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解开恒星形成星系中冷尘埃性质空间变化的本质

Untangling the Nature of Spatial Variations of Cold Dust Properties in Star Forming Galaxies

Allison Kirkpatrick, Daniela Calzetti, Robert Kennicutt, Maud Galametz, Karl Gordon, Brent Groves, Leslie Hunt, Daniel Dale, Joannah Hinz, Fatemeh Tabatabaei

摘要:

我们调查了20个本地恒星形成星系的远红外(IR)尘埃发射的关键洞察力附近的星系:远红外巡天与赫歇尔(KINGFISH)样本。我们使用斯皮策太空望远镜和赫歇尔太空天文台的图像模拟远红外/亚毫米光谱能量分布(SED)。我们使用两个温度修正的黑体拟合程序,逐个像素地计算冷尘埃温度(T(冷))和发射率(β)(每个像素的范围为0.1-3 kpc^2)。我们的拟合方法使我们能够通过从星系中心到外围的建模(物理尺度为~15-50 kpc,取决于星系的大小)来研究温度和发射率变化的解析性质。我们以两种方式拟合每个SED:(1)同时拟合T(冷)和β,(2)保持β常数并拟合T(冷)。我们将T(冷)和β与恒星形成率(由L(H α)和L(24)计算)、旧恒星星族的光度(通过L(3.6)追踪)和尘埃质量表面密度(通过500微米光度追踪,L(500))进行比较。我们发现SFR/L(500)和T(冷)之间有一个显着的趋势,这意味着硬紫外光子相对于尘埃量的通量显着有助于加热的冷,或扩散,尘埃成分。我们还看到了L(3.6)/L(500)和β之间的趋势,表明旧的恒星星族有助于加热远红外/亚毫米波长。最后,我们发现,当β保持不变时,T(冷)表现出强烈的径向下降趋势,说明远红外SED的形状在星系中径向变化,从而证实了Galametz等人(2012)中观察到的趋势几乎是样本大小的两倍。

英文摘要:

We investigate the far-infrared (IR) dust emission for 20 local star forming galaxies from the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-IR Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH) sample. We model the far-IR/submillimeter spectral energy distribution (SED) using images from Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory. We calculate the cold dust temperature (T(cold)) and emissivity (beta) on a pixel by pixel basis (where each pixel ranges from 0.1-3 kpc^2) using a two temperature modified blackbody fitting routine. Our fitting method allows us to investigate the resolved nature of temperature and emissivity variations by modeling from the galaxy centers to the outskirts (physical scales of ~15-50 kpc, depending on the size of the galaxy). We fit each SED in two ways: (1) fit T(cold) and beta simultaneously, (2) hold beta constant and fit T(cold). We compare T(cold) and beta with star formation rates (calculated from L(Halpha) and L(24)), the luminosity of the old stellar population (traced through L(3.6), and the dust mass surface density (traced by 500 micron luminosity, L(500)). We find a significant trend between SFR/L(500) and T(cold), implying that the flux of hard UV photons relative to the amount of dust is significantly contributing to the heating of the cold, or diffuse, dust component. We also see a trend between L(3.6)/L(500) and beta, indicating that the old stellar population contributes to the heating at far-IR/submillimeter wavelengths. Finally, we find that when beta is held constant, T(cold) exhibits a strongly decreasing radial trend, illustrating that the shape of the far-IR SED is changing radially through a galaxy, thus confirming on a sample almost double in size the trends observed in Galametz et al. (2012).

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