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We study the mid- to far-IR properties of a 24um-selected flux-limited sample (S24 > 5mJy) of 154 intermediate redshift (<z>~0.15), infrared luminous galaxies, drawn from the 5MUSES survey. By combining existing mid-IR spectroscopy and new…

We present mid-infrared spectra of six FeLoBAL QSOs at 1<z<1.8, taken with the Spitzer space telescope. The spectra span a range of shapes, from hot dust dominated AGN with silicate emission at 9.7 microns, to moderately obscured starbursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Farrah , T. Urrutia , M. Lacy , V. Lebouteiller , H. W. W. Spoon , J. Bernard-Salas , N. Connolly , J. Afonso , B. Connolly , J. Houck

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are some of the major dust components in the interstellar medium (ISM). We present our evolution models for the abundance of PAHs in the ISM on a galaxy-evolution timescale. We consider shattering of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ji Yeon Seok , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Ryosuke S. Asano

We present an atlas of Spitzer/IRS high resolution (R~600) 10-37um spectra for 24 well known starburst galaxies. The spectra are dominated by fine-structure lines, molecular hydrogen lines, and emission bands of polycyclic aromatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Bernard-Salas , H. W. W. Spoon , V. Charmandaris , V. Lebouteiller , D. Farrah , D. Devost , B. R. Brandl , Yanling Wu , L. Armus , L. Hao , G. C. Sloan , D. Weedman , J. R. Houck

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are believed to be the small-size tail of the interstellar carbonaceous dust grain population. Their vibrational emission is the most widely accepted source of the aromatic near-infrared features, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-21 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Laura Pérez , Ronald Maddalena , Anish Roshi

We present results on the variation of 7.7 micron Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission in galaxies spanning a wide range in metallicity at z ~ 2. For this analysis, we use rest-frame optical spectra of 476 galaxies at 1.37 < z <…

We report new properties of the 11 and 12.7 {\mu}m emission complexes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by applying a Gaussian-based decomposition technique. Using high-resolution \textit{Spitzer} Space Telescope data, we study in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 M. J. Shannon , D. J. Stock , E. Peeters

We present Spitzer observations of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1705 obtained as part of SINGS. The galaxy morphology is very different shortward and longward of ~5 microns: short-wavelength imaging shows an underlying red stellar…

We present the results of a computational study to investigate the infrared spectroscopic properties of a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules and their fully dehydrogenated counterparts. We constructed a database…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 C. J. Mackie , E. Peeters , C. W. Bauschlicher , J. Cami

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules have been long adjudged to contribute to the frequently detected distinct emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.2 and 12.7 {\mu}m with weaker and blended features distributed in the 3-20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Mridusmita Buragohain , Amit Pathak , Itsuki Sakon , Takashi Onaka

We measure IRAC colors of extended emission in several fields covering a range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes outside of star forming regions. We determine the nature of the Galactic diffuse emission in Spitzer/IRAC images by…

A combined mid-IR spectrum of five colliding-wind, massive, dust-producing Population I Wolf-Rayet (WR) binaries shows a wealth of absorption and emission details coming from the circumstellar dust envelopes, as well as from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 S. V. Marchenko , A. F. J. Moffat

We study a combined sample of 264 star-forming, 51 composite, and 73 active galaxies using optical spectra from SDSS and mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectra from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph. We examine optical and mid-IR spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , D. Schiminovich , M. O'Dowd , B. Bertincourt

We report the discovery of Lyman alpha emission from a galaxy at z=5.34, the first object at z>5 with a spectroscopically confirmed redshift. The faint continuum emission (m(8000A)=27 AB mag), relatively small rest-frame equivalent width of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arjun Dey , Hyron Spinrad , Daniel Stern , James R. Graham , Frederic H. Chaffee

This work presents theoretical calculations of infrared spectra of nitrogen (N)-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules with incorporation of N, NH and NH$_2$ using density functional theory (DFT). The properties of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-30 Akant Vats , Amit Pathak , Takashi Onaka , Mridusmita Buragohain , Itsuki Sakon , Izumi Endo

We present high-resolution observations of the 880 $\mu$m (rest-frame FIR) continuum emission in the z$=$4.05 submillimeter galaxy GN20 from the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI). These data resolve the obscured star formation in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. Hodge , D. Riechers , R. Decarli , F. Walter , C. L. Carilli , E. Daddi , H. Dannerbauer

Mixtures of polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been produced by means of laser pyrolysis. The main fraction of the extracted PAHs were primarily medium-sized, up to a maximum size of 38 carbon atoms per molecule. The use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 M. Steglich , C. Jäger , G. Rouillé , F. Huisken , H. Mutschke , Th. Henning

We examine the relation between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission at 8 microns and far-infrared emission from hot dust grains at 24 microns and from large dust grains at 160 and 250 microns in the nearby spiral galaxies NGC…

Together with gas, stars, and supermassive black holes, dust is crucial in stellar and galaxy evolution. Hence, understanding galaxies' dust properties across cosmic time is critical to studying their evolution. In addition to photometric…