Mapping the interstellar medium in galaxies with Herschel
Autor: | Eales, SA, Smith, MWL, Wilson, CD, Bendo, GJ, Cortese, L, Pohlen, M, Boselli, A, Gomez, HL, Auld, R, Baes, Maarten, Barlow, MJ, Bock, JJ, Bradford, M, Buat, V, Castro-Rodriguez, N, Chanial, P, Charlot, S, Ciesla, L, Clements, DL, Cooray, A, Cormier, D, Davies, JI, Dwek, E, Elbaz, D, Galametz, M, Galliano, F, Gear, WK, Glenn, J, Griffin, M, Hony, S, Isaak, KG, Levenson, LR, Lu, N, Madden, S, O'Halloran, B, Okumura, K, Oliver, S, Page, MJ, Panuzzo, P, Papageorgiou, A, Parkin, TJ, Perez-Fournon, I, Rangwala, N, Rigby, EE, Roussel, H, Rykala, A, Sacchi, N, Sauvage, M, Schulz, B, Schirm, MRP, Spinoglio, L, Srinivasan, S, Stevens, JA, Symeonidis, M, Trichas, M, Vaccari, M, Vigroux, L, Wozniak, H, Wright, GS, Zeilinger, WW |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
abundances [ISM]
STAR-FORMATION LAW ISM [galaxies] extinction Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena CLOUD MASSES Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ATLAS I MOLECULAR GAS spiral [galaxies] Physics and Astronomy NEARBY GALAXIES dust COLD DUST EMISSION SPIRAL GALAXIES Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
Zdroj: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 |
Popis: | The standard method of mapping the interstellar medium in a galaxy, by observing the molecular gas in the CO 1-0 line and the atomic gas in the 21-cm line, is largely limited with current telescopes to galaxies in the nearby universe. In this letter, we use SPIRE observations of the galaxies M99 and M100 to explore the alternative approach of mapping the interstellar medium using the continuum emission from the dust. We have compared the methods by measuring the relationship between the star-formation rate and the surface density of gas in the galaxies using both methods. We find the two methods give relationships with a similar dispersion, confirming that observing the continuum emission from the dust is a promising method of mapping the interstellar medium in galaxies. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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