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矮星系IC 10中的多环芳烃

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the dwarf galaxy IC 10

D. S. Wiebe, O. V. Egorov, T. A. Lozinskaya

摘要:

利用斯皮策空间望远镜的红外观测资料,研究了IC~10不规则星系中星际介质的尘埃成分。尘埃在银河系中的分布进行比较的H $α$和[SII]的排放,中性氢和CO云,电离辐射源的分布。多环芳烃(PAH)在银河系中的分布是高度不均匀的,这些粒子的质量分数在总尘埃质量达到4%。多环芳烃倾向于避开明亮的HII区域,与原子和分子气体有很好的相关性。这种模式表明多环芳烃是在稠密的星际气体中形成的。我们建议,在低金属丰度的PAH丰度的显着减少,不仅在全球范围内观察(在整个星系的水平),但也局部(至少,在个别HII区域的水平)。我们比较的PAH质量分数的分布的高速功能的分布,我们已经检测到较早的翅膀的H $α$和SII线,在整个可用的星系面积。在IC~10星系中没有发现多环芳烃冲击破坏的确凿证据。

英文摘要:

Infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope archive are used to study the dust component of the interstellar medium in the IC~10 irregular galaxy. Dust distribution in the galaxy is compared to the distributions of H$α$ and [SII] emission, neutral hydrogen and CO clouds, and ionizing radiation sources. The distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the galaxy is shown to be highly non-uniform with the mass fraction of these particles in the total dust mass reaching 4%. PAHs tend to avoid bright HII regions and correlate well with atomic and molecular gas. This pattern suggests that PAHs form in the dense interstellar gas. We propose that the significant decrease of the PAH abundance at low metallicity is observed not only globally (at the level of entire galaxies), but also locally (at least, at the level of individual HII regions). We compare the distribution of the PAH mass fraction to the distribution of high-velocity features, that we have detected earlier in wings of H$α$ and SII lines, over the entire available galaxy area. No conclusive evidence for shock destruction of PAHs in the IC~10 galaxy could be found.

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