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近星系中的高温热分子气体和温热尘埃

Dense and Warm Molecular Gas and Warm Dust in Nearby Galaxies

Satoki Matsushita, Ryohei Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno, Tomoka Tosaki, Baltasar Vila-Vilaró

摘要:

我们使用Nobeyama 45 m望远镜对附近的星暴星系和非星暴星系进行了12 CO(1 -0)、13 CO(1-0)和HCN(1-0)单碟观测(光束尺寸~14”-18”)。从所有七个星暴星系中检测到13 CO(1-0)和HCN(1-0)发射,两条谱线的强度相似(即,比率大约为1)。另一方面,对于非星暴星系的情况下,13 CO(1-0)的发射被检测到的所有三个星系,而HCN(1-0)的发射是微弱的或没有检测到在过去的观测。这一结果表明,星暴星系样品中HCN/13 CO的强度比(~1.15 ± 0.32)明显大于非星暴星系样品(<0.31 ± 0.14)。大速度梯度模型表明,星暴星系中的分子气体比非星暴星系中的分子气体具有更高的温度和密度;光子主导区模型表明,星暴星系中的分子气体比非星暴星系中的分子气体受到更强的星际辐射场的照射。此外,HCN/13 CO在我们的样本星系表现出很强的相关性与IRAS 25微米的流量比。致密分子气体和恒星形成活动之间存在着很强的相关性,这是一个公认的事实,但我们的研究结果表明,分子气体温度也是一个重要的参数。

英文摘要:

We performed 12CO(1-0), 13CO(1-0), and HCN(1-0) single-dish observations (beam size ~14"-18") toward nearby starburst and non-starburst galaxies using the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. The 13CO(1-0) and HCN(1-0) emissions were detected from all the seven starburst galaxies, with the intensities of both lines being similar (i.e., the ratios are around unity). On the other hand, for case of the non-starburst galaxies, the 13CO(1-0) emission was detected from all three galaxies, while the HCN(1-0) emission was weakly or not detected in past observations. This result indicates that the HCN/13CO intensity ratios are significantly larger (~1.15+-0.32) in the starburst galaxy samples than the non-starburst galaxy samples (<0.31+-0.14). The large-velocity-gradient model suggests that the molecular gas in the starburst galaxies have warmer and denser conditions than that in the non-starburst galaxies, and the photon-dominated-region model suggests that the denser molecular gas is irradiated by stronger interstellar radiation field in the starburst galaxies than that in the non-starburst galaxies. In addition, HCN/13CO in our sample galaxies exhibit strong correlations with the IRAS 25 micron flux ratios. It is a well established fact that there exists a strong correlation between dense molecular gas and star formation activities, but our results suggest that molecular gas temperature is also an important parameter.

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