Synthetic Observations of Carbon Lines of Turbulent Flows in Diffuse Multiphase Interstellar Medium
Abstract
We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal instability under the irradiation of UV photons with moderate visual extinction . Radiation field maps of C, C, and CO line emissions were generated by calculating the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (nonLTE) level populations from the results of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of diffuse ISM models. By analyzing synthetic radiation field of carbon lines of [\ion{C}{2}] 158 m, [\ion{C}{1}] (809 GHz), (492 GHz), and CO rotational transitions, we found a high ratio between the lines of high- and low-excitation energies in the diffuse multi-phase interstellar medium. This shows that simultaneous observations of the lines of warm- and cold-gas tracers will be useful in examining the thermal structure, and hence the origin of diffuse interstellar clouds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611874,
title = {Synthetic Observations of Carbon Lines of Turbulent Flows in Diffuse Multiphase Interstellar Medium},
author = {M. Yamada and H. Koyama and K. Omukai and S. Inutsuka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611874},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
16 pages, 10 figures : accepted for publication in ApJ. PDF version with high resolution figures is available (http://yso.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~ymasako/paper/ms_hires.pdf)