Star formation at a front - Far-infrared observations of AFGL 333

1979 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. L133 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A., Jr. Thronson ◽  
P. M. Harvey ◽  
I. Gatley
1991 ◽  
Vol 376 ◽  
pp. 636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold M. Butner ◽  
Neal J., II Evans ◽  
Daniel F. Lester ◽  
Russell M. Levreault ◽  
Stephen E. Strom

1987 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 483-494
Author(s):  
Marc L. Kutner

A variety of observations of molecular clouds outside the solar circle (mostly around R = 14 kpc) are reported. Maps of CO, 13CO (J = 1 → 0) and CO (J = 2 → 1) emission are discussed. Cloud sizes and masses range up to the GMC class. However, envelope kinetic temperatures are lower than those in GMCs in the molecular ring. Continuum observations, using the VLA at 6 cm and 20 cm, and far infrared observations, taken on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, suggest the presence of newly formed late O and early B stars.


1987 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 614-614
Author(s):  
R. Genzel ◽  
J. B. Lugten ◽  
M. K. Crawford ◽  
D. M. Watson

We report far-infrared observations of [0 I], [C II] and [O III] fine structure emission lines toward the nuclei of M82 and 7 other galaxies with a high rate of star formation. The far-infrared line emission is bright, contains about 0.5% of the bolometric luminosity in the central 60″, and is spatially concentrated toward the nuclei. In these galaxies between 10 and 30% of the interstellar gas near the nuclei is contained in a warm, atomic component. This atomic gas is probably located at the UV photodissociated surfaces of molecular clouds. The neutral gas in M82 has a temperature of ∼ 200 K, hydrogen density of ∼ 3 × 104 cm−3 and is very clumpy, indicating that the interstellar medium in this star burst galaxy is very different from that in the disk of our own galaxy. We discuss the implications of the infrared observations for the interpretation of mm molecular lines and for star formation at the nuclei of star burst galaxies.


2010 ◽  
Vol 521 ◽  
pp. A48 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Suzuki ◽  
H. Kaneda ◽  
T. Onaka ◽  
T. Nakagawa ◽  
H. Shibai

2001 ◽  
Vol 326 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.D. Karnik ◽  
S.K. Ghosh ◽  
T.N. Rengarajan ◽  
R.P. Verma

Author(s):  
J H Yoon ◽  
C L Martin ◽  
S Veilleux ◽  
M Meléndez ◽  
T Mueller ◽  
...  

Abstract We present deep far-infrared observations of the nearby edge-on galaxy NGC 891 obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The maps confirm the detection of thermal emission from the inner circumgalactic medium (halo) and spatially resolve a dusty superbubble and a dust spur (filament). The dust temperature of the halo component is lower than that of the disk but increases across a region of diameter ≈8.0 kpc extending at least 7.7 kpc vertically from one side of the disk, a region we call a superbubble because of its association with thermal X-ray emission and a minimum in the synchrotron scaleheight. This outflow is breaking through the thick disk and developing into a galactic wind, which is of particular interest because NGC 891 is not considered a starburst galaxy; the star formation rate surface density, 0.03M⊙ yr−1 kpc−2, and gas fraction, just $10\%$ in the inner disk, indicate the threshold for wind formation is lower than previous work has suggested. We conclude that the star formation surface density is sufficient for superbubble blowout into the halo, but the cosmic ray electrons may play a critical role in determining whether this outflow develops into a fountain or escapes from the gravitational potential. The high dust-to-gas ratio in the dust spur suggests the material was pulled out of NGC 891 through the collision of a minihalo with the disk of NGC 891. We conclude that NGC 891 offers an example of both feedback and satellite interactions transporting dust into the halo of a typical galaxy.


2022 ◽  
Vol 924 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Asada ◽  
Kouji Ohta

Abstract We search for Hα emitters at z ∼ 7.8 in four gravitationally lensed fields observed in the Hubble Frontier Fields program. We use the Lyman break method to select galaxies at the target redshift and perform photometry in the Spitzer/IRAC 5.8 μm band to detect Hα emission from the candidate galaxies. We find no significant detections of counterparts in the IRAC 5.8 μm band, and this gives a constraint on the Hα luminosity function (LF) at z ∼ 7.8. We compare the constraint with previous studies based on rest-frame UV and far-infrared observations using the correlation between the Hα luminosity and the star formation rate. Additionally, we convert the constraint on the Hα LF into an upper limit for the star formation rate density (SFRD) at this epoch assuming the shape of the LF. We examine two types of parameterization of the LF and obtain an upper limit for the SFRD of log 10 ( ρ SFR [ M ⊙ yr − 1 Mpc − 3 ] ) ≲ − 1.1 at z ∼ 7.8. With this constraint on the SFRD, we present an independent probe into the total star formation activity including dust-obscured and unobscured star formation at the Epoch of Reionization.


2004 ◽  
Vol 600 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray F. Campbell ◽  
Paul M. Harvey ◽  
Daniel F. Lester ◽  
David M. Clark

1983 ◽  
Vol 205 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Lightfoot ◽  
W. Cudlip ◽  
I. Furniss ◽  
W. M. Glencross ◽  
R. E. Jennings ◽  
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