来提取恒星形成示踪剂的属性,这些示踪剂显示为每个波长的发射区域。我们得到了发光度和发射区体积之间的幂律关系,对于H-α和NUV发射,$L与V成正比;但对尘埃来说要快得多(8和24微米)和分子气体发射区的CO。这被解释为一个变化的发射率与大小的云,或者通过增加总密度,或者由于存在具有高局部辐射系数的高密度团块。虽然分子气体的cluerous性质可能并不令人惊讶,但中红外发射区的cluerous性质,可以解释为新形成的高到中等质量的恒星嵌入尘埃并加热它,在这两个星系中清楚地显示出来。

英文摘要:

We analyzed the regions of star formation in the spiral galaxies NGC 3184 and NGC 3938 from archive images at multiple wavelengths (NUV from GALEX, H-alpha from JKT and KPNO, 8 and 24 um from Spitzer, and CO from BIMA). We used the Clump Find Algorithm to extract the properties of the star forming tracers shown as emission regions at each wavelength. We obtained a power-law relation between the luminosity and the emission region volume that scales as expected, $L proportional to V, for the H-alpha and NUV emission; but much faster for the dust (8 and 24 um) and molecular gas emitting regions in CO. This is interpreted as a change on the emissivity with the size of the cloud, either by an augmentation of the overall density or due to the presence of high density clumps, with high local emissivity coefficients. Although the clumpy nature of molecular gas may not be surprising, the clumpy nature of mid-infrared emission regions, that could be explained by newly formed high to intermediate mass stars embedded into the dust and heating it, is clearly revealed in both galaxies.

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