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银河系弥漫电离气体的起源

On the Origin of Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Antennae Galaxy

Peter M. Weilbacher, Ana Monreal-Ibero, Anne Verhamme, Christer Sandin, Matthias Steinmetz, Wolfram Kollatschny, Davor Krajnović, Sebastian Kamann, Martin M. Ro… 展开作者

Peter M. Weilbacher, Ana Monreal-Ibero, Anne Verhamme, Christer Sandin, Matthias Steinmetz, Wolfram Kollatschny, Davor Krajnović, Sebastian Kamann, Martin M. Roth, Santiago Erroz-Ferrer, Raffaella Anna Marino, Michael V. Maseda, Martin Wendt, Roland Bacon, Stefan Dreizler, Johan Richard, Lutz Wisotzki

摘要:

“银河系”(NGC 4038/39)是距离我们最近的主要相互作用星系系统,因此经常被当作合并的原型。我们提出了这个系统的第一个全面的积分场光谱数据集,观察与MUSE仪器在ESO VLT。我们涵盖了这个系统中的两个区域,表现出最近的恒星形成:中央星系的相互作用和南部潮汐尾的尖端附近的区域。在这些领域中,我们探测HII区域并将电离气体扩散到前所未有的深度。大约15%的电离气体在以前的观测活动中没有被发现。这个新探测到的微弱的电离气体在中心合并的周围到处都是可见的,并且显示出了类似的结构。我们估计扩散气体分数约为60%的中心领域和10%的南部地区。我们能够表明,南部地区包含一个显着不同的人口的HII地区,显示较暗的光度。通过比较HII区域的光度与HST目录中的年轻星团在中央领域,我们估计,有足够的莱曼连续泄漏的合并,以解释我们检测到的扩散电离气体的量。我们比较莱曼连续逃逸分数的每个HII区域对电离参数敏感的发射线的比率。虽然我们没有发现这些属性之间的系统趋势,最极端的线比似乎是密度有界电离的强指标。外推莱曼连续谱逃逸分数到南部地区,我们得出的结论是,仅仅从年轻的恒星星族的电离气体的比较,没有必要调用其他电离机制比莱曼连续谱泄漏HII区的弥漫电离气体。

英文摘要:

The "Antennae Galaxy" (NGC 4038/39) is the closest major interacting galaxy system and therefore often taken as merger prototype. We present the first comprehensive integral field spectroscopic dataset of this system, observed with the MUSE instrument at the ESO VLT. We cover the two regions in this system which exhibit recent star-formation: the central galaxy interaction and a region near the tip of the southern tidal tail. In these fields, we detect HII regions and diffuse ionized gas to unprecedented depth. About 15% of the ionized gas was undetected by previous observing campaigns. This newly detected faint ionized gas is visible everywhere around the central merger, and shows filamentary structure. We estimate diffuse gas fractions of about 60% in the central field and 10% in the southern region. We are able to show that the southern region contains a significantly different population of HII regions, showing fainter luminosities. By comparing HII region luminosities with the HST catalog of young star clusters in the central field, we estimate that there is enough Lyman-continuum leakage in the merger to explain the amount of diffuse ionized gas that we detect. We compare the Lyman-continuum escape fraction of each HII region against ionization-parameter sensitive emission line ratios. While we find no systematic trend between these properties, the most extreme line ratios seem to be strong indicators of density bounded ionization. Extrapolating the Lyman-continuum escape fractions to the southern region, we conclude that just from the comparison of the young stellar populations to the ionized gas there is no need to invoke other ionization mechanisms than Lyman-continuum leaking HII regions for the diffuse ionized gas in the Antennae.

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