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We decompose the observed 7.7 $\mu$m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission complexes in a large sample of over 7000 mid-infrared spectra of the interstellar medium (ISM) using spectral cubes observed with the Spitzer/IRS-SL…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 D. J. Stock , E. Peeters

The search for large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with over 100 carbon atoms is crucial to resolving the origin of unidentified infrared emission (UIE) bands. These bands are commonly observed in nebulae and the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-22 Yi Shao , Yong Zhang , Xu-Jia Ouyang , Chuan-Peng Zhang

Electric dipole emission from rapidly spinning polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is widely believed as an origin of anomalous microwave emission (AME), but recently it encounters a setback due to the non-correlation of AME with PAH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Thiem Hoang , Lan Nguyen-Quynh , Vinh Nguyen-Anh , Yun-Jeong Kim

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission has been found in both starbursts and modestly starforming galaxies, but the relation between starforming activity and PAH luminosity is still a matter of debate. The different correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Haas , Christian Leipski , Ralf Siebenmorgen , Helmut Meusinger , Holger Drass , Rolf Chini

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

We present a new method to accurately describe the ionization fraction and the size distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) within astrophysical sources. To this purpose, we have computed the mid-infrared emission spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Maragkoudakis , E. Peeters , A. Ricca

Using physical models, we study the sensitivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission spectra to the character of the illuminating starlight, to the PAH size distribution, and to the PAH charge distribution. Starlight models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 B. T. Draine , Aigen Li , Brandon S. Hensley , L. K. Hunt , K. Sandstrom , J. -D. T. Smith

We study the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) bands, ionic emission lines, and Mid-infrared continuum properties, in a sample of 171 emission line galaxies taken from literature plus 15 new active galactic nuclei (AGN) Spitzer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dinalva A. Sales , M. G. Pastoriza , R. Riffel

Electric dipole emission arising from PAHs is often invoked to explain the anomalous microwave emission (AME). This assignation is based on an observed tight correlation between the mid-IR emission of PAHs and the AME; and a good agreement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Ysard , M. Juvela , L. Verstraete

Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is a category of Galactic signals that cannot be explained by synchrotron radiation, thermal dust emission, or optically thin free-free radiation. Spinning dust is one variety of AME that could be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Maximilian H. Abitbol , Bradley R. Johnson , Glenn Jones , Clive Dickinson , Stuart Harper

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules are widely considered as the preferred candidate for the carrier of the unidentified infrared emission bands observed in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes. In this paper we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yong Zhang , Sun Kwok

Infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope archive are used to study the dust component of the interstellar medium in the IC~10 irregular galaxy. Dust distribution in the galaxy is compared to the distributions of H$\alpha$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-15 D. S. Wiebe , O. V. Egorov , T. A. Lozinskaya

Context: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, largely known as PAHs, are widespread in the universe and have been identified in a vast array of astronomical observations from the interstellar medium to protoplanetary discs. They are likely to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Dwaipayan Dubey , Fabian Grübel , Rosa Arenales-Lope , Karan Molaverdikhani , Barbara Ercolano , Christian Rab , Oliver Trapp

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in astrophysical environments, as revealed by their pronounced emission features at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3, and 12.7 $\mu$m commonly ascribed to the C--H and C--C vibrational modes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Han Zhang , Charles M. Telesco , Thiem Hoang , Aigen Li , Eric Pantin , Christopher M. Wright , Dan Li , Peter Barnes

Context. Excess microwave emission, commonly known as anomalous microwave emission (AME), is now routinely detected in the Milky Way. Although its link with the rotation of interstellar (carbonaceous) nano-grains seems to be relatively well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Nathalie Ysard , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Laurent Verstraete , Anthony Peter Jones

We calculate weighted mosaic correlations between the recently published Planck 2015 foreground maps - both anomalous microwave emission (AME) maps, free-free emission, synchrotron radiation and thermal dust emission. The weighting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Sebastian von Hausegger , Hao Liu

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a ubiquitous component of the interstellar medium (ISM) in z~0 massive, star-forming galaxies and play key roles in ISM energy balance, chemistry, and shielding. Wide field of view, high…

Using 1 cm and 3 mm CARMA and 2 mm GISMO observations, we follow up the first extragalactic detection of anomalous microwave emission (AME) reported by Murphy et al. 2010 in an extranuclear region (Enuc. 4) of the nearby face-on spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Brandon Hensley , Eric Murphy , Johannes Staguhn

Cyano-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (CN-PAHs) may contribute to the emission detected in the 7 - 9 $\mu$m (1430 - 1100 cm$^{-1}$) and 11 - 15 $\mu$m (900 - 670 cm$^{-1}$) regions of astronomical IR spectra. Anharmonic quantum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-10 Vincent J. Esposito , Ryan C. Fortenberry , Christiaan Boersma , Louis J. Allamandola