Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-08-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages including 5 figures; to appear in PASJ, Vol. 54, No. 5
Scientific paper
We propose a new empirical method to estimate the total far-infrared flux of galaxies from the spectral energy distribution (SED) at wavelengths lambda shorter than 100 microns. It is difficult to derive the total far-infrared luminosity from only the IRAS data, though it is one of the most important properties of galaxies. Observations by Infrared Telescope in Space (IRTS) indicate that the SED of the diffuse emission from the Galactic plane in this wavelength region can be derived from the 60 microns to 100 microns color. This empirical SED relation was improved in order to obtain a better fit to the Galactic plane data for I(60 microns)/I(100 microns) > 0.6, and applied to 96 IRAS galaxies for which ISOPHOT and KAO data are available at lambda > 100 microns. As a result, the empirical relation describes well the far-infrared (FIR) SED for a majority of the galaxies. Additionally, the total FIR flux for lambda longer than 40 microns is derived from the flux densities at 60 and 100 microns by using this model. For the 96 IRAS galaxies, the uncertainty in the total far-infrared flux of the present method is 26%. The present method is more accurate than the previous one widely used to derive the total infrared flux from the IRAS 60 and 100 microns data.
Nagata Hirohisa
Onaka Takashi
Shibai Hiroshi
Takeuchi Tsutomu T.
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