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Utilizing deep NIRCam/WFSS data from JWST's FRESCO program, we spectroscopically survey the 3.3 $\mu m$ aromatic and 3.4 $\mu m$ aliphatic C--H stretching emission bands of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules in galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Jianwei Lyu , Xuejuan Yang , Aigen Li , Fengwu Sun , George H. Rieke , Stacey Alberts , Irene Shivaei

The observed variations in profiles of the interstellar aromatic infrared bands correlate with the object type and are indicative of PAH populations existing i n different sources. Spectroscopic studies on PAHs can provide tools for the int…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amit Pathak , Shantanu Rastogi

We report on mid- and far-IR Spitzer observations of 7 nearby dusty elliptical galaxies by using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) and Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). Our sample galaxies are known to contain an excessive amount of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Kaneda , T. Onaka , T. Kitayama , Y. Okada , I. Sakon

We report new correlations between ratios of band intensities of the 15-20 {\mu}m emission bands of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a sample of fifty-seven sources observed with Spitzer/IRS. This sample includes Large Magellanic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 M. J. Shannon , D. J. Stock , E. Peeters

We have measured mid-infrared (MIR) fluxes of 3C sources on images taken with ISOCAM onboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The photometric data were combined with existing photometry at other wavelengths to assemble the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wolfram Freudling , Ralf Siebenmorgen

We report the results of a search for emission features from interstellar deuterated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the 4um region with the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI. No significant excess emission is seen in 4.3-4.7um…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Takashi Onaka , Tamami I. Mori , Itsuki Sakon , Ryou Ohsawa , Hidehiro Kaneda , Yoko Okada , Masahiro Tanaka

We combined mapping-mode mid-infrared Spitzer spectra with complementary infrared imaging to perform a spatially resolved study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission from the central regions of 66 nearby galaxies, roughly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-13 Lulu Zhang , Luis C. Ho , Aigen Li

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are key dust components in galaxies and play a fundamental role in the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their response to AGN feedback remains debated. We present a spatially resolved…

We use archival data from the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) to map the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) 3.3 $\mu$m emission feature and analyze its correlation with AME in 98 compact sources identified by the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Danielle Sponseller , David T. Chuss , Brandon Hensley , Alan Kogut

A majority of early-type galaxies contain interstellar dust, yet the origin of this dust, and why the dust sometimes exhibits unusual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ratios, remains a mystery. If the dust is internally produced, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Gregory V. Simonian , Paul Martini

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are commonly used as proxies for star formation, molecular gas content, and other interstellar medium (ISM) properties in our Galaxy and other galaxies. Given their abundance and brightness,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-24 Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

Because the 8 {\mu}m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission has been found to correlate with other well-known star formation tracers, it has widely been used as a star formation rate (SFR) tracer. There are, however, studies that…

Spitzer 'hidden' observations of the background are used to construct a catalog of 4,090 spectra and examine the signature of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules and their connection to extinction by dust. A strong positive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 Christiaan Boersma , Jesse D. Bregman , Louis J. Allamandola , Pasquale Temi , Alexandros Maragkoudakis

Low spectral resolution (delta lambda/lambda ~ 50) mid-infrared observations with high angular resolution (0.3--0.5'') using the Long Wavelength Spectrometer on the Keck I Telescope are reported of the nuclei of five highly luminous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. T. Soifer , G. Neugebauer , K. Matthews , E. Egami , A. J. Weinberger

We have conducted a sensitivity analysis on the mid-infrared spectral decomposition of galaxies and the modeling of the PAH emission spectrum with the NASA Ames PAH Infrared Spectroscopic Database (PAHdb) to assess the variance on the…

We present mid-infrared to optical properties of 22 representative irregular galaxies: 18 Im, 3 BCDs, and one Sm. The mid-IR is based on images from the Spitzer Space Telescope archives. The 3.6 and 4.5 micron bands and the UBVJHK images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Emily Martin

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules, ubiquitously seen in the interstellar medium (ISM) of our own and external galaxies, might have been incorporated into comets if they are formed from relatively unprocessed interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aigen Li

We present recent UV laboratory spectra of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and explore the potential of these molecules as carriers of the DIBs. From a detailed comparison of gas-phase and Ne-matrix absorption spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Gredel , Y. Carpentier , G. Rouille , M. Steglich , F. Huisken , Th. Henning

We have carried out a detailed analysis of the 3.4 micron spectral feature arising from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), using JWST archival data. For the first time in an external galaxy (NGC 6240), we have identified two distinct…