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大麦云云HII区尘埃排放的Spitzer观测

Spitzer Observations of Dust Emission from HII Regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Ian W. Stephens, Jessica Marie Evans, Rui Xue, You-Hua Chu, Robert A. Gruendl, Dominique M. Segura-Cox

摘要:

大质量恒星可以通过辐射加热和冲击改变其周围星际尘埃颗粒的物理条件和性质。大麦云云(LMC)中的HII区域为研究恒星能量反馈对尘埃的影响提供了理想的场所,因为恒星可以被分辨出来,而且星系几乎面对面的方向使我们能够明确地将HII区域与它们的电离大质量恒星联系起来。斯皮策太空望远镜对大麦哲伦星云的巡天提供了所有HII区域的多波长(3.6至160 $μ$ m)光度数据。为了研究大质量恒星周围尘埃性质的演化,我们分析了LMC中两个经典HII区(N63和N180)和两个简单超气泡(N70和N144)的空间分辨红外尘埃辐射。我们产生的光度光谱能量分布(SED)的许多小的子区域为每个区域的基础上,它的恒星分布和星云的形态。我们使用DustEM粉尘排放模型拟合来表征粉尘性质。颜色-颜色图和模型拟合与辐射场(估计从光度和光谱调查)进行比较。强烈的径向变化的SEDs可以看到整个地区,反映了可用的辐射加热。在辐射场最高的地方,非常小的颗粒的排放量急剧增加,而多环芳烃(PAHs)似乎被破坏了。PAH的排放是最强的分子云的存在下,只要辐射场是低的。

英文摘要:

Massive stars can alter physical conditions and properties of their ambient interstellar dust grains via radiative heating and shocks. The HII regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offer ideal sites to study the stellar energy feedback effects on dust because stars can be resolved, and the galaxy's nearly face-on orientation allows us to unambiguously associate HII regions with their ionizing massive stars. The Spitzer Space Telescope survey of the LMC provides multi-wavelength (3.6 to 160 $μ$m) photometric data of all HII regions. To investigate the evolution of dust properties around massive stars, we have analyzed spatially-resolved IR dust emission from two classical HII regions (N63 and N180) and two simple superbubbles (N70 and N144) in the LMC. We produce photometric spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of numerous small subregions for each region based on its stellar distributions and nebular morphologies. We use DustEM dust emission model fits to characterize the dust properties. Color-color diagrams and model fits are compared with the radiation field (estimated from photometric and spectroscopic surveys). Strong radial variations of SEDs can be seen throughout the regions, reflecting the available radiative heating. Emission from very small grains drastically increases at locations where the radiation field is the highest, while polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) appear to be destroyed. PAH emission is the strongest in the presence of molecular clouds, provided that the radiation field is low.

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