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星际多环芳烃的长波长发射:表征旋转尘埃的贡献

The long-wavelength emission of interstellar PAHs: characterizing the spinning dust contribution

Nathalie Ysard, Laurent Verstraete

摘要:

普朗克和赫歇尔卫星不久将观测到冷尘埃颗粒在长波长下的发射,并对星际尘埃的性质提出新的限制。微波异常发射,提出是由于旋转的多环芳烃,应该有助于更好地定义这些物种。此外,了解天空异常发射的波动对于CMB研究至关重要。我们重点研究了星际多环芳烃在振转跃迁和转动跃迁中的长波长辐射。PAH的发射光谱从红外到微波范围内,并比较异常发射观测。为了模拟它们的长波长发射,我们把多环芳烃作为孤立系,并始终遵循其红外和旋转发射。我们考虑几个星际阶段,并讨论如何异常发射可能会限制他们的大小分布。我们的PAH排放模型占中红外光谱的弥漫星际介质和猎户座酒吧。对于λ <3 mm,PAH IR发射不再与辐射场强度(Go)成比例,这与光谱的中IR部分不同。在100 GHz处,这种排放占总粉尘排放量的不到10%。我们发现当Go<100和nH<100cm-3时,每个碳原子的自旋多环芳烃的宽带发射率是相当恒定的。观测到的异常发射英仙座分子云解释了我们的模型旋转PAH排放与标准丰度,支持多环芳烃的起源异常发射。带有Go的旋转尘埃发射率的行为提供了一个明确的测试,可以针对异常和尘埃中红外发射的观测进行测试。这些排放量的比较将提供星际多环芳烃的大小和/或电偶极矩的限制。

英文摘要:

The emission of cold dust grains at long wavelengths will soon be observed by the Planck and Herschel satellites and provide new constraints on the nature of interstellar dust. The microwave anomalous emission, proposed to be due to spinning PAHs, should help to better define these species. Moreover, understanding the fluctuations of the anomalous emission over the sky is crucial for CMB studies. We focus on the long wavelength emission of interstellar PAHs in their rovibrational and rotational transitions. The PAH emission spectrum from the IR to the microwave range is presented and compared to anomalous emission observations. To model their long wavelength emission, we treat PAHs as isolated systems and follow consistently their IR and rotational emissions. We consider several interstellar phases and discuss how the anomalous emission may constrain their size distribution. Our model of PAH emission accounts for the mid-IR spectra of the diffuse interstellar medium and of the Orion Bar. For lambda<3mm the PAH IR emission does not scale any more with the radiation field intensity (Go) unlike the mid-IR part of the spectrum. This emission represents less than 10% of the total dust emission at 100 GHz. We find the broadband emissivity of spinning PAHs per carbon atom to be rather constant for Go<100 and nH<100cm-3. Observations of anomalous emission in the Perseus molecular cloud are explained by our model of spinning PAH emission with a standard abundance, supporting PAHs as the origin of the anomalous emission. The behaviour of the spinning dust emissivity with Go provides a clear test that can be tested against observations of anomalous and dust mid-IR emissions. Comparison of these emissions will provide constraints on the size and/or electric dipole moment of interstellar PAHs.

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