利用Herschel/SPIRE绘制星系中的星际介质
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2015-05-18 v1
摘要
通过观测CO 1-0谱线中的分子气体和21厘米谱线中的原子气体来绘制星系中星际介质的标准方法，目前望远镜主要局限于近邻宇宙中的星系。在这封信中，我们利用对星系M99和M100的SPIRE观测，探索了使用尘埃的连续谱发射来绘制星际介质的替代方法。我们通过测量星系中恒星形成率与气体面密度之间的关系来比较这些方法。我们发现这两种方法给出的关系具有相似的离散度，这证实了观测尘埃连续谱发射是绘制星系中星际介质的一种有前景的方法。
引用
@article{arxiv.1005.2113,
title = {Mapping the interstellar medium in galaxies with Herschel/SPIRE},
author = {S. A. Eales and M. W. L. Smith and C. D. Wilson and G. J. Bendo and L. Cortese and M. Pohlen and A. Boselli and H. L. Gomez and R. Auld and M. Baes and M. J. Barlow and J. J. Bock and M. Bradford and V. Buat and N. Castro-Rodriguez and P. Chanial and S. Charlot and L. Ciesla and D. L. Clements and A. Cooray and D. Cormier and J. I. Davies and E. Dwek and D. Elbaz and M. Galametz and F. Galliano and W. K. Gear and J. Glenn and M. Griffin and S. Hony and K. G. Isaak and L. R. Levenson and N. Lu and S. Madden and B. O'Halloran and K. Okumura and S. Oliver and M. J. Page and P. Panuzzo and A. Papageorgiou and T. J. Parkin and I. Perez-Fournon and N. Rangwala and E. E. Rigby and H. Roussel and A. Rykala and N. Sacchi and M. Sauvage and B. Schulz and M. R. P. Schirm and L. Spinoglio and S. Srinivasan and J. A. Stevens and M. Symeonidis and M. Trichas and M. Vaccari and L. Vigroux and H. Wozniak and G. S. Wright and W. W. Zeilinger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2113},
year = {2015}
}
备注
Astronomy and Astrophysics in press