Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-06-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
50 pages, 15 figures. To appear in the September issue of the Astronomical Journal. Some of the figures in this version have a
Scientific paper
10.1086/422925
We have analyzed HST and ground-based data to characterize the different gas phases and their interaction with the MYC in NGC 604, a GHR in M33. The warm ionized gas is made out of two components: a high-excitation, high-surface brightness H II surface located at the faces of the molecular clouds directly exposed to the ionizing radiation of the central SOBA; and a low-excitation, low-surface brightness halo that extends to much larger distances from the ionizing stars. The cavities created by the winds and SN explosions are filled with X-ray-emitting coronal gas. The nebular lines emitted by the warm gas experience a variable attenuation as a consequence of the dust distribution, which is patchy in the plane of the sky and with clouds interspersed among emission-line sources in the same line of sight. The optical depth at H alpha as measured from the ratio of the thermal radio continuum to H alpha shows a very good correlation with the total CO (1-0) column, indicating that most of the dust resides in the cold molecular phase. The optical depth at H alpha as measured from the ratio of H alpha to H beta also correlates with the CO emission but not as strongly as in the previous case. We analyze the difference between those two measurements and we find that <=11% of the H II gas is hidden behind large-optical-depth molecular clouds. We detect two candidate compact H II regions embedded inside the molecular cloud; both are within short distance of WR/Of stars and one of them is located within 16 pc of a RSG. We estimate the age of the main stellar generation in NGC 604 to be approx. 3 Myr from the ionization structure of the H II region. The size of the main cavity is smaller than the one predicted by extrapolating from single-star wind-blown bubbles.
Maíz-Apellániz Jesús
Mas-Hesse Jose Miguel
Perez Emanuelle
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