Local Heating in the Galactic Center Western Arc

Details Local Heating in the Galactic Center Western Arc Local Heating in the Galactic Center Western Arc

Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aj....125.1345m&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, Volume 125, Issue 3, pp. 1345-1351.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Ism: Dust, Extinction, Galaxy: Center, Galaxy: Stellar Content, Infrared Radiation

Scientific paper

We present arcsecond resolution, 10.8, 11.7, and 18.2 μm images of the central few parsecs of the Galaxy. These images show for the first time the clumpiness of the dust in the western arc. The 11.7 and 18.2 μm images of part of the western arc were used to evaluate the dust temperature and optical depth distribution of this region. We see several mid-infrared emission peaks that coincide with dust temperature peaks and regions of low optical depth, and we infer the presence of embedded sources in the western arc. Minimum luminosity estimates for two of these sources (5×104 Lsolar and 2×104 Lsolar) suggest that the circumnuclear ring is being locally heated by relatively young stars.

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