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M31中尘埃、气体和恒星形成率的关系

Relating dust, gas and the rate of star formation in M31

F. S. Tabatabaei, E. M. Berkhuijsen

摘要:

利用Spitzer卫星的观测资料,我们得到了45”分辨率下M31上尘埃温度和尘埃不透明度的分布。利用不透明度图和标准尘埃模型,我们对Ha辐射进行了去红处理,得到了M31的第一张去红Ha图。通过径向分布、像元相关性和小波互相关分析比较了沙尘、Ha、HI和H2的辐射特征。尘埃温度从中心附近的30 K急剧下降到大半径处的15 K。沿视线方向在Ha波长处的平均尘埃光学厚度约为0.7。尘气比的径向减小趋势与氧丰度的径向减小趋势相似。在<2kpc尺度上,冷尘埃辐射与中性气体辐射的相关性最好,暖尘埃辐射与电离气体辐射的相关性最好。Ha发射与70 μ m处发射的相关性略好于24 μ m处。在6 kpc <R<17 kpc的地区,总的SFR约为0.3Msun/yr。SFR与总气体之间的Kennicutt-Schmidt定律在R=7- 11 kpc的径向范围内具有1.30 ± 0.05的幂律指数,当R=11- 13 kpc时增加约0.3。中心区域H2的缺乏可能与HI的缺乏和尘埃的低不透明度/高温有关。由于SFR和SFE都与H2或总气体的表面密度没有很好的相关性,因此除了气体密度之外的其他因素在M31中大质量恒星的形成中一定起着重要的作用。1.1 Gyr的分子耗尽时间尺度表明,M31形成年轻大质量恒星的效率比M33低三倍。

英文摘要:

We derive distributions of dust temperature and dust opacity across M31 at 45" resolution using the Spitzer data. With the opacity map and a standard dust model we de-redden the Ha emission yielding the first de-reddened Ha map of M31. We compare the emissions from dust, Ha, HI and H2 by means of radial distributions, pixel-to-pixel correlations and wavelet cross-correlations. The dust temperature steeply decreases from 30K near the center to 15K at large radii. The mean dust optical depth at the Ha wavelength along the line of sight is about 0.7. The radial decrease of the dust-to-gas ratio is similar to that of the oxygen abundance. On scales<2kpc, cold dust emission is best correlated with that of neutral gas and warm dust emission with that of ionized gas. Ha emission is slightly better correlated with emission at 70um than at 24um. In the area 6kpc<R< 17kpc, the total SFR is ~0.3Msun/yr. The Kennicutt-Schmidt law between SFR and total gas has a power-law index of 1.30+-0.05 in the radial range of R=7-11kpc increasing by about 0.3 for R=11-13kpc. The lack of H2 in the central region could be related to the lack of HI and the low opacity/high temperature of the dust. Since neither SFR nor SFE is well correlated with the surface density of H2 or total gas, other factors than gas density must play an important role in the formation of massive stars in M31. The molecular depletion time scale of 1.1 Gyr indicates that M31 is about three times less efficient in forming young massive stars than M33.

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