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成像弥散云:在CO中绘制的亮和暗气体

Imaging diffuse clouds: Bright and dark gas mapped in CO

H. S. Liszt, J. Pety

摘要:

我们希望与银河系弥漫云的度尺度结构的亚弧秒原子和分子的吸收光谱获得对河外连续背景源。为此,我们使用ARO 12 m望远镜在30'视场范围内以1'分辨率绘制了J=1-0的CO发射图,这些背景源被20个分子吸收线分量遮蔽,其中11个具有CO发射对应物。我们比较CO排放的地图,亚弧秒原子和分子的吸收光谱和星际红化的大尺度分布。主要研究结果如下:1)1 K.km/s水平上个体特征的典型覆盖因子为20%。2)CO-H2转换因子比平均值N(H2)/Wco = 2 e20 H2 cm^-2 /(K.km/s)低4-5倍,才能解释1 K.km/s水平以上CO发射的光度。小的转换因子和急剧变化的转换因子的弧分尺度主要是由于CO化学,不需要代表未解决的变化,红化或总柱密度。因此,像费米和普朗克一样,我们看到CO中的一些气体是暗的,而其他气体中的CO相对于H2来说是过亮的。由于每H2的发光度与亮和暗CO的表面覆盖因子之间的平衡,标准CO-H2转换因子总体上适用,但变化很大。

英文摘要:

We wish to relate the degree scale structure of galactic diffuse clouds to sub-arcsecond atomic and molecular absorption spectra obtained against extragalactic continuum background sources. To do this, we used the ARO 12m telescope to map J=1-0 CO emission at 1' resolution over 30' fields around the positions of 11 background sources occulted by 20 molecular absorption line components, of which 11 had CO emission counterparts. We compare maps of CO emission to sub-arcsec atomic and molecular absorption spectra and to the large-scale distribution of interstellar reddening. The main results are: 1) Typical covering factors of individual features at the 1 K.km/s level were 20%. 2) CO-H2 conversion factors as much as 4-5 times below the mean value N(H2)/Wco = 2e20 H2 cm^-2 /(K.km/s) are required to explain the luminosity of CO emission at/above the level of 1 K.km/s. Small conversion factors and sharp variability of the conversion factor on arcminute scales are due primarily to CO chemistry and need not represent unresolved variations in reddening or total column density. Hence, like FERMI and PLANCK we see some gas that is dark in CO and other gas in which CO is overluminous per H2. A standard CO-H2 conversion factor applies overall owing to balance between the luminosities per H2 and surface covering factors of bright and dark CO., but with wide variations.

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