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麦哲伦流到晕界面:塑造我们最近的气态晕流的过程

The Magellanic Stream to Halo Interface: Processes that shape our nearest gaseous Halo Stream

Lou Nigra, Snezana Stanimirovic, J. S. Gallagher, Felix J. Lockman, David L. Nidever, Steven R. Majewski

摘要:

了解麦哲伦流(MS)和星系晕之间的界面处的流体动力学过程和条件对于理解MS以及其他相互作用星系中的气体尾至关重要。这些过程在相对较小的尺度上运作,不仅有助于形成这一团流,而且还影响中性气体动力学和质量从流到晕的转移,从而影响银河系的金属富集和气体补充。我们描述了一个观测计划,通过高分辨率测量HI发射,HI吸收和Halpha发射前所未有的灵敏度,这些过程的约束。方法将包括结构分析,寻找冷气体核心的团块和分析气体运动学,因为它过渡到晕。后一种方法包括先进的空间积分技术,深入探测中性气体,我们适用于一个新的HI地图从绿岸望远镜获得的MS最高灵敏度HI观测。我们证明,集成技术提高灵敏度,甚至进一步,从而允许检测明显的MS气体成分的密度接近的星系晕。

英文摘要:

Understanding the hydrodynamical processes and conditions at the interface between the Magellanic Stream (MS) and the Galactic halo is critical to understanding the MS and by extension, gaseous tails in other interacting galaxies. These processes operate on relatively small scales and not only help shape this clumpy stream, but also affect the neutral gas dynamics and transfer of mass from the stream to the halo, thus affecting metal enrichment and gas replenishment of the Galaxy. We describe an observational program to place constraints on these processes through high-resolution measurements of HI emission, HI absorption and Halpha emission with unprecedented sensitivity. Methods will include structural analysis, searching for cold gas cores in clumps and analyzing gas kinematics as it transitions to the halo. The latter method includes sophisticated spatial integration techniques to deeply probe the neutral gas, which we apply to a new HI map obtained from the Green Bank Telescope with the highest sensitivity HI observations of the MS to date. We demonstrate that the integration techniques enhance sensitivity even further, thus allowing detection of apparent MS gas components with density approaching that of the Galactic halo.

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