Constraints on Cosmic Ray propagation from Radio Continuum data of NGC 2146

Details Constraints on Cosmic Ray propagation from Radio Continuum data of NGC 2146 Constraints on Cosmic Ray propagation from Radio Continuum data of NGC 2146

1996-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9603111v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 19 postscript figure, MNRAS-Latex (including the style-file), Accepted for publication in the Monthly Not. Roy. Astro

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We present high-sensitivity multi-frequency radio continuum observations of the starburst galaxy NGC~2146. We have fitted these data with a three-dimensional diffusion model. The model can describe the radio emission from the inner disk of NGC~2146 well, indicating that diffusion is the dominant mode of propagation in this region. Our results are indicating that NGC~2146 has recently undergone a starburst, the star forming activity being located in a central bar. The spatial variation of the radio emission and of the spectral index yield tight constraints on the diffusion coefficient $D_0$ and the energy dependence of the diffusion. Away from the central bar of the galaxy the radio emission becomes filamentary and the diffusion model was found to be a poor fit to the data in these regions; we attribute this to different transport processes being important in the halo of the galaxy.

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