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星际星系晕前10千秒差距内的电离气体:金属离子分数

Ionized Gas in the First 10 Kiloparsecs of the Interstellar Galactic Halo: Metal Ion Fractions

J. Christopher Howk, S. Michelle Consiglio

摘要:

我们提出了几个硫离子在银河系温暖的电离介质(WIM)的电离分数的直接措施。我们获得了球状星团Messier 3 [(l,b)=(1,b)]中后渐近巨星分支星的高分辨紫外吸收线光谱。(42.2,+78.7); d=10.2 kpc,z=10.0 kpc]和梅西耶5 [(l,b)=(3.9,+46.8); d=7.5 kpc,z = +5.3 kpc],用哈勃太空望远镜和远紫外光谱探测器测量或限制S I,S II,S III,S IV,S VI的柱密度,H I。这些星系团还容纳毫秒微扰星,其色散测量给出了电子柱密度,我们由此推断这些方向上的H II柱。我们发现M3和M5视线的WIM中S+2的分数分别为x(S+2)= N(S+2)/N(S)= 0.33+/-0.07和0.47+/-0.09,其变化可能与位置有关。由于高电离态的数量可以忽略不计,我们得出结论S+和S+2占WIM中所有的S。我们扩展的方法来研究的离子分数在温暖和热的电离气体的银河系,包括高离子Si+3,C+3,N+4,和O+5。银河系中绝大多数的电离气体是温暖的(T ~ 10^4 K)和光电离的(WIM),或者非常热(T > 4x10^5 K)和碰撞电离的。银河系外电离气体的常见示踪剂O+5,仅占银河系总电离气体质量的不到1%。

英文摘要:

We present direct measures of the ionization fractions of several sulfur ions in the Galactic warm ionized medium (WIM). We obtained high resolution ultraviolet absorption line spectroscopy of post-asymptotic giant branch stars in the the globular clusters Messier 3 [(l,b)=(42.2, +78.7); d=10.2 kpc, z=10.0 kpc] and Messier 5 [(l,b)=(3.9, +46.8); d=7.5 kpc, z = +5.3 kpc] with the Hubble Space Telescope and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer to measure, or place limits on, the column densities of S I, S II, S III, S IV, S VI, and H I. These clusters also house millisecond pulsars, whose dispersion measures give an electron column density from which we infer the H II column in these directions. We find fractions of S+2 in the WIM for the M 3 and M 5 sight lines x(S+2) = N(S+2)/N(S) = 0.33+/-0.07 and 0.47+/-0.09, respectively, with variations perhaps related to location. With negligible quantities of the higher ionization states, we conclude S+ and S+2 account for all of the S in the WIM. We extend the methodology to study the ion fractions in the warm and hot ionized gas of the Milky Way, including the high ions Si+3, C+3, N+4, and O+5. The vast majority of the Galactic ionized gas is warm (T ~ 10^4 K) and photoionized (the WIM) or very hot (T > 4x10^5 K) and collisionally ionized. The common tracer of ionized gas beyond the Milky Way, O+5, traces <1% of the total ionized gas mass of the Milky Way.

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