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偏振作为边缘星系中厚尘埃盘的探测:对NGC 891的应用

Polarization as a probe of thick dust disk in edge-on galaxies: application to NGC 891

Kwang-Il Seon

摘要:

辐射转移模型是为了理解边缘星系中的光学偏振而开发的,这些光学偏振甚至发生在几何上薄的尘埃盘之外,尺度高度为~ 0.2 kpc。为了再现垂直扩展的偏振结构,我们发现,它是必不可少的,包括一个几何厚的尘埃层的辐射转移模型,除了通常已知的薄尘埃层。该模型包括由于尘埃散射和二向色消光,这是负责在银河系中观察到的星际偏振的偏振。我们还发现,如果星际介质的块状,并在尘埃带的外部区域的垂直磁场的二向色消光被包括在辐射转移模型的偏振水平增强。预测的尘埃带外的偏振度被发现与NGC 891中观察到的偏振度(范围从1%到4%)一致。

英文摘要:

Radiative transfer models were developed to understand the optical polarizations in edge-on galaxies, which are observed to occur even outside the geometrically thin dust disk, with a scale height of ~ 0.2 kpc. In order to reproduce the vertically extended polarization structure, we find it is essential to include a geometrically thick dust layer in the radiative transfer model, in addition to the commonly-known thin dust layer. The models include polarizations due to both dust scattering and dichroic extinction which is responsible for the observed interstellar polarization in the Milky Way. We also find that the polarization level is enhanced if the clumpiness of the interstellar medium, and the dichroic extinction by vertical magnetic fields in the outer regions of the dust lane are included in the radiative transfer model. The predicted degree of polarization outside the dust lane was found to be consistent with that (ranging from 1% to 4%) observed in NGC 891.

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