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史密斯云中的电离气体

Ionized Gas in the Smith Cloud

Alex S. Hill, L. Matthew Haffner, Ronald J. Reynolds

摘要:

我们目前威斯康星州的H-阿尔法映射观测电离气体在史密斯云,一个高速云,洛克曼等人最近提出的是与银河系盘相互作用。我们的H-α图显示了最亮的H-α发射,0.43 \pm 0.04 R,与最亮的H I一致,而在H I强度小于最亮H I的0.1倍的区域中观察到稍微暗淡的H-α发射(0.25 \pm 0.02 R)。我们推导出电离质量为\gtrsim 3 \times 10^6 M_ \odot,与H I质量相当,H^+质量分布的面积比H I大得多。估计的银河系灭绝校正可以将这些值向上调整40%。H-α和[S II]线宽朝向最亮的发射区域限制气体的电子温度在8000 K和23000 K之间。在同一方向探测到[N II] λ6583,谱线比[N II] / H-alpha = 0.32 \pm 0.05,限制了云的金属丰度:对于典型的光电离温度8000-12000 K,氮丰度是太阳的0.15-0.44倍。这些结果进一步支持了史密斯云是新物质吸积到银河系上的说法。

英文摘要:

We present Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper observations of ionized gas in the Smith Cloud, a high velocity cloud which Lockman et al. have recently suggested is interacting with the Galactic disk. Our H-alpha map shows the brightest H-alpha emission, 0.43 \pm 0.04 R, coincident with the brightest H I, while slightly fainter H-alpha emission (0.25 \pm 0.02 R) is observed in a region with H I intensities < 0.1 times as bright as the brightest H I. We derive an ionized mass of \gtrsim 3 \times 10^6 M_\odot, comparable to the H I mass, with the H^+ mass spread over a considerably larger area than the H I. An estimated Galactic extinction correction could adjust these values upwards by 40 %. H-alpha and [S II] line widths towards the region of brightest emission constrain the electron temperature of the gas to be between 8000 K and 23000 K. A detection of [N II] λ6583 in the same direction with a line ratio [N II] / H-alpha = 0.32 \pm 0.05 constrains the metallicity of the cloud: for typical photoionization temperatures of 8000-12000 K, the nitrogen abundance is 0.15-0.44 times solar. These results lend further support to the claim that the Smith Cloud is new material accreting onto the Galaxy.

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