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低金属量恒星形成的斯皮策观点:III。精细结构线、芳香特征和分子

The Spitzer View of Low-Metallicity Star Formation: III. Fine Structure Lines, Aromatic Features, and Molecules

Leslie K. Hunt, Trinh X. Thuan, Yuri I. Izotov, Marc Sauvage

摘要:

我们提出了低和高分辨率的斯皮策/IRS光谱,补充IRAC和MIPS测量,22个蓝色致密矮(BCD)星系。BCD样品的氧丰度范围很广[12+Log(O/H)介于7.4和8.3之间],星际辐射场(ISRF)的硬度也很高。IRS光谱为我们提供了一套丰富的诊断方法,以探测在金属丰度非常低的环境中恒星和尘埃形成的物理过程。我们发现,贫金属的BCD比富金属的星系具有更强的电离辐射:[OIV]发射大约是[Fe II]发射的4倍。它们也有更强烈的ISRF,如71至160微米的光度比所示。三分之二的样本(15个BCD)显示PAH特征,尽管PAH发射归一化到总红外(IR)光度的比例在贫金属BCD中(~0.5%)比富金属恒星形成星系(~10%)小得多。我们发现了几条证据表明,在低金属含量的小PAH载体的赤字,并将其归因于硬,强烈的ISRF的破坏,只是间接地与金属丰度。我们的IRS光谱揭示了各种H2旋转线,并且在我们的样本(8个BCD)中,超过三分之一的物体在四个最低阶跃迁中的一个或多个中具有>=3sigma的检测。BCD中的暖气体质量在10^3 ~ 10^8兆太阳能之间,可以与中性氢气质量相比较;相对于它们的总红外光度,一些BCD比SINGS星系含有更多的H2。

英文摘要:

We present low- and high-resolution Spitzer/IRS spectra, supplemented by IRAC and MIPS measurements, of 22 blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. The BCD sample spans a wide range in oxygen abundance [12+Log(O/H) between 7.4 and 8.3], and hardness of the interstellar radiation field (ISRF). The IRS spectra provide us with a rich set of diagnostics to probe the physics of star and dust formation in very low-metallicity environments. We find that metal-poor BCDs have harder ionizing radiation than metal-rich galaxies: [OIV] emission is roughly 4 times as common as [FeII] emission. They also have a more intense ISRF, as indicated by the 71 to 160micron luminosity ratio. Two-thirds of the sample (15 BCDs) show PAH features, although the fraction of PAH emission normalized to the total infrared (IR) luminosity is considerably smaller in metal-poor BCDs (~0.5%) than in metal-rich star-forming galaxies (~10%). We find several lines of evidence for a deficit of small PAH carriers at low metallicity, and attribute this to destruction by a hard, intense ISRF, only indirectly linked to metal abundance. Our IRS spectra reveal a variety of H2 rotational lines, and more than a third of the objects in our sample (8 BCDs) have >=3sigma detections in one or more of the four lowest-order transitions. The warm gas masses in the BCDs range from 10^3 to 10^8 Msun, and can be comparable to the neutral hydrogen gas mass; relative to their total IR luminosities, some BCDs contain more H2 than SINGS galaxies.

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