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螺旋星系NGC 3628周围UV晕的性质

The nature of the UV halo around the spiral galaxy NGC 3628

Maarten Baes, Sébastien Viaene

摘要:

由于GALEX和Swift的深紫外观测,最近在星系周围发现了漫射紫外晕。根据紫外光的颜色,有人主张螺旋星系周围的紫外光晕是由于从盘发出的紫外线辐射和高纬度尘埃颗粒的散射造成的。详细的紫外辐射转移模型,考虑到散射和吸收可以解释的紫外线晕的形态,他们需要一个额外的厚尘埃盘旁边的传统薄盘的一半的星系在他们的样本。我们测试这样一个额外的厚尘埃盘是否同意在NGC 3628,一个边缘上的星系与一个厚尘埃盘的清晰签名观察到的红外发射。我们将远紫外辐射转移模型推广到全色模型。我们的模型,其中不包含微调,几乎可以完美地再现所观察到的光谱能量分布从紫外到毫米波长。这些结果证实了NGC 3628中的扩展紫外线发射是散射尘埃颗粒的解释,因此存在大量扩散的面外尘埃。然而,一个重要的警告是我们模型的几何简单性和非唯一性:具有不同几何设置的其他模型可能导致类似的光谱能量分布。更详细的辐射转移模拟,比较模型的结果,从紫外线到亚毫米波长的图像是一种方法来打破这种简并性,是紫外线偏振测量。

英文摘要:

Thanks to deep UV observations with GALEX and Swift, diffuse UV haloes have recently been discovered around galaxies. Based on UV-optical colours, it has been advocated that the UV haloes around spiral galaxies are due to UV radiation emitted from the disc and scattered off dust grains at high latitudes. Detailed UV radiative transfer models that take into account scattering and absorption can explain the morphology of the UV haloes, and they require the presence of an additional thick dust disc next the to traditional thin disc for half of the galaxies in their sample. We test whether such an additional thick dust disc agrees with the observed infrared emission in NGC 3628, an edge-on galaxy with a clear signature of a thick dust disc. We extend the far-ultraviolet radiative transfer models to full-scale panchromatic models. Our model, which contains no fine-tuning, can almost perfectly reproduce the observed spectral energy distribution from UV to mm wavelengths. These results corroborate the interpretation of the extended UV emission in NGC 3628 as scattering off dust grains, and hence of the presence of a substantial amount of diffuse extra-planar dust. A significant caveat, however, is the geometrical simplicity and non-uniqueness of our model: other models with a different geometrical setting could lead to a similar spectral energy distribution. More detailed radiative transfer simulations that compare the model results to images from UV to submm wavelengths are a way to break this degeneracy, as are UV polarisation measurements.

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