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红移搜索接收机3 mm波段10个Galerkin谱

The Redshift Search Receiver 3 mm Wavelength Spectra of 10 Galaxies

Ronald L. Snell, Gopal Narayanan, Min S. Yun, Mark Heyer, Aeree Chung, William M. Irvine, Neal R. Erickson, Guilin Liu

摘要:

在五学院射电天文台使用一种新的、非常宽频带的接收机和光谱仪,称为红移搜索接收机(RSR),获得了10个星系的3毫米波长光谱。RSR的瞬时带宽为37 GHz,覆盖74至111 GHz的频率,频谱分辨率为31 MHz(~100 km/s)。在FCRAO 14 m望远镜上对RSR进行测试时,获得了NGC 253,Maffei 2,NGC 1068,IC 342,M82,NGC 3079,NGC 3690,NGC 4258,Arp 220和NGC 6240中心区的完整3 mm光谱。在RSR覆盖的波段内,检测到来自14种不同原子和分子的20条谱线。同时适合每个星系的光谱的基础上,一些关键的分子线比推导出来。一个简单的模型,假设发射来自银河系般的巨型非分子云核心的合奏,可以充分拟合所观察到的线比使用分子丰度的基础上银河系分子云核心。某些谱线比率的变化,例如13 CO/HCN和HCO+/HCN,可以用星系间分子气体的平均密度变化来解释。然而,NGC 3690,NGC 4258和NGC 6240显示出非常大的HCO+/HCN比,并且需要HCO+相对于HCN的显著丰度增强,这可能是由于接近活动星系核活动。最后,我们估算了致密分子气体的质量,并推断在这些星系的中心区域,25- 85%的分子气体的密度必须大于10^4 cm^-3。

英文摘要:

The 3 mm wavelength spectra of 10 galaxies have been obtained at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory using a new, very broadband receiver and spectrometer, called the Redshift Search Receiver (RSR). The RSR has an instantaneous bandwidth of 37 GHz covering frequencies from 74 to 111 GHz, and has a spectral resolution of 31 MHz (~100 km/s). During tests of the RSR on the FCRAO 14 m telescope the complete 3 mm spectra of the central regions of NGC 253, Maffei 2, NGC1068, IC 342, M82, NGC 3079, NGC 3690, NGC 4258, Arp 220 and NGC 6240 were obtained. Within the wavelength band covered by the RSR, 20 spectral lines from 14 different atomic and molecular species were detected. Based on simultaneous fits to the spectrum of each galaxy, a number of key molecular line ratios are derived. A simple model which assumes the emission arises from an ensemble of Milky Way-like Giant Nolecular Cloud cores can adequately fit the observed line ratios using molecular abundances based on Galactic molecular cloud cores. Variations seen in some line ratios, such as 13CO/HCN and HCO+/HCN, can be explained if the mean density of the molecular gas varies from galaxy to galaxy. However, NGC 3690, NGC 4258 and NGC 6240 show very large HCO+/HCN ratios and require significant abundance enhancement of HCO+ over HCN, possible due to the proximity to active galactic nucleus activity. Finally, the mass of dense molecular gas is estimated and we infer that 25-85 % of the total molecular gas in the central regions of these galaxies must have densities greater than 10^4 cm^-3.

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