Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Petric, Andreea O.1,2; Armus, Lee3; Flagey, Nicolas2; Guillard, Pierre4; Howell, Justin3; Inami, Hanae5; Charmandaris, Vassillis6,7; Evanss, Aaron8,9; Stierwalt, Sabrina8,9; Diaz-Santos, Tanio3,10
刊名ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
2018-12-01
卷号156期号:6页码:24
关键词galaxies: active galaxies: interactions galaxies: ISM galaxies: starburst
ISSN号0004-6256
DOI10.3847/1538-3881/aaca35
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文献子类Article
英文摘要

Mid-infrared molecular hydrogen (H-2) emission is a powerful cooling agent in galaxy mergers and in radio galaxies; it is a potential key tracer of gas evolution and energy dissipation associated with mergers, star formation, and accretion onto supermassive black holes. We detect mid-IR H-2 line emission in at least one rotational transition in 91% of the 214 Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs) observed with Spitzer as part of the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey. We use H-2 excitation diagrams to estimate the range of masses and temperatures of warm molecular gas in these galaxies. We find that LIRGs in which the IR emission originates mostly from the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have about 100 K higher H-2 mass-averaged excitation temperatures than LIRGs in which the IR emission originates mostly from star formation. Between 10% and 15% of LIRGs have H-2 emission lines that are sufficiently broad to be resolved or partially resolved by the high-resolution modules of Spitzer's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). Those sources tend to be mergers and contain AGN. This suggests that a significant fraction of the H-2 line emission is powered by AGN activity through X-rays, cosmic rays, and turbulence. We find a statistically significant correlation between the kinetic energy in the H-2 gas and the H-2 to IR luminosity ratio. The sources with the largest warm gas kinetic energies are mergers. We speculate that mergers increase the production of bulk inflows leading to observable broad H-2 profiles and possibly denser gas.

学科主题天文学 ; 星系与宇宙学
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出版地TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND
资助项目NASA[1407] ; EU[PIRSES-GA-2012-316788] ; NSFC[11673028] ; National Key R&D Program of China[2017YFA0402704]
WOS关键词SPITZER-SPACE-TELESCOPE ; STAR-FORMATION ; STATISTICAL-METHODS ; ASTRONOMICAL DATA ; H-2 EMISSION ; UPPER LIMITS ; GAS ; CLASSIFICATION ; SPECTROGRAPH ; SIMULATIONS
WOS研究方向Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种英语
出版者IOP PUBLISHING LTD
WOS记录号WOS:000452546300001
资助机构NASA[1407] ; EU[PIRSES-GA-2012-316788] ; NSFC[11673028] ; National Key R&D Program of China[2017YFA0402704]
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/18608]  
专题云南天文台_丽江天文观测站(南方基地)
云南天文台_中国科学院天体结构与演化重点实验室
通讯作者Petric, Andreea O.
作者单位1.Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
2.Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Highway, Kamuela, HI 96743, USA
3.Infrared Processing & Analysis Center, MS 100-22, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
4.Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 96 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
5.Universite de Lyon, 92 Rue Pasteur, F-69007, Lyon, France
6.Department of Physics, University of Crete, GR-71003 Heraklion, Greece
7.IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, GR-15236, Penteli, Greece
8.Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
9.National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
10.Nucleo de Astronomia de la Facultad de Ingenieria, Universitad Diego Portales, Av. Ejercito Libertador 441, Santiago, Chile
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Petric, Andreea O.,Armus, Lee,Flagey, Nicolas,et al. Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies[J]. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL,2018,156(6):24.
APA Petric, Andreea O..,Armus, Lee.,Flagey, Nicolas.,Guillard, Pierre.,Howell, Justin.,...&Zhao YH.(2018).Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies.ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL,156(6),24.
MLA Petric, Andreea O.,et al."Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Nearby, Luminous Infrared Galaxies".ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 156.6(2018):24.
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