PHANGS-JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies
學年 111
學期 2
出版（發表）日期 2023-02-20
作品名稱 PHANGS-JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse Interstellar Medium with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies
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著者 Karin M. Sandstrom; Eric W. Koch; Adam K. Leroy; Erik Rosolowsky; Eric Emsellem; Rowan J. Smith; Oleg V. Egorov; Thomas G. Williams; Kirsten L. Larson; Janice C. Lee; Eva Schinnerer; David A. Thilker; Ashley T. Barnes; Francesco Belfiore; F. Bigiel; Guillermo A. Blanc; Alberto D. Bolatto; Médéric Boquien; Yixian Cao; Jérémy Chastenet; Mélanie Chevance; I-Da Chiang; Daniel A. Dale; Christopher M. Faesi; Simon C. O. Glover; Kathryn Grasha; Brent Groves; Hamid Hassani; Jonathan D. Henshaw; Annie Hughes; Jaeyeon Kim; Ralf S. Klessen; Kathryn Kreckel; J. M. Diederik Kruijssen; Laura A. Lopez; Daizhong Liu; Sharon E. Meidt; Eric J. Murphy; Hsi-An Pan; Miguel Querejeta; Toshiki Saito; Amy Sardone; Mattia C. Sormani; Jessica Sutter; Antonio Usero; and Elizabeth J. Watkins
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 944(2)
摘要 JWST observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission provide some of the deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies. If PAHs are well mixed with the atomic and molecular gas and illuminated by the average diffuse interstellar radiation field, PAH emission may provide an approximately linear, high-resolution, high-sensitivity tracer of diffuse gas surface density. We present a pilot study that explores using PAH emission in this way based on Mid-Infrared Instrument observations of IC 5332, NGC 628, NGC 1365, and NGC 7496 from the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS-JWST Treasury. Using scaling relationships calibrated in Leroy et al., scaled F1130W provides 10–40 pc resolution and 3σ sensitivity of Σgas ∼ 2 M⊙ pc−2. We characterize the surface densities of structures seen at <7 M⊙ pc−2 in our targets, where we expect the gas to be H i-dominated. We highlight the existence of filaments, interarm emission, and holes in the diffuse ISM at these low surface densities. Below ∼10 M⊙ pc−2 for NGC 628, NGC 1365, and NGC 7496 the gas distribution shows a "Swiss cheese"-like topology due to holes and bubbles pervading the relatively smooth distribution of the diffuse ISM. Comparing to recent galaxy simulations, we observe similar topology for the low-surface-density gas, though with notable variations between simulations with different setups and resolution. Such a comparison of high-resolution, low-surface-density gas with simulations is not possible with existing atomic and molecular gas maps, highlighting the unique power of JWST maps of PAH emission.
關鍵字 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons;Interstellar atomic gas;Interstellar medium;Astronomical simulations;Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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ISSN 2041-8205
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國別 USA
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