Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...393..126s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 393, no. 1, July 1, 1992, p. 126-133.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Cosmic Dust, Hydrogen Atoms, Interstellar Matter, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Galactic Clusters, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Spiral Galaxies, Star Formation
Scientific paper
The way in which the neutral atomic hydrogen and far-IR emission from galaxies relate to their environments is shown. It is found that isolated and interacting galaxies display a fairly narrow range of a temperature-adjusted 'H I/100-micron index', suggesting that atomic gas-to-dust ratios are relatively constant among most galaxies. Isolated normal galaxies are used to develop a fiducial standard for the H I/100-micron index, against which galaxies in other environments are compared. Galaxies undergoing tidal interactions prove to have the same value for the index once the proper temperature adjustment is applied according to their FIR color. Applied to clusters, the H I/100-micron index shows a clear discrimination between galaxies whose H I is 'stripped' or 'unstripped', implying that there is about 6 times less H I in stripped galaxies relative to the 100-micron-emitting dust. The stripped galaxies also appear to have a slightly lower mean dust temperature, which is surprising since the stripping process might be expected to remove preferentially cooler than average dust from the outer disk.
Schneider Stephen E.
Spitzak John G.
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